Rage Grows Toward Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson has already angered House conservatives, and his theocratic ideas have Democrats turning away.
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House Conservatives Sour On MAGA Mike
Who outside of everyone not named Rep. Mike Johnson could have seen this coming?
Speaker Mike Johnson, in office for just a few weeks, hatched this plan to stagger funding deadlines for federal agencies in January and February.
However, this infuriated conservative Republicans who helped propel Johnson into the speaker’s chair only weeks ago. Just over half of the House GOP conference backed Johnson’s proposal on Tuesday, while Democrats overwhelmingly voted yes.
And on Wednesday, moderate and conservative House Republicans defeated the rule for the Commerce-Justice-Science funding bill, handing Johnson and other GOP leaders another stinging defeat even as members streamed out of the Capitol for the holiday recess.
The problem with Speaker Johnson’s ‘laddered CR’ was that it depended on House Republicans passin…
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