Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) stated on Monday that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should lay out his plan to ship on President-elect Trump’s agenda if he desires to safe her vote for speaker.
In an interview on Fox Information’s “Fox and Friends,” Spartz stated she is Johnson’s “track record” and thinks “unfortunately we will not be able to deliver on President Trump’s agenda … if we don’t have a speaker with courage, vision and a plan.”
“If Speaker Johnson wants to be speaker, then he needs to lay out that plan and commit to that plan, not like what he did last year. He committed on the House floor to have a fiscal commission so we have plan for debt ceiling increase, which President Trump is right about, we have no plan. He was afraid to put it on the floor. He was afraid to put budget on the floor,” Spartz stated.
“Except post office bill, we could not accomplish anything,” she continued. “So I can give him a chance, but I would like to hear from him, how he’s going to be delivering this agenda and what plan he has, and he hasn’t been doing it.”
The interview was carried out earlier than Trump publicly threw his help behind Johnson’s speakership bid.
“I understand why President Trump is endorsing Speaker Johnson as he did Speaker Ryan, which is definitely important,” Spartz posted on the social platform X following that improvement. “However, we still need to get assurances that @SpeakerJohnson won’t sell us out to the swamp.”
She shared a hyperlink to an article on Trump endorsing Ryan and late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2016 alongside the submit.
In a press release launched Monday, Spartz equally laid out her necessities for Johnson to earn her vote, saying the subsequent speaker should commit publicly to “at least temporary structures” for authorizations, reconciliation offset insurance policies and spending audits.
“The current STRUCTURES, with their perverse incentives, have not been working for decades and will not suddenly start working. We must have a vision and a concrete PLAN to deliver on President Trump’s agenda for the American people, which I have not seen from our current speaker despite countless discussions and public promises,” she wrote in her assertion.
Johnson, who wants 218 votes for speaker, can’t afford to lose help from any extra of the 219 Republican Home members. Democrats have made clear they might not again Johnson’s bid, and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has come out towards Johnson for speaker.
Within the interview, Spartz stated she was assured there can be a speaker by Trump’s inauguration and stated she is aware of of different members who may very well be within the job, if Johnson fails to get the mandatory votes.
