House Leaves Early for Holiday After Failure

 

Squeaker of the House Li'l Mike "New Moses" Johnson has had to send his Congress critters home for a long Fourth of July holiday because he and his leadership failed to pass the National Defense Authorization Act when Johnson, after being pressured by the unstable narcissist Malignant Fascist, attached the MF's vote-rigging SAVE (Trump's ass) America bill to the Defense authorization act.  From the Associated Press:

"The House leadership on Tuesday abruptly canceled votes and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker Mike Johnson ’s majority once again ground to a standstill by a Republican revolt over their own party’s agenda.

In this case, it’s a standoff blocking the annual defense bill — with pay raises for the troops and other matters at a time of war — as the renegade Republicans push to include President Donald Trump’s own priority, the SAVE America Act, a strict voter ID bill. Last week, the Senate similarly shuttered after Trump’s demands. [snip]

Johnson spent four hours last week at the White House and said he spent another two hours with the president this week on a path forward.

'I told him, 'Mr. President, I don’t have any tattoos, but if I did, it’d say SAVE America on my shoulder,’ OK?”' Johnson said over the weekend on Fox News.

'We passed it three times in the House already. We’re going to pass it again.'

But by Tuesday, a House vote to advance the legislation collapsed. Republicans led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida argued that Johnson’s plan to attach the voting bill to the defense bill was essentially a doomed strategy that would be rejected in the Senate."  (our emphasis)

Li'l Mike's pathetic ass kissing of the MF is yet another example of the MAGAt Congress deferring its role to the megalomaniac in the Oval Office, meekly doing whatever he wants with no independence, guardrails or oversight as envisioned by Article 1 of the Constitution.  With the MF's approval numbers dropping, and the mid-term elections coming up, the bad times for House MAGAts will only get worse.

(photo: Kyle Cooper / AP)