Mike Johnson Sends House Home Early So He Can Hobnob With Paris Elitists | Days away from a government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson has sent the House of Representatives home early for the weekend so he can catch a flight to Paris.
by newfrontier58
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It’s not like they were going to accomplish anything anyway.
First half:
>Despite having little more than a week to avert a government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson seems to have sent representatives home early so he could catch a flight to Paris to attend a far-right conference.
Congress has just eight days to figure out how to fund the government and avoid a crippling shutdown. To say that Republican priorities have been elsewhere would be a massive understatement. Johnson has yet to reveal the details of his supposed plan to prevent a shutdown, but he is set to speak Saturday in Paris.
Johnson’s early dismissal on Thursday may have been because he needed to rush across the Atlantic Ocean to appear at the Worldwide Freedom Initiative. The inaugural conference was organized by the groups Republicans Overseas Worldwide and Republicans Overseas France, with the goal of bringing together “the world’s like-minded conservative, patriotic and center right leaders.”
It seems that Johnson is a bit of a special guest for the WFI. He gave the keynote speech at the group’s launch event on July 4.
Other speakers at the Paris conference include South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, and former Trump aide Corey Lewandowski. Noem and Lewandowski have reportedly been having a years-long affair, despite Noem still being married to her husband of more than 30 years, Bryon Noem.
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us.
A high ranking Republican in Washington has done something that benefits themselves personally, but ignores their job responsibility to their constituency and the American people in general?
I’m shocked, I tell you…SHOCKED!
I wonder what the GOP zealots think about stunts or decisions like this? Is this making it great again?
Kinda like Ted Cruz heading to Cancun when Texas froze over.
Gotta leave the country for a meeting with his financiers.
So they’re really going to shut the federal government down a week before Thanksgiving.
And they think this will create a situation they can pin on Biden?
At some point I think we can admit the GOP has a learning disability that prevents them from learning to not touch the hot stove. The past shut downs get blamed on them because we can all tell who started it.
How did he buy a ticket? He doesn’t have a bank account…
These fucks need to be paid hourly, monitored, and outcome based. Unbelievable.
No Budget = no paycheck.
Recess = no paycheck.
This zero accountability bullshit has got to go.
oh we are DEFINITELY shutting down. god dammit.
How are they going to get Hunter Biden impeached?
“Trust us” he said. To do what I wonder. Trust them to burn it all down?
I think most Americans that live check to check and don’t even have a bank account do this most weekends. Normal, right?
Sorry, I don’t care what party you belong to: they should be required to remain in DC until they pass a budget.
For a guy without a bank account, he sure gets around. Will his speaking fees come in brown paper bags stuffed with cash?
He has to go there to talk to his Russian handlers
And $20 says in a few days we will get reports that some of those he is meeting are directly tied to Putin.
He clearly wants a government shutdown. Then, someone can come in to make the trains run on time. It’s all part of the ongoing slow coup. It would only be more obvious if somebody was holding up military promotions for no reason….
Weird how these hyper-nationalist “patriots” are so globalist sometimes.
Does his porn software work if he has his phone in airplane mode? 🤔
But everyone says he’s dirt poor and can’t even afford a bank account?
Something is really, really fishy here.
But then again our Supreme Court accepts bribes all the time and ignores taxes, ethics, etc. Then complains whenever anyone notices and says something!
This guy is on a mission from God to destroy the US for daring to elect a Democratic President. The sooner this guy gets booted the better.
>Congress has just eight days to figure out how to fund the government and avoid a crippling shutdown…Johnson has yet to reveal the details of his supposed plan to prevent a shutdown, but he is set to speak Saturday in Paris.
The plan is to have a government shutdown and blame it on Biden.
Why wouldn’t it be?
Johnson could have passed an Israel funding bill that Biden would sign
Instead he passed one that proposed cutting IRS funding to “free up” money for Israel.
Why? Because Democrats won’t pass it in the Senate and Biden won’t sign it, so he and House Republicans can yell that Democrats don’t support Israel.
Given *that level* of partisan gamesmanship, it seems highly probable that the plan is to let the government shut down and blame Democrats.
If they *do* pass a spending bill, it will be a bullshit one.
Odds are that the Senate jams them with a bill, but I bet they scrap over it while the clock ticks down
>Johnson’s early dismissal on Thursday may have been because he needed to rush across the Atlantic Ocean to appear at the Worldwide Freedom Initiative. The inaugural conference was organized by the groups Republicans Overseas Worldwide and Republicans Overseas France, with the goal of bringing together “the world’s like-minded conservative, patriotic and center right leaders.”
Oh so he will be the Belle of the Ball, bragging about how he’s breaking government and setting up people to suffer *just by being there*
Have you not been paying attention? This is what the crazies in Congress want. The last guy was booted because he kept the government open.
Johnson is a noob.
Averting a government shut down right before Christmas that would trigger a global a recession is a higher priority than giving a keynote speech to European fascists.
Mainstream Republicans should be up in arms.
>Other scheduled speakers at the Paris conference included South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, and former Trump aide Corey Lewandowski. Noem and Lewandowski have reportedly been having a years-long affair, despite Noem still being married to her husband of more than 30 years, Bryon Noem.
How about those ‘christian values’ from leadership.
They don’t want that stupid man in France.
Why don’t they lose their minds about him spending Veterans Day abroad rather than honoring our veterans? If this were a Democrat they’d be losing their minds.
He’s got his priorities…and they’ve got nothing to do with his fellow citizens.
Probably going to propose the plan a day before the shutdown to not give the senate adequate time to review and when/if it does not pass they can blame the democrats in the senate for holding it up. Calling it now.