MAGA Mike Gets Worst News of the Day as Bill Suffers
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Why did MAGA Mike Johnson send members back to their offices and what does it mean for the budget vote?
Wow, MAGA Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House, has just instructed his members they can all go back to their offices. They were waiting on the House floor to begin the votes on the disastrous budget bill, but it does not seem at the moment that they have the votes. There's at least 10 holdouts. Uh Reese Gorman reported that Thomas Massey, MAGA Republican Congress member, enthusiastically. Fantastically has been saying that he has a vote block of 10 Republican members who are no's on the Senate's version of the reconciliation bill. Thomas Massey responded, I don't have a block of anything, but there are probably 10 no votes at the moment, but I don't speak and I don't vouch for them. You see MAGA Mike Johnson right there, running back into the speaker's office.
He's on the Phone with someone. Maybe he's on the phone with Donald Trump right there. Uh, the MAGA Republicans can only afford to lose three votes. If there are four no votes, this disastrous budget bill will fail. And it doesn't seem that they have the votes at this moment. That doesn't mean that this could change in any minute. The MAGA Republicans have been known to say. They're gonna vote against something. Donald Trump calls them, and then they sell out and kill their own constituents. So here's where we're at: Jake Sherman from Punchbowl News reporting that House Republicans are stuck at the moment. They don't have the votes for the rule right now. The floor has been open for nearly two hours as the leadership tries to find their way out of this.
And what it means when it says um they don't have the votes for the rule. First, you have to vote for the rule. It's like a vote to then vote. And then there would be a vote on the disastrous budget bill. If you don't have the votes for the rule, you don't have the votes for the disastrous budget bill. Think about it as having to go over two hurdles. First the rule, and then you clear that, and then you have to be able to pass. The disastrous budget. Here are some observations that Jake Sherman and others were making about what was going down on the House floor. House budget chair Jodie Arrington and Speaker Mike Johnson were in an animated conversation in the front row of the House Chamber.
Who are the ten (or more) MAGA Republicans blocking the disaster budget bill?
That convo was going on for a long time. House votes at that point in time had been open for 90 minutes. Then it lasted more than two hours. Um, and the chamber was frozen ahead of the rule vote. Um Johnson then ran into his office. Uh, the House Freedom Caucus, the far right wing people who said they're not voting for it, they were huddling on the House floor. Um, as we said, the next vote is the rule, which would then bring the Bill to the floor for a vote. I talked about those uh 10 individuals who were holding out. If you've been following the Midas Touch reporting, you knew that we called that out earlier this morning and last night before other media really had been discussing that in earnest. Democratic Congress member Joe Nagus, who has a major role on the rules committee, he took to the House floor and he was in fear.
Infuriated. He wants to know, MAGA Mike Johnson, why do you continue to leave these votes open indefinitely for hours when you don't have enough votes? What the hell are you doing? MAGA Mike, watch this.
Містер спікер, майдерним і републикан leadership Has issued a notice to their members that they are not to be don't aren't required to be on the floor, essentially an informal adjournment. Notwithstanding that this amendment vote is pending, is it appropriate under the rules of procedure of Jefferson's manual? To keep a vote open while simultaneously declaring to members that they're free to leave.
She wants. What the chair would say to the gentleman from Colorado is that the um under clause nine of Rule twenty The minimum underlined minimum time For voting is five minutes. on this vote. This vote remains open. So the minimum time is five minutes, and there's not a maximum time. Uh nor uh to this this chair's um knowledge is there a requirement that during the vote
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did MAGA Mike Johnson send members back to their offices and what does it mean for the budget vote?
0:00–2:22
2
Who are the ten (or more) MAGA Republicans blocking the disaster budget bill?
2:22–4:38
3
What is the “rule” vote and why is it a prerequisite for the budget bill?
4:38–6:40
4
How did House leadership try to break the deadlock on the floor?
6:40–8:33
5
What did Democratic members like Joe Nagus and Jim McGovern say about the bill’s impact on food assistance?
8:33–11:06
6
How are Republican leaders like Jim Jordan and Tom Emmer defending the bill despite criticism?
11:06–13:20
7
What do the latest employment numbers and ADP report reveal about the economy under the proposed legislation?
13:20–15:12
8
Why do critics call the budget bill a ‘catastrophic’ trade‑off for Medicaid, SNAP, and other social programs?
15:12–17:40
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