Steve Bannon has become a voice of the grassroots Trump supporters.
He had one message he had to get off his chest.
And Steve Bannon uttered three words that took Donald Trump by surprise.
Steve Bannon says House Speaker Mike Johnson has to go
RINO Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) bungled another big spending fight with Democrats.
He cut a deal to drop a 1,547-page continuing resolution spending bill that he negotiated in secret with Democrats right before Christmas.
The bill included funding for another year of a State Department censorship scheme, the first pay raise for Congress since 2009, and protections for January 6 Committee members from prosecution.
An outcry from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy created a backlash against the bill that was ultimately killed after President-elect Donald Trump weighed in against it.
Congressional Republicans will have to navigate slim majorities in the House and Senate to pass Trump’s agenda next year.
Budget reconciliation is going to be used for a border security bill and an extension of the landmark 2017 Trump tax cuts.
Those bills can avoid the Senate filibuster by Democrats but they can only lose a few votes in each chamber to pass.
Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon told a crowd at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, “He’s gotta go!”
“Clearly, Johnson’s not up to the task, and he’s gotta go, right?” Bannon told the crowd.
“He’s gotta go! Should Johnson be speaker of the House?” Bannon asked.
The crowd replied with a raucous chant of “No!”
Bannon had a message for Trump about Johnson.
“President Trump, these are your people,” Bannon said. “He doesn’t have that, what we call the right stuff, right? That combination of guts and moxie and savvy and toughness!”
Johnson botching the spending fight doesn’t bode well for him handling the important task of shepherding Trump’s agenda through Congress.
The House Speaker canceled an appearance at AmericaFest after the spending bill debacle.
Mike Johnson couldn’t pass the easy test
Bannon told Breitbart News that the spending bill should have been an easy fight for Johnson.
“My fear is: This was going to be the easiest exercise we had in all of 2025: just pass a simple [continuing resolution], which, as you know, the Breitbart readers hate, the War Room audience hates,” Bannon explained. “We’re prepared to do it because it kicked it down to President Trump when Russ Vought and Scott Bessent and President Trump’s team, and Johnson couldn’t even do that right.”
“Johnson screwed that up by including 1,500 pages and gave themselves a 35 percent pay raise, and got them off Obamacare, which is why the guy got shot in the back in New York City,” Bannon added.
The War Room podcast referenced the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York.
Johnson’s challenges will only grow harder once Republicans control Congress and the White House next year.
“If we can’t do the easiest one. Simply, I think you need new leadership in the House, and President Trump’s team, I think, has to engage now with House leadership and say, ‘Hey, no more surprises, we need to know everything,’” Bannon explained.
Mike Johnson is the weak link who could endanger the fate of the Trump agenda next year.
