Rep. Mike Johnson’s road to returning as House Speaker might be a lot trickier now that fellow Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz is noncommittal to voting for him.
Spartz appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning and refused to commit to voting for Johnson, who has a razor-thin opening to get the necessary votes from his Republican caucus with only a four-seat GOP majority in the House. Rep. Thomas Massie has already come out as a “no” vote on Speaker Johnson’s reelection bid, which means the Louisiana congressman can ill afford to lose any more votes without risking his position as the second in line to the Presidency.
Fox & Friends co-host Will Cain opened the interview by flatly asking Spartz, “ Why are you not committed to Speaker Johnson as the next Speaker of the House?”
“Well, I’ll tell you, will I look at people, a track record. And unfortunately, we will not be able to deliver on President Trump’s agenda as the same happened in 2016, because it has to be done legislatively,” she explained. “If we don’t have a speaker with the courage, vision and the plan, and if Speaker Johnson wants to be speaker, then he needs to lay out the plan and commit to that plan, not like what he did last year. ”