Mike Johnson claims ‘paid protesters’ are disrupting GOP town halls — then backtracks when asked for proof - ‘You can’t argue they were all paid protestors, though, Mr. Speaker,’ CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pushed back,
House Speaker Mike Johnson will try against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week, a step toward delivering President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5
Mike Johnson alleged that pro-Medicaid protestors at town hall meetings advocating against spending cuts for the federal program are "paid" Democrats.
The House passed its Trump-backed budget bill Tuesday after a battle with hardliner holdouts concerned over the level of spending cuts.
Washington — The House adopted a budget proposal on Tuesday that paves the way for implementing President Trump's legislative agenda, handing a major victory to House Speaker Mike Johnson who had been trying to sway a small number of holdouts in the final hours before the vote.
The party-line vote came after a dramatic day of arm-twisting in the House, with all but one Republican ultimately backing the budget resolution.
Because Trump was extremely tardy in communicating any preference between the Senate’s approach of enacting that agenda in two budget reconciliation bills and the House’s approach of rolling it all into one,
Mr. Johnson kept the House floor open for an hour, then opted to punt the blueprint when it appeared the opposition wouldn’t budge. But within minutes, the vote was reopened, and the many lawmakers who had already left the chamber slowly filed back in.
For now, Victoria Spartz and Mike Johnson have struck a delicate truce. But if others are thinking about crossing her, they should look at her tumultuous rise in politics.