Speaker Johnson: One-Vote Margin Means I Have to Work with a 'Couple of Democrats'

Speaker Johnson: One-Vote Margin Means I Have to Work with a ‘Couple of Democrats’


House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he had to work with Democrats because he has the smallest margin in U.S. history in the House of Representatives.

Johnson said, “Many of my Conservative friends, some that you just pictured, there are some of the most vocal advocates for their regular process of the House, and that means that we look at things in single-subject. We look at them individually on their own merits. So I made that decision that we should break this into four parts so that you evaluate Israel and Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific funding measures and then are separate national and foreign aid responsibilities separately. So there’s four separate bills. Everyone would be able to give an up

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