Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) yanked a essential authorities funding invoice simply hours earlier than it was scheduled for a vote.
This invoice, backed by former President Donald Trump and aimed toward addressing voter fraud by means of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, was poised to be a serious victory for conservatives pushing for election integrity.
President Donald Trump made it clear that he stands firmly behind the SAVE Act, urging Congress to incorporate the availability in any authorities funding invoice. Trump has referred to as for a authorities shutdown if the act is just not included, prioritizing electoral integrity over the continual funding of a bloated federal authorities.
“”If Republicans within the Home, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Safety, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
Speaking on Monica Crowley’s podcast, Trump mentioned, “I might shut down the federal government in a heartbeat in the event that they don’t get it within the invoice… If it’s not within the invoice, you ought to shut it up.”
However, as at all times, the weak institution Republicans, led by Johnson, crumbled underneath stress from the RINOs and Democrats.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of many few voices nonetheless prepared to talk fact to energy, blasted Johnson and GOP leadership on Tuesday for orchestrating what she referred to as a “faux struggle” in Washington.
Greene rightly identified that the RINOs had no actual intention of seeing this invoice by means of and had been extra taken with appeasing their left-wing colleagues than standing up for the American folks.
“The worst factor that Republicans within the Home can do is create a faux struggle that the bottom is aware of they’re mendacity about and frustrate our voters getting in on November fifth,” Greene mentioned. “That’s the way you lose the Home of Representatives,” Greene mentioned.
“Simply be sincere. If [Johnson] already aligned himself with the Democrats again in Might, did a two-part omnibus, simply be sincere and do what he’s going to do. However don’t have Conservatives like me that truly care about lowering our spending, that truly care about making modifications, that truly care about doing the proper factor for the American folks, don’t make folks like me exit and fake like we’re combating for one thing, as a result of I’m not going to have any a part of it.”
Regardless of the clear urgency from Trump and his supporters, Johnson pulled his six-month stopgap funding plan after it grew to become clear that opposition from each Democrats and a handful of spineless Republicans would derail the invoice. No less than eight Home Republicans have already come out towards the invoice, all however guaranteeing its failure, in keeping with CNN.
“No vote as we speak,” Johnson instructed reporters, signaling one more defeat for conservatives hoping for actual change in Washington.
“We’re having considerate conversations, household conversations throughout the Republican Convention and I consider we are going to get there,” he added.
“I need any member of Congress in both occasion to clarify to the American folks why we should always not be sure that solely US residents are voting in US elections … It’s essentially the most urgent concern proper now, and we’re going to get this job accomplished.”
However the actuality is that Johnson and his ilk don’t have any intention of “getting there.”
As an alternative, they’re content material with enjoying politics and persevering with the limitless cycle of appeasement that has outlined the GOP institution for a lot too lengthy.