{"id":2512,"date":"2025-01-28T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/johnson-joins-the-trump-entourage-shrinking-the-role-of-house-speaker\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:35:31","slug":"johnson-joins-the-trump-entourage-shrinking-the-role-of-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/johnson-joins-the-trump-entourage-shrinking-the-role-of-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Joins the Trump Entourage, Shrinking the Role of House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The speaker of the House has for centuries played a singular role among political leaders in the United States, as the only partisan figure in Congress who is also explicitly empowered by the Constitution to lead the legislative branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One wouldn\u2019t necessarily know that from watching the recent behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who is conducting himself less like the autonomous head of a coequal branch of government and more like a junior partner to President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the past couple of weeks, Mr. Johnson <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/15\/us\/politics\/mike-turner-house-intelligence.html\" title=\"\">removed the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Michael R. Turner of Ohio<\/a>, acting upon a request from Mar-a-Lago. He trailed behind Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1882083118032846868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1882083118032846868%7Ctwgr%5E2e6188b051a98536decd39ab6eb9953cef220922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fhouse-speaker-johnson-captures-vp-jd-vances-first-visit-oval-office-video\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">breathlessly chronicling Mr. Vance\u2019s first moment setting foot in the Oval Office<\/a> as if he were a White House staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI told him and President Trump that I HAD to capture the moment on video,\u201d Mr. Johnson wrote online in a giddy caption to his viral video last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, when Mr. Johnson and House Republicans held their annual retreat at the Trump National Doral in Miami, the speaker complimented Mr. Trump on his \u201cbeautiful club\u201d and defended several norm-shattering and legally questionable moves the president has made that circumvented Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe support the president\u2019s initiative, obviously, 100 percent,\u201d he said of Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He stood by the president\u2019s decision to fire more than a dozen inspectors general overseeing government agencies without giving Congress the required 30-day notice about such removals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSometimes you need a fresh look,\u201d Mr. Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And when it came to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/colombia-us-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump\u2019s weekend war of words with Colombia<\/a> about accepting U.S. military planes flying deportees into the country, Mr. Johnson gave what sounded like a neat encapsulation of his governing philosophy: \u201cCongress will back up the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With that, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/republican-retreat-trump-mccarthy-florida.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\" title=\"\">any past pretense of the party having its own agenda beyond Mr. Trump\u2019s priorities<\/a> was firmly dispensed with. It is a break with the past, when speakers of both parties have been territorial about the prerogatives of Congress, even if it sometimes meant challenging their own president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said the too-slim House majority leaves Mr. Johnson, a relatively inexperienced speaker, with little latitude to play his institutional role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe has to figure out how to work with Trump most effectively to drive the House Republican conference to agreement on things,\u201d she said. \u201cHe needs to figure out if there is a way for Trump to be helpful in doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, Mr. Johnson has been doing so primarily by acting as the president\u2019s legislative valet. That has been his strategy for a while. On election night, he bolted from his own victory party in Shreveport, La., and flew to Mr. Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for the real celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More recently, he said he would not \u201csecond guess\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to pardon violent criminals who attacked police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The amount of power concentrated in the speaker\u2019s office has ebbed and flowed through history. But in recent decades, congressional power has been centralized in the speaker\u2019s office, and until recently its occupant acted, at least nominally, as an institutional leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Johnson, by contrast, has effectively installed himself as a member of the president\u2019s entourage and, as a consequence, has shrunk the stature of the office he holds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a viral photograph of Mr. Trump taken just after the election, the president-elect sat on his plane eating McDonald\u2019s with Elon Musk, his son Donald Trump Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick to serve as health secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Johnson was also in the picture, but not in a seat at the cool kids\u2019 table. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1858136498530374074\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In the photo<\/a>, he is perched over Mr. Kennedy\u2019s shoulder, leaning to get in the frame and looking a bit like a fifth wheel as the group headed to Madison Square Garden for a Saturday night UFC fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats contend that Mr. Johnson\u2019s approach is eroding the power of his own position and of Congress itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis relationship diminishes the constitutional office of speaker,\u201d said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. \u201cThe president is not the boss of the speaker, the Congress or the nation. The speaker is not the president\u2019s right-hand man, aide-de-camp, little buddy or inferior officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a vital partner to two Democratic presidents. But she had her own potent power base on Capitol Hill, and she distanced herself from President Barack Obama at times, including on his plan to leave 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and his decision not to prosecute Bush administration officials involved in torture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She also pushed back hard on the Obama administration when it wanted to pursue a smaller, piecemeal health care overhaul, lobbying instead for a comprehensive plan. (She won.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe incredibly shrinking speakership that began with Kevin McCarthy has unfortunately continued under Mike Johnson,\u201d Ms. Pelosi said, referring to Mr. Johnson\u2019s predecessor, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/kevin-mccarthy-house-republican-leader.html\" title=\"\">whom Mr. Trump nicknamed \u201cmy Kevin.\u201d<\/a> \u201cWhen the speaker indicates to the president that House Republicans are a rubber stamp for him, members lose leverage in any debate on policy that could impact their districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She noted that when she held the post under Democratic presidents, both Mr. Obama and President Joseph R. Biden Jr., there were disagreements. But, she said, \u201cthey always respected that the vote is a privilege of the House members who are held accountable to their constituents in a way that they were not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican who is complimentary of how Mr. Johnson is playing an impossible hand, compared his demeanor filming Mr. Vance in the Oval Office to that of an adoring spouse who was just trying to have some fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s like my wife \u2014 she takes pictures of everything. If she doesn\u2019t take a picture, it\u2019s like it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d said Mr. Gingrich, who called the moment \u201ccute.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis guy got thrust into his job that he didn\u2019t ask for, has endured endless pain from the nuttier members of his conference,\u201d he said, \u201cso he has a little fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Strategically, Mr. Gingrich said, Mr. Johnson\u2019s approach of hugging Mr. Trump close made sense given that Republicans need to keep control of Congress after the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also noted that on what may be the single biggest legislative decision of the year \u2014 whether to cram all of the party\u2019s immigration, tax cuts and spending cuts <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/tax-cuts-immigration-republicans-trump.html\" title=\"\">into one bill or split them into two<\/a> \u2014 the speaker appears to be getting his way and getting Mr. Trump to push for one big bill. (Republican Senate leaders have been pressing for two.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump is like F.D.R. or Lyndon Johnson in the intensity of his support and the emotional depth of his having survived the shooting,\u201d Mr. Gingrich said in an interview. \u201cYou want Trump and the House Republicans to be part of the same choir.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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