https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/12/congress/johnson-maintains-bipartisan-spending-plan-00135318 Speaker Mike Johnson defied the MAGA flank Friday morning, suggesting that he would maintain a bipartisan spending deal that they despise.
Delivering a written statement to reporters, Johnson nodded to conservative anger about the agreement that he negotiated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But he added that "our top line agreement remains."
"We are getting our next steps together and we are working toward a robust appropriations process,” Johnson said. He declined to answer further questions.
Conservatives have criticized the speaker both publicly and privately over the deal this week, calling on him to negotiate a new agreement with steeper funding cuts. That fury from his right flank grew Friday morning, with another lawmaker raising the idea of booting Johnson from the speakership.
“That is a failing, losing strategy and I will never support it. I'll fight it as much as possible. Even if I have to go so far to vacate the chair. And there's others that agree with me,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters after a meeting with Johnson earlier Friday, referring to the process that would remove a speaker. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has also floated the idea.
Just an hour before his announcement, Johnson met with a group comprised of mostly House GOP centrists, who emphasized that a government shutdown would be damaging to members fighting for reelection in battleground districts. Some also argued that reneging on his bipartisan budget deal with congressional leaders hurt his brand moving forward, according to a GOP lawmaker who was in the room, granted anonymity to speak frankly about internal discussions.
That Republican centrist said they warned Johnson that he would look “weak” if he succumbed to the demands of his right wing.
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“We’ve got to govern. … And, by the way, I think 90 or 95 percent of us are fully in sync on this,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is in a district President Joe Biden won in 2020. Asked about the ouster threat, Bacon warned that it was inescapable given the thin majority. But he added of conservatives' warnings: “Most of us can’t stand any of this stuff. I would say the majority of the majority we’re angry about this shit. We’re tired of it.” Conservatives had met with the GOP leader earlier this week, asking him to abandon the bipartisan deal and work out new spending terms with them. That plan would have raised the odds of a partial government shutdown — since the Democratic-controlled Senate would almost certainly reject it — which is set to kick in on Jan. 20. Johnson hasn’t addressed if he will try to pass a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, which will be necessary to avoid a partial shutdown. Schumer has indicated that the Senate will vote on such legislation next week. Johnson’s statement follows a chaotic 24 hours of speculation about whether he would back out of the bipartisan agreement he announced with other congressional leaders on Sunday. Members of the House Freedom Caucus and their allies emerged from his office Thursday claiming that they were renegotiating the deal. Conservatives have fumed that the agreement doesn’t do enough to cut spending — it's almost identical to the funding agreement former Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck with President Joe Biden last year — or enact new border changes. They’ve also accused Johnson of sidelining them in the negotiations, a perennial complaint from the right flank during McCarthy’s speakership.
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Johnson was spotted chatting with members of the Freedom Caucus on the floor during votes on both Thursday and Friday as they tried to push him to reject his own spending deal. And some conservative hardliners are vowing they will keep working to figure out an alternative plan, which would include a short-term funding patch, ahead of next week’s shutdown deadline. “I think we need to have the Republican priorities on border security baked into this government funding discussion. And that was what I was just chatting with the speaker about,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told reporters. For his part, Johnson argued that the bipartisan deal was the best agreement he could get given the House GOP's thin margins. He's said that if he had more leeway, the agreement would look different. His lack of negotiating power was just a reality of the narrow majority, he argued. “I don’t agree with the announced deal between the Senate and the House. … I’ve vehemently opposed it publicly and privately and I’ll continue to do so,” House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) said on Friday. But Good dismissed speculation about ousting Johnson, calling it a “ridiculous supposition that someone who has been a speaker for two-and-a-half months … would be treated the same as someone who was in that position for years.”
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>democrats fill every single requirement for being fascist but it's the MAGA who are staunchly anti-fascist who are the real fascists
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>>1256933 I thought you faggots were proud of being fascist. Just follow Trump's playbook and just say literally everything until some retard listens to you huh?
Don't be sad, 'cause 1 out of 2 ain't bad
Don't be sad, 'cause 1 out of 2 ain't bad Sun 14 Jan 2024 23:51:26 No. 1256958 Report Quoted By:
>>1256708 Jesus told Mike to do this, just like Jesus told Him that homos are sinful.
1/2 aint bad
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>>1256946 >when you only exist as some made up strawman in some leftycuck's head Anonymous
>>1256962 >when you have no political beliefs besides being a criminal Anonymous
>>1256965 But I'm not a democrat.
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>>1256968 Democrats don't consider pederastery a crime, thus they believe themselves exempt from the label
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>>1256933 >Republican in charge of projecting It's funny because Trump and Republicans hates ANTIFA, Which is short for. What again?
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>>1257074 >The do as I say, or else people are anti-fascist simply because it's in the name. Hah. Good one.
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>>1257076 So you admit Nazis aren't actually socialists, I accept your defeat.
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>>1257078 >resorts to random non-sequitur arguments Cheers big ears.
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>>1257081 Rules for Radicals #4
>Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. Anonymous
A reminder that MAGA's are trying to elaborate the deal because they just want to sink the economy just to help Trump.
>>1254778 They're that traitorous.
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>>1257145 Different from the time Democrats crashed the economy to help themselves in 2020?
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>>1257145 >they just want to sink the economy You can't sink what's already sunk, but you can blame those responsible, hence why pedocrats and leftoids are getting blamed
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>>1257148 >>1257150 >democrats caused the Trump virus How old of a boomer do you have to be to fall for this?
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>>1257148 >Democrats caused the Trump Virus >And Trump wasn't the one to shut everything down Cope
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>>1257155 15 days to slow the spread
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>>1257150 sink the economy? businesses are still posting record profits!
Aren't Repbulicans proud of what their massive corporate tax cuts are resulting in?
They didn't cut taxes for regular people, so why would you expect them to thrive?
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>>1257162 Ah yes, tax cuts are the reason food is 50%+ more expensive under Biden
No wonder you people are all poor, none of you understand economics
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>>1257165 This
>>1257162 Businesses "post record profits" every year retard. It's a direct effect of inflation. Things cost more every year
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>>1257166 >>1257165 Nah, it's price gouging. Biden's failure is not nationalizing the oil and gas industry since that's a national security weakpoint that shouldn't be trusted to private companies, especially when they're working with our enemies like the Russians and Saudis.
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>>1257165 >>1257166 Look faggots, a rising tide raises all ships. Thats prime Reagan logic.
If you're not doing well, then maybe you're an unamerican POS leech that deserves to sink.
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>>1257160 Which turned into
>"no you can't reopen businesses and send children back to school that's going to kill everyone! we must stop Trump he's going to kill us all!" Anonymous
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>>1257178 This comment is antisemetic.