Shrinking the Role of House Speaker

“The speaker of the House has for centuries played a singular role among political leaders in the United States, as the only partisan figure in Congress who is also explicitly empowered by the Constitution to lead the legislative branch,” the New York Times reports.

“One wouldn’t necessarily know that from watching the recent behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who is conducting himself less like the autonomous head of a coequal branch of government and more like a junior partner to President Trump.”