House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will not target defunding special counsel Jack Smith despite calls from within his conference to do so.
After soundly defeating an attempted ousting led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on May 8, the speaker told Politico’s “Playbook Deep Dive” podcast that he would not capitulate to the congresswoman’s demand that he defund the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
“I think that there’s been a terrible dereliction of duty with regard to the special counsel on how the whole system has been abused, how they’ve engaged in lawfare against President Trump. I mean, all of these things are, to me self-evident truths,” Mr. Johnson noted….
