{"id":2381939,"date":"2024-12-19T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-warns-mike-johnson-over-woke-garbage-in-continuing-resolution-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:25:40","slug":"josh-hawley-warns-mike-johnson-over-woke-garbage-in-continuing-resolution-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-warns-mike-johnson-over-woke-garbage-in-continuing-resolution-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley warns Mike Johnson over \u2018woke garbage\u2019 in continuing resolution &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjosh-hawley-warns-mike-johnson-over-woke-garbage-in-continuing-resolution-washington-examiner%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=2381939&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>Senator Josh\u2062 Hawley (R-MO) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-schumer-senate-will-get-full-briefing-on-china\/\" title=\"Sen. Schumer: Senate Will Get \u201cFull Briefing\u201d on China\">expressed strong disapproval<\/a> of\u200b House Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s (R-LA) recent government \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-passes-massive-covid-relief-omnibus-bill-sending-billions-of-dollars-to-foreign-countries-measure-heads-to-president-trumps-desk\/\" title=\"Congress Passes Massive Covid Relief\/Omnibus Bill Sending Billions of Dollars to Foreign Countries \u2013 Measure Heads to President Trump\u2019s Desk\">spending bill<\/a>. Hawley criticized the bill, which spans\u2063 1,547 pages, for including what he terms &#8220;woke garbage.&#8221; His\u2063 comments highlight growing tensions within Republican ranks regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gdp-is-a-bad-way-to-measure-the-economys-health-heres-a-better-way\/\" title=\"GDP is an inadequate measure of economic health. Here&#039;s a superior alternative.\">government\u200c spending<\/a> and the ideological content of funding proposals. senator Josh Hawley&#8217;s criticism of House Speaker Mike \u200dJohnson&#8217;s government spending bill reflects a broader divide within the Republican Party regarding fiscal\u2062 policy and ideological principles. By labeling parts \u200bof the \u200cbill \u2062as \u2062&#8221;woke garbage,&#8221; \u200cHawley\u2064 signals an\u200c increasing pushback from \u200dmore conservative factions against what they perceive as \u200dprogressive \u200delements within legislation, including funding for social programs\u2063 or initiatives they consider ideologically driven.<\/p>\n<p>This division underscores the challenges that party leadership faces in navigating \u200dthe demands of\u200d various party factions\u2014especially between\u200b more\u2063 traditional conservatives \u200dand \u200bthose who align with the rising populist and far-right elements. The 1,547-page\u2064 spending bill not only represents complex budgetary decisions but also encompasses\u200c a range \u200bof \u2062political priorities, making consensus\u2063 increasingly challenging.<\/p>\n<p>As\u2063 House Speaker Mike Johnson works to advance this bill,\u2063 Hawley&#8217;s public disapproval could have implications\u2063 for \u200cits support among conservatives in both the House \u2063and the Senate. The situation highlights a \u2064pivotal moment for the GOP as it grapples\u2064 with its identity and policy \u2062direction, particularly in an era\u2062 when government spending\u200b and ideological \u2062battles are at the forefront of political discourse. \u200dThe response from other Republican lawmakers and\u2062 the electorate may further \u2064influence the party&#8217;s strategy as it <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">approaches future budget negotiations<\/a> and \u2064legislative initiatives.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Josh Hawley warns Mike Johnson over &lsquo;woke garbage&rsquo; in continuing resolution<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1915758\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/josh-hawley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-MO) harshly condemned House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) over his initial government spending bill, specifically calling out the &ldquo;woke garbage&rdquo; it funded within its 1,547 pages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Hawley is among the latest critics Johnson is facing within his own party over his spending bill, which Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3264695\/scalise-spending-deal-dead-mass-gop-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Steve Scalise<\/a> (R-LA) confirmed was &ldquo;dead&rdquo; on Wednesday evening. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Missouri<\/a> senator explained that included within the bill, which he deemed &ldquo;a total joke,&rdquo; is funding for censorship, a &ldquo;recycling access center,&rdquo; and a means for congressional members to opt out of Obamacare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s the thing that really gets me: Republicans negotiated this!&rdquo; Hawley said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Hannity<\/em>. &ldquo;The speaker of the House negotiated this bill. It is a total travesty! This has got to change, Sean. I mean, we cannot go on like this, and I hope the Republican leadership gets the message here. The message of this election, which is that people want change, they don&rsquo;t want this garbage. I&rsquo;m a hard no on this thing, it is a joke, it is a travesty, and they need to go back to square one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley also said the bill is just &ldquo;the same old, same old&rdquo; dedicated to funding Democratic priorities, questioning why Republicans would want to make President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> deal with this next year. He also suspected House Republicans did not keep Trump in the loop during discussions when writing up the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I tell you what, we need to have a serious look at who&rsquo;s leading this Congress because if this is the best they can do, it&rsquo;s just total incompetence,&rdquo; Hawley said. &ldquo;This is a disaster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hawley&rsquo;s criticism of Johnson comes shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3263912\/josh-hawley-fumes-mike-johnson-radiation-exposure-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">he blamed the House speaker for his signature radiation exposure bill getting blocked<\/a>, creating further frustration between the two. The senator accused Johnson of killing his bill while the House speaker is also &ldquo;willing to spend BILLIONS on Ukraine and foreign wars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Amid the growing frustration between Johnson and other Republicans, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has advised him and the rest of the House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3265285\/gingrich-gop-heed-serious-warnings-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">not to do &ldquo;dumb things&rdquo; with their continuing resolution<\/a>, suggesting a simple solution could be to pass a continuing resolution with &ldquo;nothing on it&rdquo; to keep the government open until Republicans regain the Senate next year. Gingrich cited his own experience as House speaker and how he and the House were able to balance the budget because they had &ldquo;the guts&rdquo; to do what needed to be done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1915758\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1915758\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawley criticizes Johnson for &#8216;woke garbage&#8217; in spending bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2381941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hawley-on-Johnson-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[34799,34218,36456],"class_list":["post-2381939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-josh-hawley","tag-mike-johnson","tag-woke-culture"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hawley-on-Johnson-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381939","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381943,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381939\/revisions\/2381943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}