Mike Johnson Defiant After GOP Votes Down Its Own Government Funding Bill

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  1. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s spending bill was rejected by Congress on Wednesday after 14 Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the stopgap measures—even after the speaker attached a Trump-endorsed voter registration act to the legislation.

    The House now has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill or face a government shutdown.

    Johnson previously scrapped a vote on the bill last week to spend the weekend rounding up support from hesitant members of his caucus. He also attached the SAVE Act to the legislation, which would prohibit states from registering non-citizens as voters—something Johnson himself has admitted is already illegal under federal law.

    “If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form,” Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier on Wednesday.

    Johnson was defiant, chalking the loss up to “the legislative process at work.” Speaking to a group of reporters, Johnson said “the play that we ran tonight was the right play. It’s the right fight for the American people. It’s the one that they demand and deserve.”

    He added that there was plenty of time to “draw up another play”—but did not elaborate on what that might look like.

    Later in the evening on Fox News, Johnson criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats for not bringing any of the Republican House majority’s appropriations bills up for a vote.

    “There’s nothing that we can negotiate because there’s nothing on the table, Johnson told host Sean Hannity. “We’re pushed into this scenario, this dilemma, because of the Senate’s inability, or unwillingness, to do their job.

    The Republicans who joined the Democrats to defeat the bill included Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona.

  2. His party alone has enough votes to pass the bill it wrote.

    Blames the Democrats for his party not passing the bill.

    ….

    Yup… that’s about right.

  3. So Republicans with a majority can’t pass a spending bill they made?

  7. Just when the Fed lower rates to get the market ripping, the GOP finds a way to ruin things.

    Again.

  8. One thing I’ll say as a credit to the American public. The last couple of shutdowns have gone poorly for the GOP because people have started to see through their messaging. At least on that issue.

    It isn’t 15 years ago anymore. We know exactly who is responsible if the government shuts down.

  11. Mike Johnson is a door mat and he doesn’t even know it.

  12. Perhaps a last gasp for him. Pass a stopgap without the voting bill sidecar. government shutdown averted. He has to know there is no salvaging his speaker position after the circus this has become. Do the right thing and move on.

  13. Reminder that Mike Johnson thinks people walked with dinosaurs 6,000 years ago

  14. I‘m so fucking confused by US House politics. What the fuck is this all about?

    So, Johnson wants to put a poison pill into the government funding law? And some of his right wing nuts oppose it, because they do not want to fund the government at all? And all Democrats oppose it because of the poison pill?

  15. He has no intention of passing a bill. This is for Trump

  17. The Republicans have the votes to write a bill containing anything they want and pass it to the Senate. They can’t even do that.

    They wrote a spending bill themselves and couldn’t get it passed and blamed Democrats. This 100% falls on Republicans.

  18. Go ahead republicans, shut down the government one month before the election. I dare you. Vote blue folks, vote these clowns out

  19. Mainstream media: Why this is bad for Kamala and the Democrats. More on this story at 11.

  20. If you can’t pass a bill that you introduced and you hold the votes to pass it and it still fails you need to resign. How can you lead when you can’t even get your team on the same page. What a waste of time

  21. Do we have a website that notes the bills and who voted for and against them?
    Along with summarizes of the bills and party affiliations of the voters.

  23. The GOP is a waste of taxpayer money; been like this for decades. Will their base ever learn…decades upon decades says nope.

  24. Contrarian agents of chaos, paid by and working for hostile foreign groups.

  25. Stop paying the lawmakers, and sequester them until they can work out and pass a budget. No matter how long it takes.

  30. If the government shuts down as Trump wants, does this mean he loses his Secret Service protection since they are part of the federal government? If I were him, given the events over the last couple of months, losing my most capable security detail would be the last thing I’d want.

  31. What would Jesus do Mike. Not orange Jesus, the other one

  33. Fascism is a bitch like that. If you really look at the Republican Party they’ve already fallen into fascism. They can’t do anything unless their master approves. And Trump isn’t polling well so he’s throwing his tantrum like the tyrant he is. He doesn’t care if Americans suffer as long as his narcissism is satiated.

    Which is stupid because none of that will help him win the election. But I figure he knows that and is just leaning on his base now. He is too insecure to do anything that appeals to independent voters cause a lot of what he needs to do there would require selflessness and consideration and most importantly putting his needs second to the voters.

  36. According to Jeff Jackson its
    1. Loonies demand silly stuff
    2. Mike pretends to show support for the loonies
    3. Mike does not actually support the loonies
    4. Loonies go on TV and yell at Mike
    5. Mike gets government funding bill, loonies get nothing

  37. They always wait until the last minute. It’s leverage for their political advantage. You have to be a citizen to vote in our elections. Making another law creates the illusion that undocumented people are voting. I don’t believe that’s happening with any type of significant numbers if at all

  38. When things like this happen. Kamala needs to bring this up in her speeches.

  39. this guy’s single purpose is to try and steal the upcoming election for daddy trump – basically cause chaos and kick it up to SCOTUS

  40. Republicants: “Government doesn’t work. Elect us and we’ll show you.”

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