Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) said Mike Johnson (R-LA) has yet to earn her vote for House speaker because he is “not able to govern.”
A possible defection from Spartz comes as the Republican Party has a scant one-vote majority in the House. The new Congress will have its first day of session on Jan. 3, 2025, when a speaker election is also anticipated. A speaker will be needed to certify the 2024 election results on Jan. 6 ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
“Speaker Johnson is not able to govern and is not actually willing to commit to do his constitutional duty. I’m not asking him to do anything beyond what the Constitution asks,” Spartz said Monday on Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “We have Titanic on the crash course with the iceberg. And our country fiscally is going to have a disaster. This is the fault of Congress. This is…
