{"id":6250,"date":"2024-12-24T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2024-12-24T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:09:13","slug":"trump-says-hes-confident-mike-johnson-will-remain-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He\u2019s Confident Mike Johnson Will Remain Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that House Speaker Mike Johnson will \u201ceasily remain speaker\u201d in the next Congress if he \u201cacts decisively and tough\u201d and avoids \u201call of the traps being set by Democrats\u201d in the spending package.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6251\" src=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/471193513_1075857691222194_5420427597384477367_n-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/471193513_1075857691222194_5420427597384477367_n-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/471193513_1075857691222194_5420427597384477367_n-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/471193513_1075857691222194_5420427597384477367_n-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/471193513_1075857691222194_5420427597384477367_n.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with the president-elect Thursday morning, just hours after the bipartisan deal to prevent a partial government shutdown collapsed. \u201cAnybody that supports a bill that doesn\u2019t take care of the Democrat quicksand known as the debt ceiling should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-mike-johnson-easily-remain-speaker-he-acts-decisively-tough-spending-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cproductive conversation.\u201d He expressed confidence that they would \u201cbe able to solve some problems here\u201d and committed to \u201cworking on it\u201d further.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>However, President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that he believes Johnson will \u201ceasily\u201d retain his role as speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 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,\u201d Trump told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker vote is set for Jan. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Two Democrats \u2014 Reps. Kathy Castor, Fla., and Marie Gleusenkamp Perez, Wash \u2014 broke ranks and supported the bill, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/heres-list-38-republicans-who-defied-trump-voting-no-failed-spending-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The failed vote in Congress followed two days of infighting among lawmakers over a path forward on government spending\u2014a battle that also drew in President-elect Donald Trump and his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the national debt has surpassed $36 trillion, with the deficit exceeding $1.8 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that House Speaker Mike Johnson will \u201ceasily remain speaker\u201d in the next Congress if he \u201cacts decisively and tough\u201d and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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