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Apr 21, 2024 0:43:46 GMT -5
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Speaker Mike Johnson Celebrates Democrats Seizing House: âWeâre Happyâ
WENDELL HUSEBĂ
20 Apr 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to force President Joe Bidenâs priority of Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.
âWe look forward to every member voting their conscience and their desire, and that is exactly how this process is supposed to work and how the house is supposed to operate,â Johnson told reporters on Friday after passing a rules bill. âSo weâre happy to provide that.â
Democrats had a reason to bail Johnson out: heâs not former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. âMcCarthy was both incompetent and dishonest,â Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) said, but âJohnson is just incompetent.â
Johnsonâs inexplicable decision to work with Democrats on passing Bidenâs Ukraine agenda occurred twice over the course of two days:
Thursday: Johnson made history by relying on Democrats on the House Rules Committee to overcome objections from the majority and advance a rule bill to the House floor.
Friday: Democrats seized the House and helped Johnson clear a key procedural hurdle on the rule bill to set up Saturdayâs floor vote. Voting âyesâ were 165 Democrats and only 151 Republicans.
âThis is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances to take care of these really important obligations,â Johnson argued.
âWe introduced the loan concept for the governmental assistance party to be provided in a loan instead of a gift,â he said about funding Ukraineâs border and not the U.S. border.
âEveryone can vote their will and their constituentsâ desires on the Israel aid, the Ukrainian aid, the Indo Pacific, and then our fourth national security package,â Johnson said:
Immediately after Fridayâs vote, GOP Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) signed on to the motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership, becoming the third member to do so, joining Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
âItâs official: âŚ@speakerjohnson is no longer the GOP Speaker of the House, but Speaker for the Unipartyâs $1.5T deficit, warrantless spying on Americans, and a foreign aid bill with more deficit spending than Schumerâs budget buster,â Sen. Rand Paul posted on X, sharing a New York Times article. The Timesâ article underscored Johnsonâs decision to essentially allow Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to take control of the Republican-controlled House.
Johnson, who previously opposed funding Ukraineâs border, was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid by his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war, Breitbart News exclusively reported Wednesday:
Johnsonâs policy director, Dan Ziegler, wasâuntil he joined the Speakerâs office as his top policy aide when Johnson won the Speakership last yearâa lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen. He had previously worked for Johnson in other capacities, but left Johnson to become a lobbyist and accumulated a client list that included several top companiesâsome of which seem to have a financial interest in seeing Congress pass Ukraine aid. The lobbying firm for which he worked represents a number of top companies. Lobbying disclosures reveal Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations.
Ziegler is not the only one in Johnsonâs inner circle who has issues. Several other staffers working for Johnson have a series of troubling developments in their backgrounds, and as of now it is unclear if the Speaker himself is aware of all of this or not. Either way, this raises serious questions about his management of the conference and his handling of major legislative proposals like the foreign aid plan before Congress this weekâand it undercuts the explanation several Johnson apologists have offered up that he is just having a tough time managing a one-seat majority and things would not be different if he resigned and Republicans picked a new Speaker.
This Breitbart News investigation is the product of research of lobbying disclosures, interviews with a number of highly-connected insidersâmost of whom would not speak on record for fear of reprisalâand aggressive questioning of the Speakerâs office and his staff, including questioning of top aides. Here, for the first time, is the inside story of how globalists undercut the America First movement from inside Speaker Johnsonâs office, and how the Speaker himself has now authorized them to go scorched earth in attacks against any conservatives and supporters of former President Donald Trump who seek to hold him accountable and block the four-pronged foreign aid scheme he outlined on Monday evening and introduced on Wednesday. The Speaker intends to set up a Saturday evening vote in the House of Representatives on the plan that completely abandons border security and instead pushes to funnel tens of billions more U.S. tax dollars to foreign countries like Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. In a string of recent betrayals by the Speakerâthe recent government funding plan and last weekâs reauthorization of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without a requirement for warrants for surveillance on American citizensâthis one stings America First conservatives even more. Despite calls for his resignation from top conservative Republicans like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY)âwho say they are prepared to vote to remove Johnson by force if necessaryâJohnson has tripled down in moving forward on the matter, not just completely ignoring conservatives aligned with former President Donald Trump who are openly criticizing the effort, but authorizing staff and allies like House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) to attack them in order to achieve congressional passage of this radical agenda. McCaul, as Breitbart News reported earlier on Wednesday, launched an unhinged attack on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over Ukraine aid. McCaul is one of Johnsonâs top allies and quickly endorsed Johnsonâs foreign aid framework without even having read the plan because it had yet been introduced when he publicly backed it. A day later, finally, the Speakerâs office released bill text.
The House is expected to vote on Saturday.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Celebrates Democrats Seizing House: âWeâre Happyâ
WENDELL HUSEBĂ
20 Apr 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to force President Joe Bidenâs priority of Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.
âWe look forward to every member voting their conscience and their desire, and that is exactly how this process is supposed to work and how the house is supposed to operate,â Johnson told reporters on Friday after passing a rules bill. âSo weâre happy to provide that.â
Democrats had a reason to bail Johnson out: heâs not former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. âMcCarthy was both incompetent and dishonest,â Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) said, but âJohnson is just incompetent.â
Johnsonâs inexplicable decision to work with Democrats on passing Bidenâs Ukraine agenda occurred twice over the course of two days:
Thursday: Johnson made history by relying on Democrats on the House Rules Committee to overcome objections from the majority and advance a rule bill to the House floor.
Friday: Democrats seized the House and helped Johnson clear a key procedural hurdle on the rule bill to set up Saturdayâs floor vote. Voting âyesâ were 165 Democrats and only 151 Republicans.
âThis is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances to take care of these really important obligations,â Johnson argued.
âWe introduced the loan concept for the governmental assistance party to be provided in a loan instead of a gift,â he said about funding Ukraineâs border and not the U.S. border.
âEveryone can vote their will and their constituentsâ desires on the Israel aid, the Ukrainian aid, the Indo Pacific, and then our fourth national security package,â Johnson said:
Immediately after Fridayâs vote, GOP Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) signed on to the motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership, becoming the third member to do so, joining Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
âItâs official: âŚ@speakerjohnson is no longer the GOP Speaker of the House, but Speaker for the Unipartyâs $1.5T deficit, warrantless spying on Americans, and a foreign aid bill with more deficit spending than Schumerâs budget buster,â Sen. Rand Paul posted on X, sharing a New York Times article. The Timesâ article underscored Johnsonâs decision to essentially allow Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to take control of the Republican-controlled House.
Johnson, who previously opposed funding Ukraineâs border, was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid by his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war, Breitbart News exclusively reported Wednesday:
Johnsonâs policy director, Dan Ziegler, wasâuntil he joined the Speakerâs office as his top policy aide when Johnson won the Speakership last yearâa lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen. He had previously worked for Johnson in other capacities, but left Johnson to become a lobbyist and accumulated a client list that included several top companiesâsome of which seem to have a financial interest in seeing Congress pass Ukraine aid. The lobbying firm for which he worked represents a number of top companies. Lobbying disclosures reveal Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations.
Ziegler is not the only one in Johnsonâs inner circle who has issues. Several other staffers working for Johnson have a series of troubling developments in their backgrounds, and as of now it is unclear if the Speaker himself is aware of all of this or not. Either way, this raises serious questions about his management of the conference and his handling of major legislative proposals like the foreign aid plan before Congress this weekâand it undercuts the explanation several Johnson apologists have offered up that he is just having a tough time managing a one-seat majority and things would not be different if he resigned and Republicans picked a new Speaker.
This Breitbart News investigation is the product of research of lobbying disclosures, interviews with a number of highly-connected insidersâmost of whom would not speak on record for fear of reprisalâand aggressive questioning of the Speakerâs office and his staff, including questioning of top aides. Here, for the first time, is the inside story of how globalists undercut the America First movement from inside Speaker Johnsonâs office, and how the Speaker himself has now authorized them to go scorched earth in attacks against any conservatives and supporters of former President Donald Trump who seek to hold him accountable and block the four-pronged foreign aid scheme he outlined on Monday evening and introduced on Wednesday. The Speaker intends to set up a Saturday evening vote in the House of Representatives on the plan that completely abandons border security and instead pushes to funnel tens of billions more U.S. tax dollars to foreign countries like Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. In a string of recent betrayals by the Speakerâthe recent government funding plan and last weekâs reauthorization of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without a requirement for warrants for surveillance on American citizensâthis one stings America First conservatives even more. Despite calls for his resignation from top conservative Republicans like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY)âwho say they are prepared to vote to remove Johnson by force if necessaryâJohnson has tripled down in moving forward on the matter, not just completely ignoring conservatives aligned with former President Donald Trump who are openly criticizing the effort, but authorizing staff and allies like House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) to attack them in order to achieve congressional passage of this radical agenda. McCaul, as Breitbart News reported earlier on Wednesday, launched an unhinged attack on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over Ukraine aid. McCaul is one of Johnsonâs top allies and quickly endorsed Johnsonâs foreign aid framework without even having read the plan because it had yet been introduced when he publicly backed it. A day later, finally, the Speakerâs office released bill text.
The House is expected to vote on Saturday.
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