The New York Times’s Maya Miller reports on House speaker Mike Johnson’s reaction to senior Trump national security officials discussing sensitive military-operations plans against the Houthis in the open, via Signal, in full view of an inadvertently invited journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg:

“I’m told they’re doing an investigation to find out how that number was included, and that should be that,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol. “I’m not sure that it requires much additional attention.”

Translation: The House of Representatives isn’t going to lift a finger looking into any of this. How’s that for the Article I branch’s duty for oversight and accountability? I guess the speaker’s partisan political advantage is more important than the safeguarding of American national security.

I’ve always been with George Will: Gridlock (i.e., divided government) is a feature, not a bug in our constitutional system. And divided government provides the opportunity for many of those famous checks and balances, which very much include congressional investigations into the executive branch’s regular foolishness.

If something comes of this — and that “something” is likely to be “nothing” — it won’t be congressional Republicans who will be providing the oversight.