LD3, The largest Legislative District in Arizona, censured Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at a recent meeting, demanding his resignation as Speaker of the House, and calling for all House Representatives to vacate the chair.
UPDATE: President Trump weighs in on the disastrous CR saying “Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried.”
Speaker Johnson is under fire from several Republican Representatives for his support of the current CR. Critics point out that the CR is full of “pork” and includes funding for pandemic “Disease X” and expands the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness and Response Act including “allows for vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, intentional emergency powers, gain of function research…”, gives automatic raises to Congressmen, allegedly allows quashing of any subpoenas, a one year extension on the State Department’s Global Engagement Center which reportedly has funded speech suppression efforts and is currently being sued by the Federalist and Daily Wire, and holds hostage needed disaster relief funding.
Senator Rand Paul said “I had hoped to see Speaker Johnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man. The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit. A sad day for America.”
Representative Thomas Massie said “People call me ‘NostraThomas’ for accurately predicting Speaker Johnson would use the Christmas recess to force a massive spending bill through Congress. After claiming he would not, Johnson is embracing a D.C. tradition that’s nearly as old as decorating Christmas trees.”
Representative Jim Banks said “This CR funds the censorship of conservative speech for the entire first year of the Trump administration. Unacceptable!”