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Speaker Johnson: Cherfilus-McCormick ‘should be expelled’

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he thinks the House will agree that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) should be expelled from Congress. His comments come just a day after both Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who had been facing allegations of sexual misconduct, announced they plan to leave office rather than face expulsion…

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House Speaker Asks Trump to Let Jones Act Shipping Waiver Expire

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House Speaker Asks Trump to Let Jones Act Shipping Waiver Expire

Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans in the US House of Representatives are asking President Donald Trump to allow a waiver of a century-old shipping law granted in March to tame fuel prices to expire.

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House votes down Mike Johnson’s bid to attach SAVE Act with NDAA

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House votes down Mike Johnson’s bid to attach SAVE Act with NDAA

The House of Representatives voted against attaching the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a Tuesday vote. The […]

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Mike Johnson lashes out at hardliners as MAGA voting plot implodes around them: report

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Mike Johnson lashes out at hardliners as MAGA voting plot implodes around them: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) lashed out at far-right rebels in his caucus as their plan to force passage of the SAVE America Act crumbled around them on Tuesday, CNN reported.The SAVE America Act, pushed aggressively by President Donald Trump for months, would add draconian new requirements to voter registration and verification, billed as proof-of-citizenship requirements, that would make it vastly more difficult for millions of people to vote. It doesn't have the votes to pass in the Senate.The plan, spearheaded by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and backed by figures like Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), was to pass a rule attaching the legislation to the must-pass defense spending bill, and play chicken with the Senate to force them to adopt it or let Pentagon funding lapse. However, 14 House Republicans crossed the aisle to oppose the rule, blowing up the plan and leaving the House floor paralyzed.According to the report, while Johnson watched the votes come in against him, "the speaker walked up to two of the lawmakers voting against him with a stark warning," telling Luna and Burchett "that they were wrong, they don’t get it and that their votes would lead to embarrassment, according to three sources familiar with the remarks."The Republicans didn't shift their votes, and Luna remained defiant in conversation with reporters, saying, “The fact that I’m being singled out because I know procedure — I’m not stupid. I’m going to fight on behalf of the American people. They’re saying they won’t, so now that you saw what happened on the floor.”All of this comes as the Trump administration, under pressure by a court order, quietly scraps a major proof-of-citizenship database controlled by the Department of Homeland Security, blowing up a major provision of the SAVE America Act that would have required states to use it.

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Mike Johnson 'railroaded' by his own GOP colleagues for 2nd straight week: report

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Mike Johnson 'railroaded' by his own GOP colleagues for 2nd straight week: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home for the July 4 recess two days early on Tuesday after members of his own party sank a key procedural vote, the second week running that Republican infighting has frozen the House floor.The chamber voted 198-224 to reject a rule that would have merged President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act with the annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. Fourteen Republicans broke ranks, including Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who switched his vote as a procedural move so leaders could revive the measure later.Johnson had tried to satisfy conservative holdouts by packaging the two bills together through a maneuver known as "MIRVing," which directs separately passed legislation to the Senate as a single bundle. It was not enough. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called the plan a "procedural head fake" and said she wanted the voter measure written directly into the defense bill's text. GOP Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Mike Turner of Ohio anchored other pockets of resistance, with Turner pushing to restore pensions for Delphi auto-parts retirees.Because the House must adopt a rule before debating most bills, the standoff ground the chamber to a halt. Johnson can afford to lose only three Republican votes given his slim majority, and he lashed out at the rebels as the plan crumbled."It's frustrating," Johnson told reporters, adding that leaders would regroup and try again after the break. The House returns July 13.According to Punchbowl News, Johnson has now lost nine rule votes across his roughly three-year tenure, while Democrats under Nancy Pelosi lost none between 2019 and 2023 despite similarly narrow margins. The outlet delivered a blunt verdict in its Wednesday newsletter."What good is a House majority if you can’t use it? For the second week in a row, Speaker Mike Johnson was railroaded by his own colleagues in the House Republican Conference," wrote Punchbowl News.

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Mike Johnson's attempt to appease Trump collapses in humiliating fashion: MS NOW

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Mike Johnson's attempt to appease Trump collapses in humiliating fashion: MS NOW

House Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to pass President Donald Trump's Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, by attaching it to the annual defense budget bill, or NDAA, a strategy devised by conservative hardliners led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL). However, the plan backfired when 14 House Republicans blocked the procedural vote, according to Politico. Luna had previously vowed to block all House bills unless the Senate acted on the legislation, but Johnson chose a different approach by combining both measures during the procedural vote. The failure was compounded by Trump's previous claims on Truth Social, when he opposed using the NDAA as leverage for the SAVE America Act. Luna and Johnson proceeded anyway. MS NOW was quick to react, with reporter Mychael Schnell saying, "it's a massive embarrassment and a blow to Speaker Johnson."She continued, "It's never good when a rule vote fails. But the interesting thing here is that the left hand isn't really aware of what the right hand is doing when you talk about Republican leaders, because last week, President Trump had taken to Truth Social and said he did not want these Republicans in the House to be holding hostage these procedural rules in the NDAA in order to get the SAVE America bill passed." The blocked vote has left the House floor paralyzed with no clear path forward for the legislation, though conservatives and Trump remain unwilling to abandon the effort.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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'Went down in flames!' MS NOW frenzied over Mike Johnson's 'massive embarrassment'

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'Went down in flames!' MS NOW frenzied over Mike Johnson's 'massive embarrassment'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attempted an end-run strategy to pass President Donald Trump's anti-voting-rights SAVE America Act through Congress — only for a contingent of Republicans to block it and deal him a fresh humiliation. And MS NOW commenters were quick to react."Mike Johnson just tried to get the SAVE America Act through the House," said anchor Katy Tur, quoting Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman that it "went down in flames" and turning to reporter Mychael Schnell. "What exactly happened?"For starters, said Schnell, Johnson attempted to force it through by attaching it to the annual defense budget bill, or NDAA, "a very core, important piece of must-pass legislation." It was a plan concocted by conservative hardliners, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL)."She has taken it upon herself, amid the President's pressure campaign, to pass this bill, to say that she would not pass any bills in the House unless the Senate acted on this legislation," said Schnell. "The Senate left town, so that opportunity was off the table" — but she said she would stop her protest if it were put to a vote in the House.Meanwhile, Schnell said, "Speaker Johnson chose a different route, trying to combine the two during this procedural vote," only for 14 House Republicans to block it, leading to the failure of a routine procedural vote.The bottom line, she continued, is that "it's a massive embarrassment and a blow to Speaker Johnson. It's never good when a rule vote fails. But the interesting thing here ... is that the left hand isn't really aware of what the right hand is doing when you talk about Republican leaders, because last week, President Trump had taken to Truth Social and said he did not want these Republicans in the House to be holding hostage these procedural rules in the NDAA in order to get the SAVE America bill passed," and Luna and Johnson still did it anyway.As a consequence of all this, said Schnell, "the House floor is right now paralyzed" and "there is still no movement in the SAVE America Act." There's simply no path to get it passed, she said — "but conservatives and the president himself are not yet ready to accept that reality." - YouTube www.youtube.com

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Mike Johnson Accidentally Tanks Defense Budget Bill Over SAVE Act

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Mike Johnson Accidentally Tanks Defense Budget Bill Over SAVE Act

A procedural vote on the National Defense Authorization Act failed to pass the House Tuesday, in no small part because the SAVE America Act was attached to it.The lower chamber voted 198–224 to reject the rule, with 14 Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the last-minute addition of Donald Trump’s voter restriction bill to the proposed Pentagon budget.Representatives Tim Burchett, Eric Burlison, Eli Crane, Randy Fine, Andy Harris, Anna Paulina Luna, Max Miller, Chip Roy, Keith Self, Victoria Spartz, Mike Turner, Thomas Massie, and Lauren Boebert all voted “no.” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise switched his vote, as well, but only so that Republicans could readdress the matter in future.The stalled NDAA vote is a major blow to leaders of both parties, who have historically passed the defense spending package with minimal partisan objections. But the wide rejection also illustrates the low level of support behind the SAVE America Act, despite repeated insistence from the White House that it needs to be turned into law.Since Trump lost the 2020 election, he and his allies have amped up their base over contrived claims of voter fraud, a statistical nonissue in U.S. elections. Trump has worked overtime to force his unpopular election reform proposals through the legislature, throwing confirmation hearings and bipartisan bill signings to the wayside while demanding Republicans prioritize passing the SAVE America Act.The backlash to the bill—which was introduced months ago—has been grave, so much so that it gummed up efforts to fund Homeland Security for several months. Republicans eventually had to bail on the package to end the congressional gridlock.Trump has nonetheless opted to make it a legislative priority once again, effectively paralyzing the House for another week. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that the lower chamber would work on the matter for another day and a half and try to hold another vote by the end of the week.

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Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling imperils national security: Mike Johnson

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Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling imperils national security: Mike Johnson

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship, claiming it jeopardized national security. Conservatives were broadly outraged over Tuesday’s ruling, which ruled 6-3 that Trump’s executive order was unlawful and 5-4 that it was unconstitutional, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, joining […]

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Speaker Johnson: Cherfilus-McCormick ‘should be expelled’

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