Uniparty Speaker Johnson May Retain Power with Support of Democrats
“There may be an effort to blow everything up but I don't think — I think the Democrats are smarter than that," Mitt Romney said. "They'd give him support.”
Speaker Mike Johnson, who recently passed a massive spending bill with the support of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, may retain the gavel by entering into a "power-sharing" agreement across party lines.
This is the view of Senator Mitt Romney, who is retiring from Congress.
“There may be an effort to blow everything up, but I don’t think — I think the Democrats are smarter than that,” Romney told reporters. “They’d give him support.”
The political bargain would serve as a check on America First Republicans aligned with the Trump agenda, as well as members of the Freedom Caucus, who aim to cut unsustainable spending levels.
It would also formalize a symbiotic relationship with the shared aim to keep fleecing taxpayers and funding foreign wars. Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries teaming up to thwart the Trump agenda would tear the mask off a Uniparty dynamic that has been obvious to political observers for over a decade.
One of the most notable examples of this dynamic occurred during the 2013 government shutdown, triggered by Tea Party demands to defund the Affordable Care Act. While Boehner initially allowed the shutdown to proceed under pressure from conservatives, he ultimately negotiated a deal with Democrats to reopen the government—a move that deeply alienated the Tea Party and sparked calls for his ouster.
Boehner’s reliance on Democratic votes not only infuriated the conservative base but also exposed deeper structural tensions within the Republican Party. The Tea Party’s grassroots energy clashed with the establishment priorities of the GOP leadership. For many Tea Party members, Boehner’s actions epitomized what they saw as the “uniparty” establishment—Republicans and Democrats colluding to maintain the status quo at the expense of government reform and democratic accountability.
House Republicans are presently clinging to a narrow majority and can only afford to lose one vote. Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) has already indicated that he would not support Johnson staying on as Speaker in the next Congress.
At least 25 House Republicans may vote against Johnson to remain as Speaker, a senior House GOP staffer told Breitbart News’s editor Matt Boyle.
On Friday, the House finally passed a continuing resolution to fund the government until March. More Democrats voted for the CR than Republicans.
Noticeably absent from the Continuing Resolution was raising the debt ceiling, a provision President-Elect Donald Trump has sought in order to further his agenda.
MAGA allies argue that keeping the debt limit would give Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer leverage in the upcoming Congress. Meanwhile, fiscal hawks want the debt limit to remain in tact in order to curb spending.
Trump is allying with fiscal hawks in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and political adviser Vivek Ramaswamy — with the mission to cut government spending and to boost economic growth.
In order to stimulate economic growth, Trump would implement tax cuts that have to be “paid for” in any new budget. This would stimulate economic growth that would broaden the tax base and help make up for the budgetary shortfall.
This strategy would also be supplemented by tariffs, which the CBO has admitted would help cut the deficit and would not significantly fuel inflation.
Speaker Johnson’s expected betrayal of Trump voters would reflect a further exposure of the federal government as colluding to halt the America First agenda.
This turn of events would further propel the activities of Trump-aligned disrupters, such as Elon Musk, who has promised to retaliate by funding the campaigns of primary opponents who run against establishment holdouts.
The future portends a major clash: The Uniparty establishment versus MAGA.
The result will either be a new “golden age” for America’s constitutional republic or a Republican Party that will be relegated to the ashbin of history.