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‘Just a Numbers Game’: Mike Johnson Doesn’t Expect Any More House Republicans in the Trump Administration

“Every single vote will count, because if someone gets ill or has a car accident or a late flight on their plane, then it affects the votes on the floor,” Johnson said Tuesday.

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Speaker Mike Johnson discusses President Joe Biden during a news conference at the Capitol. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

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.