 Speaker Johnson wasted little time after 163 Democrats voted to save his speakership to announce that he would not use Congress's constitutional power of the purse to stop the special counsel Jack Smith's lawfare against Donald Trump. Oh, wow, that didn't last very long, did it? The speaker, in some of his earliest public comments after Democrats saved his gavel, refused to make any attempt to defund Smith's office as it continues its prosecutions of Trump.