{"id":20086,"date":"2026-03-16T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:16:46","slug":"johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson on Trump&#8217;s Hormuz plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he supports President Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to build a global coalition ensure safe passage of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 even if Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t anticipate it&#8221; being necessary before launching airstrikes against Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after attending a Washington event with Trump, Johnson said the president told him that &#8220;he anticipated the strait of Hormuz would be closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that he didn&#8217;t anticipate it in the front end, but now it&#8217;s necessitated,&#8221; Johnson said. He added that the coalition is &#8220;a reasonable thing&#8221; for other countries to assist with and &#8220;it would be helpful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about how much a potential supplemental package to fund the military action would cost, Johnson said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know yet.&#8221; Estimates for the cost of the war have exceeding $1 billion per day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he supports President Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to build a global coalition ensure safe passage of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 even if Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t anticipate it&#8221; being necessary before launching airstrikes against Iran. Speaking to reporters after attending a Washington event with Trump, Johnson said the president told him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}