{"id":2223925,"date":"2024-04-18T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-the-gop-loses-its-house-majority-its-speaker-johnsons-fault\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T07:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:40:56","slug":"if-the-gop-loses-its-house-majority-its-speaker-johnsons-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-the-gop-loses-its-house-majority-its-speaker-johnsons-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Speaker Johnson if the GOP loses its House majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-the-gop-loses-its-house-majority-its-speaker-johnsons-fault%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223925&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the potential impact of Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s \u200cactions on the \u2062House GOP majority, \u200dhighlighting his approach towards border\u200b security \u200dfunding\u200b and collaboration with Democrats on allocating funds to Ukraine. It questions his leadership and priorities, emphasizing\u2062 the consequences\u200d for\u2064 the party&#8217;s\u2062 standing. The piece\u2063 also touches on the Speaker&#8217;s evolving stance on various \u2063issues, illustrating a shift\u2063 in priorities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>If the House GOP loses its majority next year, it might well be because Speaker Mike Johnson sold out Republican voters by failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-not-only-are-democrats-defunding-the-police-theyre-trying-to-defund-border-security\/\" title=\"ANALYSIS: Not Only Are Democrats Defunding The Police, They\u2019re Trying To Defund Border Security\">fund border security<\/a> while working with Democrats to funnel billions more taxpayer dollars to Ukraine \u2014 after he repeatedly said he wouldn\u2019t do precisely that.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it won\u2019t take much to lose the Republican majority, which will narrow to 217-213 once Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., retires later this month. (Gallagher, whose last day was set for Friday, has said he\u2019ll delay his retirement to help ensure Johnson\u2019s Ukraine funding passes this weekend.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-455429039\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0f0f4f73de7fdfcfb6e3709d727c1042 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0f0f4f73de7fdfcfb6e3709d727c1042\"><\/div>\n<p>November is not that far off, and between President Joe Biden\u2019s fragile health and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-considers-oprah-as-a-replacement-for-dianne-feinstein-in-senate\/\" title=\"Newsom eyes Oprah for Feinstein's Senate seat.\">declining mental capacity<\/a>, and Donald Trump\u2019s legal (lawfare) troubles, the presidential election is very much up in the air. It won\u2019t take much, in one direction or the other, to tip the balance of power in the House.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, Johnson and Republican House leaders will <em>deserve<\/em> to lose their slim majority if they go through with their plan to enact the Biden administration\u2019s agenda and send billions to Ukraine and Israel while refusing to do anything about the ongoing border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever happens next, by any measure Johnson\u2019s tenure as speaker has been an abject failure, a profile in spinelessness. Under his speakership, the Republican House majority has already dwindled by five (when Johnson was elected speaker, he had a 222-213 majority, nine seats) and will soon dwindle by one more. This shrinking majority is made worse by his and his lieutenants\u2019 feckless leadership and unwillingness to play hardball with Democrats and establishment Republicans. After all, what good is even a slim Republican majority if you\u2019re going to ignore what your voters want and work instead to pass Biden\u2019s priorities?<\/p>\n<p>And make no mistake, this is exactly what Johnson has done. Five months ago, he sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1732060427075387652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sternly worded letter<\/a> to the Biden White House explaining that \u201csupplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation\u2019s border security laws,\u201d and that before more tax dollars were thrown at the Ukraine conflict, the Biden administration needed to answer questions about our objectives, accountability for what we\u2019ve already sent there, and what a victory and \u201csustainable peace\u201d will look like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-11427ad5d8fa97cc0813e233021f6546 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-11427ad5d8fa97cc0813e233021f6546\"><\/div>\n<p>After that, Johnson more or less did nothing, and none of what he demanded came to pass. And yet Johnson is now working very hard to give Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted while getting nothing in return \u2014 and still nothing has been done about the border. (Less than nothing, actually. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democrats this week <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HomelandGOP\/status\/1780693261591429260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disposed of impeachment articles<\/a> without a trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom the House voted to impeach over the border fiasco, signaling there will be no accountability for the Biden administration.)<\/p>\n<p>At one time, not long ago, Johnson talked a big game about the border. It seemed like he cared about it. As my colleague Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/17\/mike-johnson-promised-to-fix-the-border-before-funneling-money-overseas-hes-doing-the-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted Wednesday<\/a>, back in May 2023, before he was speaker, Johnson opposed sending more aid to Ukraine until Congress addressed mounting problems here at home. The U.S., he said, \u201cshould not be sending another $40 billion abroad when our own border is in chaos, American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, gas prices are at record highs, and American families are struggling to make ends meet, without sufficient oversight over where the money will go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once he became speaker, Johnson softened his tone on funding foreign wars but still maintained that addressing America\u2019s problems should come first. Even as recently as November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/manateecounty\/speaker-johnson-sarasota\/67-a1b6e616-8de8-41cd-92ad-cc050cdd0b9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a> additional funding for Ukraine should coincide with \u201cchanging our own border policy.\u201d In December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2023-12-05\/house-speaker-johnson-is-insisting-on-sweeping-border-security-changes-in-a-deal-for-ukraine-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he called<\/a> the border crisis his \u201ctop priority,\u201d and in January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/01\/03\/texas-mexico-border-house-speaker-johnson-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he actually went and visited<\/a> the border at Eagle Pass, Texas, a hotspot for mass illegal crossings.<\/p>\n<p>So much for all that. The border no longer appears to be his top priority or really much of a priority at all. It ranks below funding for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, which are all set to get funding in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/17\/mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate-foreign-aid-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an aid package<\/a> \u2014 along with billions for Gaza, which is to say Hamas \u2014 that Johnson and other GOP House leaders are working with Democrats to pass over the objections of most of the Republican conference and the vast majority of Republican voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c456db0234e3e10b00adda84e0694ce fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c456db0234e3e10b00adda84e0694ce\"><\/div>\n<p>And they\u2019re not even trying to make cogent or compelling arguments for what they\u2019re doing. Speaking on Wednesday to CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper (whose viewers, it seems, are Johnson\u2019s <em>actual<\/em> constituency), Johnson repeated the Democrat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-voters-dont-have-an-appetite-for-neoconservatism-and-mike-pompeos-failed-presidential-aspirations-proves-it\/\" title=\"Republican Voters Don\u2019t Have An Appetite For Neoconservatism, And Mike Pompeo\u2019s Failed Presidential Aspirations Proves It\">neocon talking point<\/a> that unless we keep shoveling money into a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine, Putin will march through Europe. I\u2019m not kidding. He said: \u201cWe are going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn\u2019t march through Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"KT9GwSDy64d2bOi5np2gOm6X3BTaLeWvJ9IfD3r5oZlzukAMcYuIR1HriWMPB0R4NKGkCSt8qqZYl\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaker Johnson: \u201cWe are going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn&#8217;t march through Europe\u2026We have to project to Putin, Xi, and Iran, and North Korea, and anybody else that we will defend freedom.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3H8ZY2m5NP\">pic.twitter.com\/3H8ZY2m5NP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Republicans for Ukraine (@GOP4Ukraine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOP4Ukraine\/status\/1780699586220417403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Putin-will-march-through-Europe line was preposterous when it was trotted out over two years ago; today it\u2019s indefensible, a worn-out neocon talking point that no one, not even those robotically repeating it like Johnson is now, really believes. Moscow, which has yet to secure even the areas of eastern Ukraine it claims to have annexed, has no ability to threaten Europe militarily. And even if it did, Russia has a unique strategic interest in Ukraine it does not have in Poland or other NATO member countries, let alone the whole of Europe. <\/p>\n<p>But Johnson isn\u2019t going to let facts on the ground get in the way of his tired establishment narrative \u2014 or better yet, Democrat narrative. As Will Chamberlain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/willchamberlain\/status\/1780716883060117736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it Wednesday on X<\/a>, \u201cWe effectively replaced Kevin McCarthy with Chuck Schumer as speaker of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The obvious reality is that Speaker Johnson is a pathetic tool of the Washington uniparty, and the sooner he loses his gavel, the better off the country will be \u2014 even if it means Democrats regain a House majority. I\u2019d rather have a coherent and unified opposition party than a complicit, compliant, and totally compromised GOP majority under Johnson. Especially if impeachment of Biden is off the table, as it clearly is under Johnson, then what exactly is the point of continuing to do business this way?<\/p>\n<p>So yes, if Republicans lose their House majority, it\u2019s Johnson\u2019s fault. But really, he\u2019ll be doing us all a favor. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bb21c2fae761bc61aaf280a1ffcc0464 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bb21c2fae761bc61aaf280a1ffcc0464\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the House GOP loses its majority next year, blame Speaker Mike Johnson for betraying Republican voters. By neglecting border security funding and collaborating with Democrats to allocate billions to Ukraine, contradicting his promises, he jeopardizes party support. 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