Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives, is under fire from all directions from Democrats, naturally, but also from fellow Republicans angry with him for, well, just about everything. My bill didn't pass: Blame Johnson. My bill was ignored: Blame Johnson. The perennially broken appropriations process is still broken: Blame Johnson. The process of vetting legislation in committee before proceeding to a debate and vote of the full House, colloquially referred to as regular order, is sporadic to nonexistent: Blame Johnson.
On a particularly stressful day in a particularly stressful week during what has been, honestly, a particularly stressful year for House Republicans, the ever-sunny but perpetually beleaguered Mike Johnson insisted that he retained at least a modicum of power over the institution he ostensibly leads. "I have not lost control of the House," the speaker declared to a gaggle of reporters trailing him through the Capitol.
I am absolutely delighted that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in Texas. I think it's one of the greatest things to happen to the Republican Party in a long, long time. She is the face of the Democratic Party, she and Mamdani. Good luck with that.
I'm a wartime speaker in a real sense, Johnson told Varney. It's not the most enjoyable job in the world, but I do love what we're doing. I love the team I work with. We have a unified Republican Party. If we didn't, Stuart, we would not have delivered on all the things we have this year. There's much more ahead of us, and this team is excited about it.
Typically, NDAA bills are finalized by the end of the calendar year, and the text of the legislation was anticipated to be finalized by Thursday. It the House in a 231-196 vote in September (only 17 Democrats agreed to pass it), Politico that Republican leaders were still trying to tie up some loose ends-such as barely passed though and the Senate passed it with more bipartisan ease during the shutdown in October in a 77-20 vote.
Johnson was getting rolled by House Dems attempting to block my provision to require Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office. Republicans have the House, Senate, and the White House, yet the deep state is alive and well with the Speaker getting rolled by House Dems attempting to block my provision to require Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into
LindellTV, election denier Mike Lindell's media company, posted to its X account and noted, Press Stunned as Speaker Johnson Walks Out Without Taking Questions. In a rare move, @SpeakerJohnson exited his Monday morning remarks without taking a single question leaving reporters stunned and scrambling down the hallway after him, continued the post, adding: According to gallery rules, the Speaker is expected to take at least one question. Johnson has never skipped Q&A before. After weeks of daily shutdown updates and follow up questions,
His chronic ignorance looks less like a habit than a strategy a way to stay in the good graces of President Donald Trump, who rewards loyalty above all. In Trump's Washington, knowledge is dangerous. Knowing too much can force you to act, make you responsible, even put you at odds with the leader who prefers fealty to fact. So Johnson has mastered a subtler art: performative ignorance. I'm not aware does more than dodge a question it signals allegiance.
Bethany laughed, said that is silly, but that yes, according to the definition of it, the protestors were certainly Antifa. Obviously, if you look at the definition of it, Antifa, anti-fascist I've spoke to a couple of veterans who said that's literally what they fought against. They are anti-fascist. So I think I should be proud to say that the people out here are Antifa, Bethany said. We don't agree with the fascist government.
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The people of Arizona's seventh congressional district a vast territory extending across the state's south, along the Mexican border have been denied representation in Congress for weeks. That's because Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, has refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva, their representative-elect, who won a special election to fill the seat vacated by her father, the late Raul Grijalva, in a landslide late last month.
Democrats have railed against Johnson for refusing to swear Grijalva in until the shutdown ends and the House returns to session, accusing him of wanting to block a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. "You just don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge petition," Gallego told Johnson, who responded that the claim is "totally absurd" and said, "You guys are experts at red herrings and distractions."
