'Good riddance': Columnist decries Mike Johnson's damage to 'vital' speakership

The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf argues in a column that outgoing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did more than any other speaker to undermine the House’s constitutional role. Friedersdorf says Johnson’s approach was summed up in his remark that he had “no intention of getting in the way of President Trump and his administration,” made when asked about tariffs, a power the Constitution gives…

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