With his job on the line, Mike Johnson cancels appearance at conservative event
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) backed out of an event with Donald Trump on Friday as Congress scrambled to pass a spending bill to stop a government shutdown.Johnson had been scheduled to appear at a Turning Point USA event Friday with Trump and Tucker Carlson, but Johnson's plans were changed by the spending fight, which has placed Johnson's job in jeopardy.
After three days of legislative drama, Johnson passed a bill Friday to keep the government open - but the bill importantly did not include Trump's demands to raise the debt limit.
Earlier in the week, Trump had killed Johnson's first spending bill, a bloated 1,500-page compromise with Democrats that sparked ire from the right while raising doubts about Johnson's future. Trump urged Johnson to get a better deal, which Trump said must include a suspension of the debt limit.
The final deal passed 366-34 and funds the government until March, with $100 billion in disaster aid for hurricane victims and $10 billion for farmers. While smaller than Johnson's original bill, it does not include the debt limit suspension that Trump wanted.
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Donald Trump is giving the headline speech today (around 12:30pm ET) at Turning Point USA's AmFest in Arizona.
I can't stand this name, Turning Point; It sounds like the name of a rehabilitation center for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts!
ReplyDeleteI think Turning Point is a great name for the MAGA movement...turning our country from socialism,communism,globalism, Marxism and Democrats. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteThinking of Journey, but there is also a turning point Church. I wouldn't associate either one of them with a forward-looking politician movement.
ReplyDelete@4:21...of course, you wouldn't.
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