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“He’s a Reagan Republican, not a Trump Republican,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) in a Zoom call organized by No Labels and attended by a few hundred of the group’s supporters. Fitzpatrick is part of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus that is backed by No Labels.

 

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Johnson's first legislative decision seems to be a blunder, to the surprise of no one.

 

Biden asked for $106B for Israel, Ukraine, immigration, and humanitarian aid. Johnson's counter offer is $14B for Israel along with cuts to the IRS. He didn't even bother to keep the funding for immigration. It's unclear if he even has sufficient House GOP support to get this passed. It would be extra hilarious if he doesn't.

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Just now, TwinIon said:

Johnson's first legislative decision seems to be a blunder, to the surprise of no one.

 

Biden asked for $106B for Israel, Ukraine, immigration, and humanitarian aid. Johnson's counter offer is $14B for Israel along with cuts to the IRS. He didn't even bother to keep the funding for immigration. It's unclear if he even has sufficient House GOP support to get this passed. It would be extra hilarious if he doesn't.


Does it only take a single vote for a motion to oust with Johnson too?

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1 hour ago, Jason said:
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The newly elected Republican House speaker and his wife, Kelly, have long intertwined their political and business lives.

 

he also apparently deleted all his podcast or whatever where he just spouted his usual bigotry stuff 

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2 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

So with how obsessed he is with homosexuality, there’s a 99.9998% he’s done things with other men, some underage.

 

These types always tell on themselves.

 

He raised a secret black child who he never actually adopted.

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With these guys it's hard to know if it's a poor attempt to hide something or if they're just incompetent, but it seems the website for their podcast is down. https://www.mikeandkellyjohnson.com/ just reports a Wix error, but it was available in October as seen on Wayback machine. Of course, the podcasts themselves are still on the podcast platforms, so if this was an attempt to hide anything, it's not a very good one. Either way, I'd guess they say some pretty controversial things over those 69 episodes, not that I'll be going through them to find out.

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“He indicated he’s supportive, but the way it’s put together in a supplemental needs a lot of work,” said Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) of Ukraine aid.

 

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Speaker Mike Johnson told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that he supports aiding Ukraine — though he drew a hard line against combining it with money for Israel.

 

Johnson’s stance presents a challenge to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who want to stitch together funding for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and U.S.-Mexico border security. But the newly elected speaker did give senators something to work with by making clear that he supports new money for Ukraine's defense against Russia, even if it's not comparable in size or scope to what President Joe Biden wants.

 

Johnson also told senators that beefed-up border security and Ukraine funding are “inextricably intertwined,” according to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Effectively, the Louisiana Republican signaled that he views Israel funding as one debate, and a border-Ukraine negotiation as entirely separate.

 

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said that if Johnson were to try and combine all of the moving parts that Schumer and McConnell want blended, “his caucus would revolt and it would probably be the end of the speakership.”

 

“He said over and over, ‘Listen — for me it's just numbers. I cannot do them together,’” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said of Johnson’s position on Ukraine and Israel.

 

 

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“He indicated he’s supportive, but the way it’s put together in a supplemental needs a lot of work,” said Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) of Ukraine aid.

 

 

Thats one way to get the spotlight off of him for a short while. 

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2 hours ago, Jason said:
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Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has already drawn scrutiny for his past espousal of Biblical literalist beliefs and his role in trying to obstruct the certification of the 2020...

 


 

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"Over the course of seven years, Johnson has never reported a checking or savings account in his name, nor in the name of his wife or any of his children, disclosures show. In fact, he doesn’t appear to have money stashed in any investments, with his latest filing — covering 2022 — showing no assets whatsoever.”


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