The same way Mike Johnson can continue to refuse any work or negotiations to be conducted, by refusing to have ANY House business conducted unless Democrats kneel down, kiss Trumps ring and allow millions of Americans to get hit with high increases in their healthcare coverage premiums.
I supposed one could ask why Mike Johnson has punted Congressional powers to the POTUS. Powers of the “purse strings” which is supposed to be the Houses power. The power to set tariffs, making taxation policy and, most importantly, allowing the Executive Branch to police itself as opposed to having Congress act as a check on Presidential powers. But I supposed Johnson isn’t fully to blame for that. The cowards in the Senate have a lot of blame to share.
We currently DO NOT have a functional Congress. And not just because of the polarization between the two major parties. But mainly because GOP Congressional members are very content to act as a rubber stamp for anything Trump puts in front of them. They cry all the time “but Biden had an auto pen” while THEY are Trumps “auto pen”. Just passing through whatever Trump wants regardless of how much damage it will do to even the GOP voting base. And then having to spin things to try to say how it’s the Democrats fault that the GOP passed, with 100% support, policies Trump wants. And some of those voters are actually either stupid enough or brainwashed enough to believe them.
Meanwhile, Trump is abusing the powers of the DOJ by having them go after people he hates personally with either malicious or plain ole bullshit cases. Congress is sitting by while Trump has Can’t keep a secret Hegseth direct the Navy to hit ships in international waters with missiles and claiming they are ALL 100% drug dealers. Meanwhile, they only let 2 survive because they were on a drug smuggling semi submersible. Meanwhile, somehow, not a single person has survived in the regular boats they went after. Not saying anything illegal has happened to regular civilians just out on a boat, but I am pointing out that it’s just curious.
Congress has ignored the Emoluments Clause by allowing Trump to accept a $400 million bribe plane from Qatar while his son in law is in talks with the Saudi’s over billion dollar deals.
There’s a LOT people can ask why Mike Johnson is doing or not doing things over. But the answers all come down to one thing. He is a coward ONLY interested in maintaining his position as Speaker of the House and cares nothing about those who voted for him, the Constitution or his responsibilities as a member of the House.
Louisiana Voice 
Well said, Tom! I was raised So. Baptist so I cannot see how he can day after day LIE to protect this evil man! I came home from the hospital yesterday and am able to draw some comfort that you are still on the job!
Wish I could take the credit, but this was just a re-post of what appeared on Quora this morning.
I agree with everything you’ve said and I would add that Johnson and most of the other MAGA cowards in Congress believe in only one thing: that they are entitled to a taxpayer-funded job. In order to receive that government check they need voters to vote for them and in order to get MAGA voters you have to pander and pander and pander some more. You have to tell MAGA voters Democrats are handing out benefits to millions of illegals and signing them up to vote in the next election. You have to tell MAGA voters that “educating” your children means ignoring science, rewriting history, and thinking you know more than doctors and researchers. You have to tell MAGA voters how important the love of Jesus is in your life just like it is in theirs. So Mike Johnson is just doing what most other MAGA cowards in Congress – Scalise, Letlow; Cassidy, Kennedy – are doing: proving the ONLY thing they believe in is that they are entitled to a taxpayer-funded job. The few other MAGA cowards in congress – Clay Higgins comes to mind – aren’t pandering; they actually are full blown fascists.
Tom, the Saudis did not offer the plane(bribe), Qatar did. Other than that, you are right on point. Speaking of the offer(bribe), many folks wondered what was Qatar getting in return. Well, we now know. Qatar gets to have some of its air force personnel train at an American airbase and Qatar and Turkey, both avid supporters of Hamas, want to be out front in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Gaza. Thus insuring a prominent voice for Hamas.
Clifford, you are correct but I didn’t write this. It was published on Quora and I simply re-posted it (without corrections). I’ve now made the correction. Thanks for pointing out the error.