Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters
Moses running to Trump makes him look weak IMHO
Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters
https://apnews.com/article/congress-speaker-johnson-trump-meeting-19b923809fecfeeb4a1d232faefbdaed
By LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES
Updated 6:13 PM CDT, April 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) His job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week and has offered far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a seat on his own kitchen cabinet as he draws closer to the MAGA forces that now dominate the GOP.
The sudden moves Wednesday come as the House hit a standstill, thrown into chaos once again.
The House Republicans are tearing themselves apart, unable to work together to push party priorities through Congress yet watching their majority fritter away the days without a cohesive agenda or much to show for their 15 months in power.
Johnson was unable to pass a national security surveillance bill that was tanked by his own Republican majority shortly after Trump pushed them to kill it. But at the same time, the speaker was being warned off partnering with Democrats on that bill and others, including aid for Ukraine, or risk Greene calling a snap vote that could oust him from the speakers office.
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Heading into the November election, Johnson has hitched his partys prospects and his own political survival to Trump, believing the presumed presidential nominee and his MAGA supporters will boost Republican lawmakers and ensure they keep control of the House from Democrats.
On Friday, Trump and Johnson will appear for a press conference on election integrity at the former presidents Mar-a-Lago club, according to a Trump campaign official.............
Doodley
(10,035 posts)samnsara
(18,163 posts)..trump will be UN impeachable.
maybe thats the plan?
NJCher
(37,359 posts)Pull a McCarthy and pose with a convicted rapist at mar a lago. Be sure to stick your thumb up 👍 to tell everyone that everythings fine, going according to plan.
Better hurry, though. The occupant of mar a lago is in court Monday. Criminal court.
mucifer
(24,597 posts)gab13by13
(24,180 posts)I said a long time ago that this Putin House will never pass funding for Ukraine.
Trump's meeting with Johnson isn't going to be about election integrity, they may as well have said it was about saving the snail darter. This meeting will be about letting Johnson know what the consequences will be if he brings aid for Ukraine up for a vote.
Traildogbob
(9,713 posts)That asswipe Bolton said Biden was to blame for Ukraine failure in Nicole interview. As well as Biden is to blame for not supporting Bibi. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
We all know what his job was under the Putin regime. The U.S. is terrifying to the world right now.
B.See
(2,943 posts)LOOK weak? Sounds like a--- kissin time.