Home Speaker Mike Johnson remains to be defending his asinine determination to maintain the Home in recess for greater than a month.
Johnson additionally claimed that there’s “plenty of time” left within the yr for Republicans to do the legislative work that they had been elected to do—regardless that that’s under no circumstances true.
Not a single particular person spending invoice wanted to fund authorities features for the whole fiscal yr has made it to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature. The truth is, the stopgap persevering with decision that Republicans handed in September is about to run out on Nov. 21. So even when the federal government reopened immediately, that will give Congress lower than a month to cross the longer-term spending payments wanted to maintain the federal government open.
Republicans are additionally not engaged on laws to increase Reasonably priced Care Act subsidies to forestall thousands and thousands of Individuals’ medical insurance premiums from doubling, which is why the federal government has shut down within the first place. Although quite a few GOP lawmakers are actually privately fretting that not taking motion will damage their get together within the 2026 midterms.
A closed signal stands in entrance of the Nationwide Archives on the primary day of a authorities shutdown on Oct. 1.
As for the “meaningful” work that Johnson says Republicans are doing of their districts, it actually can’t be city corridor conferences to listen to constituents’ issues.
Johnson instructed Republicans to not maintain city halls, since voters are exhibiting as much as yell at them for reducing Medicaid and meals stamps and for permitting Trump to wreck the economic system together with his idiotic tariffs.
The truth is, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa—one of the crucial weak Republicans up for reelection in 2026—mentioned that she’ll maintain a city corridor “when hell freezes over.”
Maybe the “meaningful” work contains virulently racist Rep. Randy Wonderful of Florida making an attempt to “denaturalize and deport” New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
“I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Wonderful instructed the New York Publish Saturday.
Then there’s Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who met with the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund throughout his go to to the US to attempt to persuade Trump and the GOP to not impose sanctions on Russia for focusing on harmless civilians in its evil battle on Ukraine.
And we are able to’t overlook Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who’s been persevering with his investigations into the Biden administration in an try and gin up anger among the many proper. What a “meaningful” use of his time.
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Different Republicans are merely utilizing their break day to defend Trump from no matter new scandal is plaguing his administration, whether or not or not it’s his demolition of the White Home, his demonization of the large “No Kings” protests, or his $230 million shakedown of U.S. taxpayers.
Regardless of his many excuses, the explanation that Johnson would not need to convey the Home again from recess is as a result of it could power him to swear in Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who can be the ultimate signature to power a vote on releasing the Epstein information—which Trump doesn’t need made public.
On the finish of the day, voters are unlikely to purchase Johnson’s spin that it’s extra “meaningful” for Republicans to be on trip than it’s for them to be doing their jobs.
