Making the Case for Mike Johnson

After the election, especially with Republicans expected to lose control of the House, there are going to be a lot of assessments of Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership. Two former senior staffers, Dan Ziegler and Jay Fields, who served as Johnson’s policy director and deputy policy director, have made an extensive case for their former boss, which you can read here.

Johnson’s crowning achievement was wrangling a fragile majority around the sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill, which, in addition to renewing President Trump’s first-term tax cuts, rolled back some Democratic initiatives such as green-energy tax credits and included some reforms to Medicaid.