House Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly canceled his speaking slot at Turning Point USA's annual America Fest following the announcement of a disastrous spending bill that is largely seen as a dismal failure of his leadership. There is.
Johnson was originally scheduled He will attend the event in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, joining other featured speakers including Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and President-elect Donald Trump himself.
Johnson's alleged move to bow out comes as he faces a huge backlash over the well over 1,500-page spending deal published on Tuesday night. Conservatives continue to expose a lot of pork in the Continuing Resolution (CR), which includes provisions that would allow Congress to raise salaries and withdraw from Obamacare.
Many Republicans have criticized the Speaker, who negotiated the bill on behalf of the Republican Party, for failing to submit a clean CR and instead submitting this bill (which many claim is omnibus). This caused him to get angry. According to them, he was underachieving and some had harsher words than others.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said, “I would have liked to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a spine, but seeing this bill full of pork makes me realize he's a weak, weak man. I understand,” he said.
“The debt will continue to rise. Eventually the dollar will collapse. Democrats are ignorant and big government Republicans are complicit. It's a sad day for America,” he added.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mich.) said Johnson “personally killed the bipartisan, bicameral expansion and spending cap RECA agreement,” and blamed Johnson for the failure. He accused him of doing so.
“He was alone. But he's going to spend billions of dollars on Ukraine and foreign wars and every pork barrel project known to man,” he said, later concluding that Johnson had caved to lobbyists.
A number of House Republicans also voiced opposition to the bill, questioning how Republican leaders could believe a pork-filled bill would be acceptable given the clear mandate Americans gave the Republican Party in November. It shows.
As a result of failing to produce a good CR, Mr. Johnson's speaking ability is now in jeopardy. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said publicly for the first time that he would not support Mr. Johnson in the Jan. 3 speaker election.
Massey: “I’ll vote for someone else.” saidaccording to Politico. “I have a few things on my mind. I'm not going to say anything yet.”
Other countries have indicated they are prepared to withdraw support as well.
“We're going to cross that bridge on January 3rd, so this is going to create problems for the speaker,” said Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus. spoke. Breitbart News Daily Asked on Thursday if he would support Mr Johnson in January, he said: “There's no question about it. Is this the kind of leadership we're going to have?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) suggested a similar idea.
“As far as I know, the government may shut down until January 20th. And we must stand firm against the American people to stop this madness!! No matter what ” she said. “Even if we have to elect a new leader. I'm all in.”
