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😨   Republicans turn on House speaker as shutdown deadline nears

House Speaker Mike Johnson is making no one happy, including his leadership team and Republican conference. They are looking to him to lead in averting a government shutdown, and they are getting sermons instead. Senior lawmakers are looking to him to make decisions on those funding bills, and he’s giving them lectures on the process of passing bills, a thing they know a lot more about than him since he hasn’t had the job of appropriating, ever. One of those senior lawmakers, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, was pretty brutal in his assessment. “Now, we are in a fully Johnson-run House, and he’s got to own all the decision making in the 12 appropriations bills.

Daily Kos     Feb 22, 2024