Exclusive: Top economists endorse Speaker Mike Johnson: "now is not the time for an internal Republican brawl over leadership positions"
The conservative movement's top economists made their pick for Speaker of the House known. We've got the exclusive.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) is heading into the speaker’s vote with support locked up from almost every House Republican, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and some of the conservative movement’s top economists, who are endorsing Johnson in a letter that every member of Congress will receive.
The letter, first obtained by the Washington Reporter, follows a serious of momentum-building endorsements for Johnson by all swathes of the GOP. Its signatories, which include Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the University of Chicago’s Casey Mulligan, former Sen. Phil Gramm, Unleash Prosperity’s Stephen Moore, and several others who have been key cogs in party’s economic space.
“Speaker Johnson is an unflinching champion of pro-growth tax reforms, limited government,
deregulation, school choice, sound money, and budget control,” they wrote. “He has served admirably as Speaker of the House under tough circumstances.”
In recent days, several House Republicans who were waffling on their speaker’s votes announced that they are eagerly backing Johnson, and heavyweights people and organizations, ranging from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) to the Republican Jewish Coalition.
The latest group backing Johnson included in their letter that “Donald Trump is right that Speaker Johnson has become a ‘political powerhouse’ and will be a strong partner to advance the Trump economic agenda. We also believe that given the urgency for Republicans to rebuild the strength of the economy after four years of high inflation, stagnant incomes and $2 trillion deficits, now is not the time for an internal Republican brawl over leadership positions.”
Other signatories on the letter include Laffer Associates’s Arthur Laffer, Forbes Media’s Steve Forbes, Independent Institute’s Judy Shelton, Bahnsen Associates’s David Bahnsen, the Heritage Foundation’s EJ Antoni, Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, and David Malpass, the former president of the World Bank.
Read their full letter here.
