GOP lawmaker: Denying Mike Johnson's speakership would 'squander' opportunity from God

Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) warned his Republican colleagues opposing Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) to be speaker of the House would "squander" an opportunity that "the Lord God" had given them to change the country.

During a Sunday interview with Fox News, host Rich Edson asked Babin about Johnson's chances to keep the speakership with a slim Republican majority.

"I would think he's trying to walk a tightrope with maybe three-seat majority," Babin explained. "I can tell you, I don't know some of these folks, and I'm friends with a lot of them that may you may call naysayers. Quite frankly, I don't know what their plan B is."

"And so he's — we've got an opportunity that the Lord God has given us," he added. "The American people have given us a mandate to fix this country, and we don't want to be spending weeks again choosing another speaker."

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With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, Babin said the party "can't be squandering away days and weeks trying to pick a speaker when we've got an agenda to pass to save this country."

Johnson has regularly leaned on his Christian faith to push forward his agenda as speaker.

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