{"id":2381263,"date":"2024-12-18T07:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnsons-latest-spending-scheme-proves-hes-dems-useful-idiot\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:38:19","slug":"johnsons-latest-spending-scheme-proves-hes-dems-useful-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnsons-latest-spending-scheme-proves-hes-dems-useful-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson&#8217;s Latest Spending Scheme Proves He&#8217;s Dems&#8217; Useful Idiot"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjohnsons-latest-spending-scheme-proves-hes-dems-useful-idiot%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=2381263&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 criticizes\u200d House Speaker Mike Johnson for allegedly failing to uphold his promise to avoid omnibus spending measures. it\u2063 discusses the release\u200d of a 1,547-page bill intended\u2063 to fund the federal\u2062 government\u2064 through March 2025, labeled a &#8220;continuing \u2064resolution.&#8221; The bill reportedly contains numerous \u200dprovisions considered unneeded and excessive,\u200d including\u2063 items\u200b related to American music tourism and consumer safety standards. A particularly concerning element highlighted in\u200c the bill is the one-year extension of the State Department\u2019s Global \u200cEngagement Centre, which has been criticized for funding censorship tools that \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-state-department-slammed-for-blowing-disinformation-documents-deadline-no-excuse\/\" title=\"Biden State Department criticized for missing &#039;disinformation&#039; documents deadline: &#039;Unacceptable&#039;\">target conservative speech online<\/a>. The piece\u200b claims this action undermines Johnson&#8217;s prior statements\u2062 against such \u200cspending practices and suggests a betrayal of \u2064conservative \u2064voters.  <\/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<div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s another day that ends in &ldquo;-y,&rdquo; which means House Speaker Mike Johnson is busy stabbing conservative voters in the back. <\/p>\n<p>Following days of backdoor scheming, congressional leaders released the text of their <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20241216\/CR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,547-page spending measure<\/a> to fund the federal government through March 2025. Deceptively marketed as a &ldquo;continuing resolution&rdquo; or CR, the bill bears all the hallmarks of the bloated omnibus packages Johnson recently promised voters wouldn&rsquo;t happen under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have broken the Christmas omni and I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition,&rdquo; Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1869120516683952519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> reporters in September. &ldquo;So, there won&rsquo;t be a Christmas omnibus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.&#8294;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerJohnson<\/a>&#8297;, Sept. 24, 2024: &ldquo;With the CR, as our leader just noted, we have &mdash; we have broken the Christmas omni &amp; I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition. So, there won&rsquo;t be a Christmas omnibus.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FPIFTnLP7U\">pic.twitter.com\/FPIFTnLP7U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1869120516683952519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Now here we are in December, and what do have but a massive omnibus filled with all the pork items on the D.C. establishment&rsquo;s wish list. <\/p>\n<p>A skim through the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">gargantuan bill reveals numerous unnecessary provisions<\/a>, including those related to &ldquo;American music tourism,&rdquo; informing consumers about cameras on smart phones, and consumer safety standards for certain types of batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most alarming, however, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gekaminsky\/status\/1869198963242565661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-year extension<\/a> of the State Department&rsquo;s Global Engagement Center (GEC). <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Margot Cleveland previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/19\/meet-the-shadowy-group-that-ran-the-federal-governments-censorship-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, GEC &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/13\/newsguard-claims-not-to-be-government-funded-but-a-750k-grant-suggests-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded<\/a>&nbsp;the development of censorship tools&rdquo; that work to silence (primarily conservative) speech online and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/11\/government-is-marketing-censorship-tools-to-big-tech-to-gag-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> &lsquo;government employees to act as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-demand-big-tech-censor-americans-ahead-of-election\/\" title=\"Democrats Demand Big Tech Censor Americans Ahead Of Election\">sales reps pitching &#038;hellip<\/a>; censorship products to Big Tech.&#8217;&rdquo; The subagency is a named defendant in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/12\/06\/state-of-texas-joins-the-federalist-daily-wire-in-suing-the-federal-censorship-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;filed by The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas in December 2023 to stop the federal government&rsquo;s censorship operations.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Johnson willingly agreed to continue funding a federal agency working to silence Americans&rsquo; speech. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, perfectly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1869054289861308876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summed up<\/a> Congress&rsquo;s latest spending scam following a closed-door Tuesday meeting among the Republican conference, telling reporters: &ldquo;[Congress] is fundamentally unserious about spending. As long as you have a blank check you can&rsquo;t shrink government. If you can&rsquo;t shrink government, you can&rsquo;t live free.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Americans shouldn&rsquo;t be shocked at Johnson&rsquo;s betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same speaker who has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/14\/the-gop-is-a-fake-opposition-party-with-no-vision-for-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/19\/speaker-johnson-is-willingly-funding-the-biden-regimes-authoritarianism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/07\/mike-johnson-proves-republicans-arent-serious-about-stopping-democrats-border-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/22\/greene-files-motion-to-oust-speaker-johnson-after-house-passes-mega-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/11\/congress-is-ramming-through-a-895-billion-pork-filled-defense-bill-before-trump-takes-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time<\/a> funded the Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s lawfare and other authoritarian activities, often with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/02\/mike-johnsons-ukraine-first-agenda-shows-hes-no-different-than-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more support<\/a> from Democrats than Republicans. He&rsquo;s also the same speaker who <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/4400102-speaker-johnson-border-fight-immigration-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told us<\/a> that in no uncertain terms would he authorize more taxpayer dollars for Ukraine without an accompanying deal to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, only to turn around and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/21\/ukraine-aid-mike-johnson-house-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do exactly that<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That border fight is coming, and we&rsquo;re going to die on that hill,&rdquo; Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/4400102-speaker-johnson-border-fight-immigration-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> during a January radio interview. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly a year later, and conservatives are still waiting for that &ldquo;fight.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Johnson&rsquo;s promises are about as meaningful as the gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe. As he&rsquo;s demonstrated time and again, the Louisiana representative will fold like a cheap house of cards on any given policy fight at the first sign of confrontation, leaving Republican voters hanging in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>And that right there has been the story of Johnson&rsquo;s entire speakership. His willingness to further the status quo &mdash; even if it means empowering Democrats &mdash; has made him the left&rsquo;s useful idiot. He&rsquo;s a weak, impotent speaker going along to get along, and as per usual, it&rsquo;s conservative voters who pay the price. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson betrays conservatives with a massive spending bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2381264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Mike-Johnson-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,4162,32171,47024],"class_list":["post-2381263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-johnson","tag-political-commentary","tag-spending-scheme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Mike-Johnson-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381267,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381263\/revisions\/2381267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}