New Home Speaker Mike Johnson Needs Ladies to Pop Out ‘In a position-Bodied Staff’ to Fund Social Safety
Pricey reader, with a heavy coronary heart, I remorse to introduce you to our new Home Speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.). After three lengthy weeks of Home Republicans debasing themselves (and debasing former Speaker nominees Steve Scalise (R-La.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Tom Emmer (R-Minn.)) to discover a new Speaker, the caucus went with Johnson late Tuesday evening, and voted him into the position Wednesday afternoon after a single poll.
The place earlier nominees flailed round, caucus assist for Johnson was resounding. Scalise and Jordan have been each Speaker nominees for various odd days earlier than it turned clear there was no path ahead; Jordan noticed massive rifts form in his relationships with a handful of his caucus after they acquired a slew of demise and different threats in his identify. Emmer was the nominee for simply over the run-time of Avengers: Endgame. However when Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) nominated Johnson on the Home flooring, caucus members reportedly cheered and chanted, “Mike! Mike! Mike!”
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In his remarks, not solely does Johnson declare Roe “gave constitutional cowl to the elective killing of unborn youngsters,” however he rails towards the imagined financial detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social safety: “Take into consideration the implications of that on the financial system. We’re all struggling right here to cowl the bases of social safety and Medicare and Medicaid and all the remaining,” Johnson says. “If we had all these able-bodied staff within the financial system we wouldn’t be going the other way up and toppling over like this… Roe was a horrible corruption.” Thoughts you, social safety and well being care have been gutted within the final a number of years by Republican lawmakers, not individuals who select to finish a being pregnant.
Alas, that is the person who can be presiding over the Home shifting ahead because the threat of another government shutdown looms. That is the person who can be relied on to forge the bipartisan agreements essential to go a funds and hold the wheels of our authorities in movement. You’ll should excuse me if I’m not feeling overly optimistic about issues proper now.
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