House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to move quickly to advance Donald Trump’s signature voter ID legislation through the arduous budget reconciliation process once the House returns to Washington, downplaying the heightened tensions within the GOP after he sent lawmakers home early for the holidays after a few Republicans brought the floor to a halt.
Last week, a small group of conservative hardliners, led by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, effectively blocked a key procedural vote to advance several bills on the floor out of protest that Congress had not sent the SAVE America Act to the president’s desk.
Driven by frustration, Trump has already held up a critical intelligence nomination and declined to sign a major bipartisan housing package, despite Senate GOP leaders insisting that they do not have the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster and proceed with the elections overhaul bill.
Johnson can say that, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. In addition to women and anyone else who can’t put their hands on a passport or birth certificate in time for the election, that act is going to hit rural areas hard. Simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know, Republicans.
Oh yeah. Exactly why the Republicans are dragging their feet. Who are most likely to own passports? MAGA or Dem voters?
Also, the filibuster protects the GOP from Trump more than it does the Democrats.
If they take the house they should immediately dump the filibuster.
“America is back, and we want to keep America great, and we will do so by approving the SAVE America Act,” he said to a crowd gathered on the National Mall, which included several Republican lawmakers.
Ridiculous. We’re all paying lots of money for gasoline, in my town $5+ per gallon, food costs are up, and the GOP congress has failed to hold the Trump admin responsible for starting a war without congressional approval.
where are you cause in Florida it’s 3.60
California. Even in Florida gas prices increased from $3 to nearly $4 per gallon as a result of a non-congressionally authorized war. Now that there’s some kind of MOU between Trump and Iran, Florida gas prices dropped back to about $3.60 (but not to $3 pre-war levels). The highest gas prices in the US are in Hawaii and California.
$5+ in California? I don’t pay for gas any more (EV, and E-bike powered by PV) but I do check the prices out of a damn near four decade long habit, and we are sitting at $6+ in IB at the stations I drive past. We hit $7+ for a little bit.
Still cheaper than anywhere in Europe. I dunno about other global prices.
Gee, what is the hurry, I wonder? You’d think something this momentous would need time to consider all the implications, instead of being rushed through slap-dash just before an election.
Oh, right. This is not about “protecting” anything but the Republicans’ undeserved and unwarranted power.
It’s not like it’s a Supreme Court nomination on an election year or anything like that /s
