As 2025 came to an end, Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on Fox Business and boasted, “We’ve had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution.” The Louisiana Republican had said something similar a month earlier, insisting that this is “arguably the most productive [Congress] of all time.”

For good measure, the House GOP leader wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, claiming that 2025 was “one of the most productive first years of any Congress in our lifetimes.”

By any fair measure, Johnson’s boasts were absurd and easily discredited. But they were also born of desperation: Americans elected a Republican-led House, a Republican Senate and a Republican president; the House speaker, eager to keep his gavel, clearly hoped to convince voters that GOP policymakers had seized the opportunity and delivered real results.

The trouble is, even some of Johnson’s partisan brethren aren’t buying it. The Hill reported:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Wednesday the Republican Party was fractured and has not accomplished ‘anything’ despite their majority in both the House and Senate. […]

Tuberville says the party hasn’t been moving in unison like it should. ‘It’s, it’s embarrassing that we’re up here and we’re raising money to, to continue with the same people being up here,’ he told [far-right podcast host Benny Johnson].

The Alabama Republican, who’s giving up his Senate seat after one term to run for governor, declared, “Everything that goes on up here, Benny, is about, ‘Oh, we got to get re-elected. We got to keep the majority.’ Well, hell, we ain’t done anything in the majority. Why should we keep a majority?”

The comments did not go unnoticed. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer highlighted the Alabamian’s comments via social media, adding that this was “the only time I’ve ever agreed with” Tuberville.

In fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Democratic campaign officials actually ran ads promoting Tuberville’s comments ahead of the 2026 midterm elections to emphasize the simple fact that even some prominent Republicans believe the party has failed, despite having total control over the levers of federal power.

What’s more, Tuberville isn’t wrong. His party managed to pass one massive domestic policy package, which delivered tax breaks to the wealthy while slashing Medicaid, but a) the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act was substantively indefensible; and b) the whole endeavor remains unpopular, offering GOP incumbents effectively nothing to run on this fall.

This is, after all, a Congress that has voluntarily surrendered many of its responsibilities and prerogatives to the White House, while simultaneously proving itself to be an exceedingly dysfunctional and unproductive institution. It’s also a Congress in which the number of resignations easily surpasses the number of major bills passed.

Time will tell what happens in the coming months, but if Republicans are planning to run on a record of accomplishments and successes, they should start looking for a Plan B.

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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