Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's ability to pass legislation during President-elect Donald Trump's second term may be challenged due to the slim Republican majority.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson may face difficulty in unifying a slim Republican majority to pass legislation during President-elect Donald Trump 's second administration, according to several political analysts. While Johnson was reelected to the speakership on the first ballot, some House Republican critics have already signaled that his leadership could pose problems.
Trump enthusiastically endorsed Johnson before the speakership vote, calling him 'a good, hard working, religious man' who 'will do the right thing' to pass his second-term agenda. Trump's ability to quickly deliver on his legislative agenda will depend in large part on Johnson's ability to unify Republicans while controlling the lower chamber with the slimmest majority since the 1930s. During a Fox News appearance, Johnson insisted that House Republicans would 'immediately' be passing Trump's agenda, telling host Maria Bartiromo that he was 'jump-starting the agenda now, over the next two weeks, so that prepared and ready on day one'. Johnson said, 'We've been putting all the plays together, and figuring out the sequence of how we're going to run those plays,' adding, 'And we're really excited about it.' Republican strategist and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, during a CNN appearance shortly after Johnson won the speakership vote, stated, 'The math does not get better from here ... This is just the beginning. If this is supposed to be the easiest vote, it does not get easier from here.' Grant Davis Reheer, Syracuse University political science professor, commented to Newsweek, 'What we just saw with the vote for the Speaker will probably be an issue going forward.
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