For centuries, the House of Representatives has played a unique role among US political leaders. The only party in parliament is explicitly given authority by the constitution leading the legislature.
Looking at the recent actions of Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican member, know that it is not like the autonomous head of the equivalent branch of the government, but as President Trump’s junior partner. I can’t.
In the past few weeks, Johnson has deleted Michael R. Turner, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and acting on the request of Mar-A-Lago. He followed Trump and the White House Vice President JD Vance. Step into the elliptical office that records Vans’s first moment. As if he was a white house staff.
“I told him and Trump that I had to capture the moment in the video,” Johnson wrote last week online in a whimsical caption on his viral video.
When Johnson and the Republican Republican members held an annual retreat at the Trump National Dral in Miami, the speakers praised Mr. Trump for his “beautiful club” and the president avoided it. A meeting that defends a legally suspicious movement.
“We are clearly supporting the President’s Initiative,” he said, “said Mr. Trump’s decision to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Bureau. He confronted the President’s decision to dismiss more than 12 inspectors who supervise the government, without giving the parliament a necessary 30 -day notice.
“I sometimes need a fresh appearance,” said Johnson.
Regarding the weekend war with Colombia, Johnson gave something that sounds like a neat encapsulation of his rule of rule, as the US military accepting U.S. military airplanes.
So, the past pretending of the party, which has a unique agenda that exceeds Trump’s priority, was firmly omitted. Even if the speakers of both parties are territories related to parliamentary privileges, it is a break with the past, even if it sometimes means to challenge your president.
Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow of the Brookings Research Institute, rarely plays his institutional role for a relatively inexperienced speaker, Johnson. Was stated.
“He needs to understand how to work with Trump’s most effectively and driven the Republican Republican Conference to agree with things,” she said. “He needs to understand whether Trump has a way to do it.”
So far, Johnson has done so mainly by acting as a legislative clerk of the president. That was his strategy for a while. On the night of the election, he tightened his bolt from his victory party at Shrievoc, Louisiana, and flew to Maruarago real estate, Florida Trump for a real celebration.
Recently, on January 6, 2021, he said that Trump’s decision to forgive a violent criminal who attacked a police officer at the Congress Hall was not “for the second time.”
The amount of power concentrated in the speaker office took a history and flowed. However, in the last few decades, parliamentary power has been concentrated in the speaker’s office, and until recently, residents have been at least nominal and institutional leaders.
In contrast, Johnson effectively set up his position as a member of the President, and as a result, he reduced his office height.
In the virus photograph of Mr. Trump shortly after the election, the presidential election was sitting on a plane with his son Donald Trump Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ate McDonald’s.
Johnson was in the picture, but he was not on the table of cool children. In photosHe is sitting on Kennedy’s shoulder, tilting to reach the frame, and the group looks like the fifth wheel when the group heads to the Madison Square Garden for the battle of UFC on Saturday night. 。
The Democratic Party claims that Johnson’s approach is eroding his own position and the power of Congress itself.
“The relationship will reduce the chairman’s constitutional bureau,” said the Democratic Party of Mary, the Democratic Party of Mary, said. “The president is not the chairman, parliament, or the boss of the state. The speakers are not the right arm of the president, the assistant, or a small companion, or an inferiority.”
Former speaker Nancy Peloshi was an important partner of the two Democratic President. But she had her own powerful power in Capitol Hill, and she sometimes stayed away from President Barak Obama. He included his plan to leave 50,000 US troops in Iraq, and his decision not to prosecute the Bush administration officials involved in torture.
She also pushed back violently when she wanted to pursue a smaller and fragmentary healthcare overhaul, instead of a comprehensive plan for a comprehensive plan. (She won.)
“The incredibly shrinking lecture that began with Kevin McCarthy was unfortunately under Mike Johnson,” said Peloshi, the predecessor of Johnson, who was called “My Kevin”. I mentioned in. “When the chairman tells the president and the Republican member indicates the president that he is a rubber stamp, the members lose leverage in any policy that can affect their districts.”
She said there was a difference in opinion when he kept the post under the Democratic President, both of Obama and Joseph R. Videen Jr. But she respects that they always claim to be responsible for their members in a way that is not so. “
Even the former Republican Speaker, New Best Gin Rich, who complements Johnson’s impossible hand, worships his attitude of shooting Vans in an elliptical office. I compared it with that of my spouse.
“It’s like my wife. She takes all pictures. If she doesn’t take a picture, it doesn’t seem to happen,” said Ginrich, who called the moment “cute.” Ta.
“This man rushed into his work he didn’t want and endured the infinite pain from the members of his nuts,” he said, “He’s a little fun.”
Strategically, Ginrich said that Johnson’s approach, who embraces Trump, is reasonable, considering that Republican members need to maintain the control of Congress after the mid -election in 2026.
He also pointed out what may be the biggest legislative decision of this year -packing all of the immigrants of the parties, reducing taxes and reducing expenditures into one invoice, or divided into two. I will do it. Trump promotes one big bill. (The Republican Senate leaders are pushing two.)
“Trump is like FDR and Lindon Johnson,” said Ginrich in an interview. “You want Trump and the Republican members to be a member of the same choir.”