CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju weighed in on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday announcing he would stick to a spending deal he cut with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to keep the government open, despite hard right pressure from GOP members.

“Yeah, I just spoke to the House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA),” Raju reported Friday, adding:

That is that far-right block that has been a persistent thorn in the side of leadership team after leadership team, now being one with Speaker Johnson because they intended to try to scuttle this deal that Johnson cut with Chuck Schumer. They believed it spent too much money.

They also had demanded for restrictions, severe restrictions on the southern border with Mexico. Things that that simply the Democrats would not accept. Johnson trying to cut a bipartisan deal, trying to tout some what he believes are some conservative victories. He was open to discussing the concerns of the far right members. But just moments ago, as you indicated, say, that he would not side with those concerns and would stick to the agreement he cut with Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.

Raju asked Rep. Good on the Capitol steps if he had lost confidence in Speaker Johnson after sticking with the $1.66 trillion deal.

“That’s a silly question,” Good shot back.

“Why? I mean, you voted to oust the last speaker. A very similar agreement. Would you vote to oust him now?” Raju followed up.

“It’s a ridiculous supposition that you would, that someone who’s been a speaker for two and a half months, or has been the leader of our party for two and a half months, would be treated the same as someone who was in that position for years and is the reason why we needed new leadership,” Good added.

Raju spoke with hard-right House GOP members on Thursday, many of whom had very strong words for Johnson.

“I think it was a massive failure and we had no input into the conversations,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said.

“This place is a joke,” added Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL).

“By the time we could even get back into D.C., he had negotiated the terms of our surrender on the issue,” said Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH).

Watch the full clip above via CNN.

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