Tag Archives: Mike Johnson

GOP Rep Tours Johnson Around FL Airport Expansion Made Possible By Infrastructure Act They Voted Against

Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports: Speaker Mike Johnson visited the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Monday morning along with other members of the Florida Delegation. A release from Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, said the officials were there to get a tour of the airport’s expansion project. In total, the project will cost $100 million to add a five-gate terminal, a four-lane security …

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GOP Rep: Mike Johnson Must Stop Lying About 2020

“Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America and that’s everyone that is making that argument. Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America. “Everyone who says that the prisoners who are being prosecuted right now for their …

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Johnson Recently Called For Criminalizing Gay Sex

CNN reports: Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, voiced support for revisiting Supreme Court decisions that struck down restrictions on the use of contraception, barred bans on gay sex and legalized same sex marriages, according to a CNN review of his prior public statements. On a conservative talk radio show the day the Supreme Court struck down Roe …

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Christian Meets With Serial Adulterer At Mar-A-Lago

NBC News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, who recently made clear his endorsement of Donald Trump in 2024, met with the former president Monday night, two sources familiar with the meeting said. Johnson, R-La., and Trump met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida days after Johnson told CNBC in an interview that he is “all in for President Trump,” who …

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New Johnson Fund Allows Donations Up To $850,000

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced the creation of a new joint fundraising committee, called Grow the Majority, that will be his principal fundraising apparatus to support Republicans running for House seats. The creation of the organization will allow Johnson and his political apparatus to solicit six-figure donations from high-dollar donors and distribute those funds across the 70 …

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Mike Johnson To Release All Capitol Riot Footage But With Faces Of The Insurrectionists Blurred For “Privacy”

The Washington Examiner reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will make all surveillance footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot available for the public to access online starting “immediately,” the House leader announced Friday. The tapes will be posted on a public website and contain more than 44,000 hours of security footage taken during the Jan. 6 riot, barring any video …

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MSNBC Panel Blasts Johnson’s Attack On LGBTQ Youth

Mediaite has the transcript: Willie Geist: Where to begin there, Joe. There’s so much. America is “irredeemable,” it’s “dark and depraved.” Just to, let’s lift ourselves out of the subtext. He went on to say – really what he’s talking about here is that we have gay people in America. He said one in four high school students say that …

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Johnson: America Deserves God’s Wrath For Permitting “Dark And Depraved” Things Like Young LGBTQ People

Rolling Stone reports: Talking to pastor Jim Garlow on a broadcast of the World Prayer Network, Johnson spoke ominously of America facing a “civilizational moment.” He said, “The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins? Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore …

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Johnson Once Trashed Trump As Dangerous, Immoral

The New York Times reports: Years before he played a lead role in trying to help President Donald J. Trump stay in office after the 2020 election or defended him in two separate Senate impeachment trials, Speaker Mike Johnson bluntly asserted that Mr. Trump was unfit to serve and could be a danger as president. “The thing about Donald Trump …

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House Passes Funding Bill To Avert Govt Shutdown

NBC News reports: The House passed its continuing resolution, or “CR,” sending it to the Senate to avoid a shutdown. The U.S. government will run out of money at 12:01 a.m. Saturday if Congress fails to act this week. The plan devised by new Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., would extend funding for some government agencies through mid-January and others through …

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Johnson: Separation Of Church And State Is “Misnomer”

“Separation of church and state is a misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote is not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on …

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Johnson: Trump Believes The Big Lie Deep In His Heart

“Listen, there are a lot of people in Washington who’s saying things that are not accurate all the time. Everybody does. We’re all human. But I’ll say this about President Trump with regard to that to the election, and what he believes about that, that is deep in his heart. I mean, I’ve talked to him personally about it. Many …

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Johnson May Not Have The Votes For Funding Bills

Playbook reports: With just four days until a government shutdown, the race is on to see whether Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan for a two-pronged clean continuing resolution can peel off enough House Democrats to make up for Republican defections. (That’s to say nothing of what will happen with the Senate and White House, of course.) The number of GOP members …

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Johnson Issues Likely Doomed Two-Step Funding Bill

The Hill reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out a two-step government funding stopgap bill on Saturday, settling on an unusual approach to avert a government shutdown that is already getting pushback from Republicans with just days until a Friday funding deadline. The “laddered” continuing resolution (CR) released Saturday would have some funding run out on Jan. 19, and …

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Mike Johnson: “I Had My Feelings Surgically Removed”

“It’s no fun to be lied about and maligned and misquoted. You faced that in your time in service and [in your] career as well. I’ve got a resilient little team here [in my] family. I’m blessed. Kelly is a woman of strong faith. She knows she believes God called us to this. “And so she’s being sustained by the …

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Christian Nationalist Flag Posted At Johnson’s Office

Rolling Stone reports: The flag — which Rolling Stone has confirmed hangs outside his district office in the Cannon House Office Building — is white with a simple evergreen tree in the center and the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven” at the top. Historically, this flag was a Revolutionary War banner, commissioned by George Washington as a naval flag for …

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Speaker Johnson Attends Far-Right Conference In Paris

From the event’s website: Republicans Overseas France and Republicans Overseas Worldwide will organize the first Worldwide Freedom Initiative (WFI) on November 10, 2023 in the heart of Paris, France that will be like no other conference in Europe. We will have the great honor to host dignitaries from the USA, Europe and other continents. WFI has the basic goal of …

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House GOP Pulls Funding Bill, Adjourns For Weekend

The Hill reports: House Republicans on Thursday pulled their annual financial services and general government funding bill amid divisions on abortion-related provisions and FBI funding. It was the second time in a week GOP leaders opted to punt a vote on a funding bill over divisions within the party. Some moderate Republicans came out in opposition against language seeking to …

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Johnson On His Plan To Avert Shutdown: “Trust Us”

The Washington Post reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) urged the public on Tuesday to “trust us” as he floated a plan to fund the government that is unlikely to pass the Senate, increasing the odds of a shutdown just 11 days before funds lapse. Speaking to reporters at a news conference with the families of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas, …

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MTG Suggests Mike Johnson “Should Be Ousted”

“In our conference we had Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans that declared red lines, where any speaker that passes a CR [continuing resolution for funding] or funds Ukraine war funding should be ousted. “So my question is, we’re about to have Speaker Mike Johnson pass the CR. And he is talking about passing mega, mega Ukraine funding = trying …

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