Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said the agreed deal is far from conservative.
“I am hearing the ‘deal’ is for a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit,” Good tweeted Saturday. “IF that is true, I don’t need to hear anything else. No one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote.”
Johnson dismissed Good’s criticism in his interview as irrelevant bickering.
“Let’s be honest, Bob Good will not vote for this thing,” Johnson said. “It doesn’t matter if Mother Theresa came back from the dead and called him. He’s not voting for it. He was never going to. This is going to pass.”
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, detailed his concerns with the debt ceiling agreement Sunday in a series of tweets. This included a criticism of the estimated $4 trillion cost of the agreement, a lack of budget cuts, no work requirements for Medicare, and a failure to include measures for border security.
“There are members of the GOP claiming Democrats got nothing from the ‘deal.’ Oh really?” Roy tweeted as he listed his criticisms.
Johnson said he talked to roughly three dozen House Republicans about the agreement with the White House, all of which he claimed supported it.
“Everybody I’m talking to understands that when you’re reducing spending, when you’re peeling back the regulatory state, when you are unlocking American energy, when you are getting people back to work, this is a big deal,” Johnson said.
Speaker McCarthy brushed off any concerns that conservative hardliners could move to take away his gavel over the bill, declaring he was “not at all” concerned about that.
“We did a conference call with our conference, and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. They haven’t had – they’re getting the text today,” McCarthy said. “You’re gonna have Republicans and Democrats be able to move this to the president.”