Speaker Mike Johnson knows how hard it is to govern with a slim majority. That could come in handy.
While the official margin for the next Congress hasn’t yet been determined — Republicans haven’t even officially won the House yet — it’s clear Republicans won’t be able to lose many of their own lawmakers on party-line votes. And Johnson’s theoretical majority just keeps getting smaller thanks to one man: President-elect Donald Trump.
“President Trump and I have talked about this multiple times for the last couple of days,” Johnson said Tuesday morning at a press conference on the Capitol steps.