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Rep. Elise Stefanik<\/strong> (R-NY) stressed that she had a \u201cproductive\u201d conversation with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson<\/strong> (R-LA) on Wednesday afternoon, repeating herself shortly after\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0reported on withering comments<\/a> she had made about Johnson the night before.<\/p>\n \u201cHe certainly wouldn\u2019t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow. I believe that the majority of Republicans would vote for new leadership. It\u2019s that widespread,\u201d Stefanik told the\u00a0Journal, which reported<\/a> that:<\/p>\n Stefanik painted Johnson\u2019s standing with Republicans as in a state of collapse. She cited matters ranging from members criticizing his decision to keep lawmakers in their home districts during the recent government shutdown, to weak showings in special elections and to what she casts as his failure to address the expected jump in healthcare costs if the party doesn\u2019t reach an agreement with Democrats soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cWhereas Kevin McCarthy<\/strong> was a political animal, Mike Johnson is a political novice and boy does it show, with the House Republicans underperforming for the first time in the Trump era,\u201d added Stefanik.<\/p>\n Prior to the publication of the\u00a0Journal\u00a0story, Stefanik had signaled that the pair\u2019s feud had come to an end by tweeting, \u201cGreat news! After a productive discussion I had last night with President Trump and Speaker Johnson, the provision requiring Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office will be included in the IAA\/NDAA bill on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n After her comments the previous evening were made public \u2014 and attracted significant attention online \u2014 Stefanik restated her appreciation of their talk.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I stated in an interview this morning and just now when asked by reporters, I had a very productive conversation with Speaker Johnson last night and I shared my views that House Republicans need to focus on delivering results to the American people,\u201d she wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cWe had a great breakthrough on an important NDAA provision and are moving forward to address the affordability and safety issues impacting NY and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n The post CLEAN-UP ON AISLE ELISE: Stefanik Stresses \u2018Productive\u2019 Talk With Mike Johnson After WSJ Publishes Scathing Criticism<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Rod Lamkey\/AP photos) Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) stressed that she had a \u201cproductive\u201d conversation with Speaker of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,22808,171,49089,60028,8119,197226,5620,125567,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-422664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-elise-stefanik","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-government-shutdown","12":"tag-house-republicans","13":"tag-mike-johnson","14":"tag-productive-conversation","15":"tag-republicans","16":"tag-speaker-of-the-house","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115657802207730746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n