By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-19 16:26:03 | Updated at 2024-12-29 06:47:12
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Donald Trump Raises Stakes for Mike Johnson to Save Embattled Speakership
Breitbart ^ | 12/19/2024 | Wendell Husebo
Posted on 12/19/2024 8:09:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President-elect Donald Trump provided a path on Thursday for House Speaker Mike Johnson to save his job as Speaker in the next Congress.
Johnson’s Speakership is in jeopardy after he tried to rush a spending measure packed full of pork, which drew ire from Trump and Elon Musk, the president-elect’s designated chief of axing government waste.
Trump’s roadmap for Johnson appears to set a series of reasonable demands, although achieving Trump’s requests might be difficult in the context of a potential government shutdown before Christmas.
Johnson will “easily remain speaker” if he “acts decisively and tough” and eliminates “all of the traps being set by Democrats” in the spending package, Trump told Fox News’s Brooke Singman. “Anybody that supports a bill that doesn’t take care of the Democrat quicksand known as the debt ceiling should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible,” he said.
“If the speaker acts decisively, and tough, and gets rid of all of the traps being set by the Democrats, which will economically and, in other ways, destroy our country, he will easily remain speaker,” Trump added.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: embattled; johnson; raises; save; speakership; stakes; trump
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All this drama before President Trump even takes oath of office. Demented. Do your Johnson.
To: ChicagoConservative27
He’s TOAST, Jim!..................
2 posted on 12/19/2024 8:11:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Johnson is simply too weak to be Speaker, and Trump knows it. This funding debacle was a total disgrace.
3 posted on 12/19/2024 8:12:20 AM PST by Starboard
To: ChicagoConservative27
the American people just voted no on business as usual
4 posted on 12/19/2024 8:14:01 AM PST by joshua c
My gut says that Johnson would prefer to be on the side of Team Trump, but he’ll need get it together and pass a clean, simple bill.
5 posted on 12/19/2024 8:15:59 AM PST by Gene Eric
To: ChicagoConservative27
He tried to rush the pork filled bs bill thru which is the exact opposite of what Trump has in mind for Americas future. The guy is a weak kneed hack and Trump will not have it
6 posted on 12/19/2024 8:15:59 AM PST by albie (U)
To: joshua c
Johnson “polly pockets” to the trash bin
7 posted on 12/19/2024 8:17:03 AM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
To: Gene Eric
If not, his days in the skybox with the boys is history.
8 posted on 12/19/2024 8:17:54 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Johnson makes McCarthy look good. to put that bill out - so anti-America First and such a cave to Ds - rather than fighting the fight the voters want - so off the reservation!
9 posted on 12/19/2024 8:19:29 AM PST by avital2
To: bigbob
10 posted on 12/19/2024 8:21:35 AM PST by Gene Eric
To: albie
Did he whip a clean CR? Not have the votes? They haven’t had a pay raise in 15 years but transparency ahead of the bill might have helped.
11 posted on 12/19/2024 8:22:27 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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