President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that House Speaker Mike Johnson will “easily remain speaker” in the next Congress if he “acts decisively and tough” and avoids “all of the traps being set by Democrats” in the spending package.

Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with the president-elect Thursday morning, just hours after the bipartisan deal to prevent a partial government shutdown collapsed. “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,” Trump told the outlet.

Vice President-elect JD Vance met with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday night to discuss the potential continuing resolution. The two spoke for about an hour, with Vance describing the meeting as a “productive conversation.” He expressed confidence that they would “be able to solve some problems here” and committed to “working on it” further.

The turmoil over efforts to pass legislation to prevent a government shutdown has drawn attention to the upcoming speaker vote, as Johnson has faced challenges in maintaining full party unity, Fox noted further.

However, President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that he believes Johnson will “easily” retain his role as speaker.

“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 told Fox.

The speaker vote is set for Jan. 3, 2025.

A slimmed-down version of the once-massive 1,500-plus page spending bill also failed on Thursday. In all, 38 Republicans refused to approve the much smaller bill, which failed to pass the two-thirds muster by a vote of 174 to 235. A two-thirds majority was needed in order to suspend the rules to pass the bill without it going through a committee.

Two Democrats — Reps. Kathy Castor, Fla., and Marie Gleusenkamp Perez, Wash — broke ranks and supported the bill, Fox News reported.

The failed vote in Congress followed two days of infighting among lawmakers over a path forward on government spending—a battle that also drew in President-elect Donald Trump and his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Meanwhile, the national debt has surpassed $36 trillion, with the deficit exceeding $1.8 trillion.