Dusty Johnson is a busy man. The new chair of the Republican Main Street Caucus and vice chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has positioned himself to be one of the GOP’s biggest wheeler-dealers on the Hill.
But the South Dakotan doesn’t think he’ll have much more power to flex than any other House Republican, reasoning that “everyone has a veto” among his colleagues.
Whether that’s false modesty from the self-effacing father of three or an honest assessment from, according to his peers, a straight shooter, largely depends on what backroom machinations emerge on the debt limit and federal budget.
