House Republicans will make themselves “absolutely irrelevant” if they do not remain united behind President-elect Donald Trump and his agenda, Rep. Derrick Van Orden said on Newsmax Saturday, one day after House Speaker Mike Johnson’s dramatic reelection.

“We do not have any time for anybody to showboat at all,” the Wisconsin Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “There is no time for somebody standing up and just talking to hear the sound of their voice.”

“What we need to do is have a very deliberative legislative process and follow the agenda that is laid out by President Donald J. Trump and get the country back on track,” Van Orden added.

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