President-elect Donald Trump is souring on House Speaker Mike Johnson over his handling of the continuing resolution and has expressed that if a speaker fight occurs in January, he might not back him.
The speaker’s staff and Trump’s staff were in communication over what the continuing resolution would look like, and a source close to Trump told NOTUS that Trump originally blessed Johnson’s plan for a three-month continuing resolution. But the source said that the president-elect was blindsided when the bill came out and it was stacked full of what he and his allies viewed as unnecessary spending and Democratic priorities.
Sen. Josh Hawley told CNN as much on Wednesday, as well as telling the outlet that Trump told him “that Mike Johnson hasn’t talked to him about all of this and about what’s in the CR.”