New House Speaker Mike Johnson faces immediate challenges to keep the government open and shuttle U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Capitol Hill on Thursday. New House Speaker Mike Johnson faces immediate challenges to keep the government open, shuttle U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel and approve funding for federal agencies, a pivotal test for a relatively inexperienced speaker who has focused more on social issues than on economic policy during most of his career on Capitol Hill.
“It is a trial by fire. He’s a relatively new member of Congress. He doesn’t have an enormous track record,” said Alex Nowrasteh, vice president of economic and social policy studies at the conservative Cato Institute. “He’s going to face immediate challenges that are going to show quite quickly whether he can be an effective speaker.”
Those goals, though, run counter to one another, experts say. Extending the Trump tax cuts would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit by 2033, according to“I don’t think anybody can be taken really seriously if they say that they want to extend those tax cuts, add more on top of them, and also somehow say that they care about the deficit,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Johnson on Thursday night said he told the Biden administration that House Republicans preferred to “bifurcate” funding for Israel and Ukraine, rather than consider them in a single piece of legislation, posing a possible hurdle for the Ukraine aid, which many House Republicans oppose.“The American people are demanding some real accountability for the use of those dollars,” he told Fox’s Sean Hannity.
“To a certain extent when I voted for it in the past, even I didn’t like it,” he added. “My attitude was … I didn’t want to vote yes, but it puts the Biden administration in a stronger position if a bunch of Republicans say we’re united.” That’s where Republican lawmakers said they had the most faith in Johnson. He gained popularity among the conference during his candidacy for his ability to bring the fractious group together and unite the party’s Trump wing with Republicans hailing from districts Biden carried in the 2020 election.
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