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What’s up with Speaker Johnson not reporting a bank account?

Johnson’s recent launch from obscure congressional backbencher to one of the most powerful people in the country has come with a wave of scrutiny. Reporters are combing through his past and finding weird stuff — his 👉curious arrangement with his son to monitor each others’ digital devices for porn, for instance.


One less salacious but perhaps more consequential discovery involves his finances. In his most recent annual financial disclosures, released last year, 👉Johnson reports♦️ no assets at all♦️.


♦️Zero.♦️


There are 👉no retirement accounts, no money-market funds, no stocks, no crypto, not even a basic checking or savings account.

Even more peculiar, his disclosures have 👉never listed any checking or savings accounts on any of the forms he has filed going back to 2016, the year he was elected to Congress.


This is confusing. Where is his congressional salary being deposited? How is he paying his bills?


Johnson was asked on Sunday about his lack of a bank account during an interview on Fox News.

“I’m a man of modest means,” he replied, deflecting.

He said he had previously worked at nonprofits.

He noted that he also has👉 either four or five children (which is a whole other story).

“We have a lot of expenses,” he said, citing multiple tuition bills for those kids.

He then pivoted to talking about his upbringing as the son of a firefighter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/07/mike-johnson-speaker-bank-account-mystery/