Posted on 01/02/2025 11:57:59 AM PST by Miami Rebel
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said Sunday that Democrats will not save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) if he fails to get enough support from his own party to retain his gavel.
Jeffries pointed to the collapse of the bipartisan government funding agreement as a key reason Johnson would not get support from Democrats when his Speakership comes up for a vote again at the start of January.
Asked in an interview on “Inside with Jen Psaki” whether Jeffries thinks Johnson is at risk of losing his position, Jeffries said, “I think that’s a real risk.”
“And there will be no Democrats available to save him — or the extreme MAGA Republicans — from themselves,” Jeffries continued, “based on the breaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities that were good for the American people.”
The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown Friday, just hours before the deadline. Nearly all Democrats and a majority of Republicans voted in support of the legislation, which marked Johnson’s fourth proposal aimed at funding the government and averting a shutdown.
Some Democrats have criticized the legislation since it lacked several policy provisions that were included in the original funding deal that they struck with GOP leadership earlier in the week. Johnson never brought that bipartisan, bicameral package to the floor, however, since President-elect Trump made his opposition to the package clear.
“We’re going to have to continue to work on several of those as we move forward, including plussing up resources for community health centers, which is a bipartisan priority that Republicans walked away from, even though it benefits people in urban America, rural America, small town America, the heartland of America, as well as Appalachia,” Jeffries said.'
“But we’ll have the ability to wage those battles over the next few weeks and the next few months given that this is only a short-term continuing resolution that will expire on March 14,” he continued.
The package funds the government at current levels through March 14, extends the farm bill for one year and appropriates billions of dollars in disaster relief and assistance for farmers.
I’m torn.
On the one hand Johnson is a duplicitous simp who doesn’t deserve to be Speaker.
On the other hand, if the Speaker vote is a long, protracted fight, Congress will not be able to certify the President’s election.
Trump won by such overwhelming numbers, even in blue California, that the coattail effect should have dragged a LOT of extra seats over to Republicans. The fact that didn’t happen is highly suspect.
36 years ago he was chasing Jews through Brooklyn.
Jeffries' comments aren't going to encourage Republicans to work with him. I hope Johnson learned the lesson of the frog and the scorpion and what happens when someone tries to work with Democrats "in good faith."
-PJ
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries shortly to become Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
Unless the Rs get their collective heads out of their yknowhats
The problem is, and has been for a very long time, that idiot Republican voters will vote for a POS Republican just to keep the seat Republican.
you must be very young
Compare him to Byron Donalds.
I strongly suspicion it is due to an intense love of buying votes with other people's hard earned money...to finance Utopian stupidity. In that, the Rats and even Rinos are united.
Great point.
That’s like comparing Ketanji Brown Jackson to Clarence Thomas. There is just no comparison, they might as well be from different universes.
And then people who were yes votes will become no votes unless those concessions are reversed.
No, one way or another the establishment Republican’ts find a way to come up just a little bit short in stopping the evil Dems. These are some Senate examples but there are many more procedural votes in the House that come up just short of stopping them.....
*Auto Industry bailout 2008 - 53-37 (middle of night, 3 GOP defectors)
*Obama Care reconciliation 60-37 to avoid filibuster
*Repeal of Obamacare 2017 51-49 with “Maverick” McCain being the swing vote
*2019 reopen government without border wall funding during the shutdown 51-49
*2021 Covid bailouts 51-49
*2021 Continuing Resolution to fund the government 51-50
too bad the Rats stole so many Congressional seats right before our eyes with the many weeks of after-election counting
Totally agree and this is one reason why
The general election is not the issue in a safe Republican districts. Anyone opposing President Trump, like Massie, should be defeated in the primary election.
How is Massie opposing President Trump?
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