Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) summarized President Joe Biden‘s legacy as one of “catastrophe.”
Biden gave his farewell speech Wednesday night, which prompted Johnson’s response on Fox News’s Hannity afterward. The outgoing president, 82, is the oldest to hold the office and will be succeeded by President-elect Donald Trump, who endorsed Johnson for speaker during his recent reelection in the House.
“It doesn’t matter what he said tonight, the American people know his legacy,” Johnson said. “The wide-open border and the catastrophe that will be for years to come, the skyrocketing cost of living, the average American family spending $13,000 more annually just to stay afloat, weakness on the world stage, a terrible, and catastrophic foreign policy by every metric.”
“We had the weaponization of the DOJ, lawfare, the undermining of our entire justice system, and then the cover-up of his cognitive decline,” Johnson said. “I mean, these are objective facts. The American people saw that, and they evaluated it.”
Meanwhile the speaker said House Republicans are “united” to issue a budget reconciliation bill as soon as late February, with a hard deadline of Memorial Day. Johnson supported Trump’s suggestion that it all gets done in a single bill.
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Republicans have a 219-215 majority in the House, until Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Elise Stefanik resign to join the Trump administration, and a 53-47 majority in the Senate. Trump had GOP majorities in both chambers during the first two years of his first administration as well.
As speaker, Johnson has won over many Democratic colleagues in the House. His continuing resolution, which will fund the government through March 14, had the support of all Democratic lawmakers. Still, 34 Republican representatives and 11 senators voted against the legislation.
