House Speaker Mike Johnson expresses confidence in the GOP's ability to govern despite a shrinking majority, but his claims are contradicted by the party's recent lack of accomplishments and reliance on Democratic support.
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on Fox News last week and expressed great optimism about his party and its prospects in the new Congress. \'Look, we\u2019re excited about this,' the Louisiana Republican declared. 'We\u2019ve demonstrated already that we can govern with a small majority.' He\u2019s been saying that a lot lately.
Johnson is clearly aware that the GOP will have a vanishingly small majority in the new year, but the top Republican lawmaker on Capitol Hill keeps assuring the public that he and his party 'know how to govern with that small majority.'\Part of the problem with the claim is that recent history points in the opposite direction: As the current Congress prepares to wrap up, the House Republican majority has effectively no accomplishments to speak of, and Johnson has repeatedly had to rely on the Democratic minority to advance must-pass bills. But it\u2019s not just the recent past that contradicts the House speaker\u2019s boasts; it\u2019s also the present. The Washington Post summarized where things stand nicely: It\u2019s a story with several moving parts, so let\u2019s unpack this. Didn\u2019t the parties already agree to a bipartisan deal? Yes. After several weeks of uncertainty, Democratic and Republican leaders — from both chambers — announced a compromise package that would prevent a government shutdown, and extend the next deadline until March. Isn\u2019t this what most Republicans wanted? Sort of. Johnson and his leadership team had to decide whether to pursue a spending package that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year in late September or a stopgap bill — called a 'continuing resolution' (or 'CR') — that would keep the lights on until March. Rank-and-file GOP lawmakers wanted the latter, assuming that the Trump White House and Republican-led Congress would be able to write a better bil
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