Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., came out in opposition to the Senate deal on DHS on Friday, saying he wouldn’t put the bill on the floor. Many House Republicans privately think he’s making a mistake.
After a week of false starts toward ending the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered the biggest setback yet on Friday, telling his conference that he wouldn’t bring the Senate deal, passed just hours earlier with unanimous support, to the House floor.
Behind closed doors, many House Republicans are already questioning the speaker’s decision.
On a GOP members-only conference call on Friday, Johnson came out in opposition to the Senate bill.
“We are not gonna eat the crap sandwich the Senate sent us,” Johnson told House Republicans, according to a source on the line.
Carcetti was actually a decent mayor though, if I recall. He at least had good intentions, even though the system was broken.
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He wanted to do good things, but when he found out the school system was in a massive amount of debt and that the only way to keep the city running without doing extreme austerity would have been to take a bail out from the state that would’ve hurt his campaign for governor, he did the extreme austerity and let the city suffer instead of sacrifice his personal ambitions