President-elect Donald Trump endorsed Mike Johnson for Home speaker on Monday following a struggle over authorities funding earlier this month that divided Republicans and imperiled his management bid.
Trump, 78, butted heads with Johnson over the speaker’s resolution to not droop the nation’s debt ceiling — however nonetheless threw his weight behind the Louisiana Republican to win again the gavel in January.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man,” the incoming president posted on Reality Social. “He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!”
The soon-to-be forty seventh president had hoped to tie federal spending to an elimination of the debt restrict, becoming a member of with tech billionaire Elon Musk and financial hawks within the Home Republican convention to tank earlier drafts of the funding invoice.
On Dec. 20, Congress handed a slimmed-down model of the laws that excluded the debt ceiling provision, whereas nonetheless chopping different expensive provisions.
In his put up, Trump additionally knocked Democrats for the “very expensive” campaigns of their nominees President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and mentioned the pair’s administration had been a “sinking ship.”
“IT WAS A DISASTER!!!” he declared. “LETS NOT BLOW THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN.”
