<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Ahead of the opening day of the new Congress, Representative Chip Roy, who was refusing to commit to voting for Speaker Mike Johnson’s re-election, took an intense phone call from President-elect Donald J. Trump.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump was blunt with Mr. Roy, the ultraconservative Texas Republican who had recently defied him and voted against his desired spending and debt deal: He would pull back on the abuse he had unspooled online, including a threat to recruit a primary opponent to unseat him, if Mr. Roy would fall in line behind Mr. Johnson — and generally get on board with the Trump agenda.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“I will if you’re good to me,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Roy, according to two people familiar with their conversation. “But you’re not being very good to me.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Roy ultimately voted for Mr. Johnson, sparing the party a bloody leadership fight just before Mr. Trump took office. And these days, Mr. Roy has been supporting Mr. Trump’s agenda. In return, the president has, as promised, stopped savaging him in public.</p></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It was Mr. Roy who helped convene a group of fiscal conservatives to meet with Mr. Trump last week at the White House to discuss the temporary spending bill that the president needs them to support to avoid a government shutdown after midnight on Friday. And it was Mr. Roy who made the most aggressive case in the meeting that members of the group, many of whom are uniformly opposed to such stopgap funding measures, should back the plan.</p></div>

<div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption" class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">Speaker Mike Johnson has made himself more a member of Mr. Trump’s entourage than a power broker in his own right.</span><span class="css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Kenny Holston/The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div>

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In his second term, President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with G.O.P. lawmakers — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.{ai:summary}<p>Representative Chip Roy received a direct call from President-elect Donald Trump before the new Congress, where Trump urged him to support Speaker Mike Johnson and align with his agenda. Roy complied, voting for Johnson and aiding in discussions about a crucial spending bill to prevent a government shutdown.</p><p>Roy's shift in support has helped maintain party unity, as he has since backed Trump's initiatives and facilitated meetings with fiscal conservatives at the White House. Trump's public criticism of Roy has ceased following this alignment. #politics</p>