Three of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s top staffers have abruptly resigned.
Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske, and Preston Hill will depart Mike Johnson’s office at the end of May.
PunchBowl News reported:
Three leading members of Speaker Mike Johnson’s policy team are leaving his office by the end of May, robbing the House’s top Republican of a critical core of experienced aides.
Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske and Preston Hill — all of whom also worked for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy — are heading to Michael Best Strategies, a lobbying firm with offices in D.C. and around the country.
The departure, which is striking in size and in experience, strips Johnson of a significant amount of expertise in his domestic policy shop. Specht was McCarthy’s policy director and was key in crafting the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which raised the debt limit and set budget levels for two years.
Yaworske is a well-respected adviser to the speaker on the appropriations and budget matters. As the House Appropriations Committee begins marking up the FY2025 spending bills, Yaworske’s expertise on government spending is in demand.
And Hill, a longtime figure in GOP leadership, was in charge of overseeing House Republican policy in burgeoning policy areas such as cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence as well as Education and the Workforce and Financial Services.
The resignations come shortly after GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) moved to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
MTG last month filed her motion to vacate against Speaker Johnson. She brought the resolution to the House floor a couple of weeks ago.
The House speedily squashed MTG’s motion, however, Mike Johnson is facing strong headwinds after he lost support from members of his own caucus.
Not only did Mike Johnson fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan without committing funding to protect the US border, he also promised to protect hired gun Jack Smith.
This is after Jack Smith admitted he lied to the court and tampered with evidence related to his classified docs case against Trump.
