“Something is very wrong,” Tucker Carlson said when discussing the recent actions of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). House Speaker Johnson disappointed many of his conservative allies after initially presenting a 1,547-page spending bill that ultimately delivered victory for Democrats.
Eduardo Nereto, a former producer of Mr. Carlson and a conservative commentator, brought up a disastrous spending bill negotiated by Mr. Johnson that effectively jeopardized his future as speaker.
“On the eve of President Trump's inauguration, just before Christmas, he… tried to force a vote on a 1,500-page spending bill that would give Chuck Schumer full power over the debt ceiling for next year,” Nereto said. Ta.
“I mean, there was a lot more to the bill than that, but I mean, I think the important thing is, what did it do?” he asked.
“Something is fundamentally wrong,” Carlson said, adding that Johnson's top priority appears to be funding Ukraine.
“I don't understand exactly, but I saw him making the funding of the Presidency to Ukraine a top priority without any audit, at a time when America's borders were open and America itself was being invaded. He was guarding the border of a country he didn't speak the language of and knew nothing about. That's not America,” Carlson continued, adding, “He's putting his interests ahead of ours. It's not just America.”
Carlson pointed out that such an act could be called treasonous.
“So, I'm not going to overstate it. I think it's some kind of treason, yeah, it's common in Washington,” he explained, adding that he doesn't think Mr. Johnson would behave that way in Washington, D.C. He made it clear that he was not the only politician to do so.
“Once you see something like that, and I'm not the only one, but I am too, you completely lose faith in humanity,” he said of the chairman, who blasted the original agreement on social media, effectively debunking it. He praised Elon Musk for blocking the deal.
“I wasn't shocked by what happened, but I was very happy to see that Elon Musk basically single-handedly stopped it, which is amazing,” he said. added.
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On Friday, the House handed Democrats a major victory by expanding spending levels in a renegotiated measure, with no Democrats opposed.
As Breitbart News reported:
The House will once again fulfill its obligation to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, this time through March 14, 2025, and will meet Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in February and March 2024. Extended negotiated spending levels and policy priorities. And President Joe Biden.
Zero Democrats voted against the bill. A whopping 196 people voted in favor of starting the Christmas holidays early, with 1 person voting and 14 people missing the vote.
The 170 Republicans who want to go home for Christmas also voted in favor of the bill, with 34 voting against it and 15 absent.
Mr Johnson's chairmanship is in jeopardy as the negotiations have displeased many of his conservative colleagues. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) has become the first person to formally announce that he will not support Mr. Johnson in the January 3, 2025, House of Representatives election.
