All posts tagged "Speaker Mike Johnson"

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans have all but given up on governing this year.

So they’re off to go campaign the rest of the summer despite — in the recent estimation of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — the nation being mired in “crisis” and “decline” over issues squarely in Congress’ purview, ranging from immigration to inflation to international relations.

After Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republican leaders embarrassingly had to pull four funding bills from the House floor this summer over internal party disagreements, this week GOP leaders just decided to pull the plug on legislating and start their summer recess early. ...

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is expected to survive a challenge from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other far-right Republicans next week, but the goal isn’t to elect a new speaker. At least not this time around.

The goal is to move today’s GOP even further to the right, they indicate, and Johnson’s the perfect prop for this latest political ploy.

While most Republicans oppose Greene’s plan to formally call for a vote on her motion to vacate Johnson’s – the same tool used last autumn to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy – she doesn’t care what her fellow Republicans are saying. ...

The political party who put forward speaker nominations including a man who believes critical race theory should be "defunded" and another who described himself as Ku Klux Klan chief David Duke, but "without the baggage," is racist, a former White House reporter contends.

Salon columnist Brian Karem Thursday compared the Grand Old Party's "clown show" effort to elect a speaker of the House with the antics of a former U.S. President, who currently faces criminal charges in two states and the District of Columbia.

"The party is racist, misogynistic, anti-poor, elitist, delusional and greedy for power at all costs," Karem wrote. "That also perfectly describes Trump. This is his spirit writ large, trying and failing on another grand scale."...

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is one of the House of Representatives’ least wealthy members, according to federal financial disclosures reviewed by Raw Story.

Johnson, who won the speakership Wednesday with 220 votes from the entire GOP caucus three weeks after the ouster of former Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), reported no assets on his latest annual report filed on Aug. 11. He also reported no assets on his 2021 report as well.

Johnson, an ally of former President Donald Trump who opposed certifying the 2020 election, stands in contrast to Trump, whose multi-billion-dollar business empire is currently being questioned in a New York civil fraud case. ...