re: Jack Smith Gets Good News From Mike Johnson

That might work if he was not already appointed and working. It would take defunding the DOJ as a whole since his funding was already baked into the DOJ budget. There is a reason that NO Special Counsel / IC has ever been defunded that I can recall going back to Watergate

Republicans overall are powerless because they don't control the Senate and have had very small majorities in the House. Without sizeable majorities in both, it's a debate society and Johnson knows this.