Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., told Newsmax on Tuesday that in order to support Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for the 119th Congress, which convenes Friday, she needs "reassurances" that he won't sell out the GOP to the swamp once he reclaims the gavel.
"He needs to have a contract with America – Speaker [Newt] Gingrich had it – because, unfortunately, a lot of promises that he's been doing for the last year didn't happen," Spartz told "Newsline." "So, he needs to be honest and have courage to actually lay out how we're going to deliver on the things that we promised. The golden age that [President-elect Donald Trump] promised will last only more than 40 years if Congress is going to pass some laws.
"I want us to have a golden age for 40 or 400 years, but it's important that they're going to happen in the law and the speaker has courage, and he needs to do it before he becomes speaker, because he's changing the rules and it will be very hard to vacate the speaker. So, there is going to be no accountability after he is speaker."
Spartz said the Republicans were "given a mandate by the American people to deliver" and cautioned that her party has one last chance to prove that it can deliver the change voters demanded on Election Day.
"If we fail the American people in the next year, we'll have a Marxist win and I am serious about that," she said. "Listen, I've been trained by Marxists. I've seen how they're functioning and how much they advance. Our country [is on] a collision course; it's like the Titanic.
"They understand every time you have [a] calamity, it allows them to have more government control and that's what they've been advancing. If my party is not going to grow the backbone and push back, it's going to happen.
"They will have government takeover of industry. They will have government takeover of healthcare. They're going to be controlling all of us and have oligarchs in D.C. being elite class and telling us what to do, and we get there if my party is not going to do something.
"We have truly one year, and Congress needs to help President Trump. He will be very busy. He has a lot of issues to deal with, he has a lot of confirmations and, really, in the next six months, we need to lay out his agenda and help him to put it in the law and Congress has to do it."
Spartz also stressed she has no "personal objections" to Johnson being speaker again and said she "supported him before."
"He's a great human being," Spartz said. "We have good conversations, and he's very intellectual, very smart person. It's not about person. I don't have any personality problem with him. I need to make sure that we have courage and maybe sometimes he need to push to have some courage to promise to the American people.
"Then he will not be persuaded by swamp again and fold on a lot of issues. So, he needs to say what he's going to do, how he's going to do it, and what we're going to deliver and then he will have more pressure from the American people to do it."
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