After a 22-day speakership vacancy, House Republicans finally managed to coalesce around one nominee, electing Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the House Wednesday afternoon.
As Republicans spend the rest of the day (or week) patting themselves on the back for taking almost a month to accomplish the most basic duty of governing as the majority, the same funding crises from before McCarthy’s ousting and new global crises loom large. Johnson’s ability to lead an unruly, fractured caucus on issues like appropriations bills and crucial aid to Ukraine and Israel will be quickly put to the test.
Kate Riga and Emine Yücel are reporting from Capitol Hill. Follow our live coverage below:
After a 22-day speakership vacancy, House Republicans finally managed to coalesce around one nominee, electing Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the House Wednesday afternoon.
As Republicans spend the rest of the day (or week) patting themselves on the back for taking almost a month to accomplish the most basic duty of governing as the majority, the same funding crises from before McCarthy’s ousting and new global crises loom large. Johnson’s ability to lead an unruly, fractured caucus on issues like appropriations bills and crucial aid to Ukraine and Israel will be quickly put to the test.
Kate Riga and Emine Yücel are reporting from Capitol Hill. Follow our live coverage below:
Putin’s people!
This latest J6 Traitor, election denier, and anti-choice zealot belongs nowhere close to the succession to the presidency. May he go down in flames like the nominees before him.
After experimenting with and rejecting cryptofascist, quasifascist, and protofascist speaker candidates, it now looks like Republicans are united behind an open fascist.
Any republican who still wants to be speaker at this point can be sorted into two categories: “terrible” and “somehow, even more terrible”
Ladies and gentlemen, the ProFa wing of the AntiDem party.