'Don't give promises you can't deliver': GOP lawmakers warn Johnson not to ape McCarthy
Raw StoryHouse Speaker Mike Johnson faces a massive difficulty in tomorrow's vote to keep him in the gavel. Specifically, they told him not to give the far-right flank rule changes that benefit them at the expense of the rest of the caucus, simply as a condition of getting their votes — something that ultimately destroyed McCarthy's speakership as he gave a renegade band of lawmakers, led by former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the ability to vote to remove him the second he made compromises on spending they hated. "Don't give promises upon which you can't deliver. Don't give promises that require us to do things that we don't want to do, that are beyond reasonable," the lawmaker said. Johnson, according to other sources, has said he is willing to make handshake agreements on various policies being given a say in the House, but that unlike McCarthy, he won't agree to make rule changes.
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