Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) lashed out at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Friday morning, saying he “dragged” President-elect Trump into conversations across the spending invoice as the specter of a authorities shutdown looms.
“It’s an example of failure of leadership of Speaker Johnson,” Spartz informed Fox Enterprise’s Maria Bartiromo. “Speaker Johnson dragged President Trump into this circus.”
“He completely mishandled it. He didn’t work with Republicans,” she added.
Her critique comes after Trump weighed in on the preliminary bipartisan spending invoice, pushing for a debt ceiling extension — or for it to be eradicated — as a way to obtain his blessing on the proposal. A second iteration of the invoice included a debt restrict hike, nevertheless it was finally rejected.
Spartz was certainly one of 38 Home Republicans who voted in opposition to the Trump-backed package deal.
“Speaker Johnson doesn’t discuss to Home Republicans more often than not,” she said in the interview Friday. “It’s virtually disrespectful, the place members, on the final second, have a 1500-page invoice they usually anticipate all of them to vote [a certain way].”
The most recent model of the spending proposal will embrace three separate payments addressing authorities funding, catastrophe reduction and the allocation of farm help. Notably, this model doesn’t embrace Trump’s request to extend the debt ceiling.
The Indiana Republican introduced earlier this month that she wouldn’t sit on any committees or caucus with GOP management however focus her time on furthering the mission of chopping authorities spending.
She additionally praised the president-elect’s newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). The advisory committee, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, has outlined targets of lowering the scale of presidency and slashing $2 trillion in spending.
Musk has additionally weighed in on the spending combat, unleashing a flood of misinformation on his social platform X in regards to the stopgap invoice that might have funded authorities via March. He, together with different Trump allies, have been credited with serving to to torpedo the unique stopgap invoice.
Lawmakers are anticipated to vote on the most recent invoice on Friday, as authorities funding is ready to lapse at midnight.
