Trump Faces Full Revolt in House as Veto Backfires
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Why is the House quietly planning a revolt against Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson?
Uh-oh, Donald. The House of Representatives is revolting against Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson. They engaged in a major act of quiet defiance. It's not getting a lot of attention. It will in this coming week. But on Friday, again, very quietly, the House of Representatives, via a unanimous consent motion, agreed to take up Donald Trump's two vetoes that he issued recently against And the unstated reason why the House of Representatives is taking this up is to override Donald Trump's vetoes. Let me remind you what Donald Trump vetoed. Let me explain to you what the House is doing. I'll explain to you why MAGA Mike right now is showing a lot of weakness and what we can expect to happen when the House comes back into session, including the fact that there will be a vote in the House of Representatives to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years, something that MAGA Mike has also tried to avoid.
So let me just share with you again, this was Very quietly done. It was posted on the House Press Gallery social media account, but it didn't get a lot of reposts. Here's what they wrote on the House Press Gallery account. The clerk read a veto message from the president regarding H.R. 131. Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act and H.R. 504. the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act. Then shortly thereafter, the House Press Gallery posted, the chair asked for unanimous consent to consider veto messages for H.R. 131 and H.R. 504 to take place on January 8th, 2020. agreed to without objection. So what's going to take place, what that really means, the House will consider overriding Donald Trump's two vetoes.
These were two despicable vetoes by Donald Trump. One has been getting more attention. The one that's been getting more attention is H.R. 131. Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. That was the act that was sponsored by Lauren Boebert. It was a bipartisan bill to provide clean water to at least 50,000 people in Colorado. You know, that Colorado water based on the environment there. can get very toxic and dangerous.
What vetoes did Donald Trump issue and why are they being reconsidered?
So this would provide clean water, make access to water cheaper, and Donald Trump vetoed it for two main reasons. One, Lauren Boebert, one of the main sponsors, she signed on to the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, and Donald Trump is retaliating against Boebert. Also, Donald Trump is retaliating against Colorado in this and many other ways because they are refusing to release Tina Peters, a convicted felon who was involved with Donald Trump as essentially a co-conspirator to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. So that was one of the acts that Donald Trump vetoed. The other involves the Miccosukee tribe, which has its tribal and ceremonial lands in the Everglades area, where the Trump regime, working alongside DeSantis, ignored the tribal rights, tribal claims, ownership of the land by the Miccosukee tribe, and they built
the Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp on the ceremonial grounds of the Miccosukee tribe. As Ana Cabello says, in July, the Miccosukee tribe sued Florida and the federal government over the hastily built immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, a place the Miccosukee call home. Trump just vetoed funding for a water project for the tribe supported on a bipartisan basis. And in Trump's veto, he cites their opposition to his immigration policies. So he's retaliating against the Miccosukee. He's retaliating against Boebert and Colorado. I mean, these are some dastardly, dastardly acts. Now, MAGA Mike Johnson, of course, supports all of Donald Trump's conduct. As Marjorie Taylor Greene recently wrote, the House of Representatives doesn't really have a speaker.
She said, Maga Mike's not really the speaker. He's speaker in name only. He just carries out whatever Donald Trump says to do. So how was it then that on Friday, very quietly, the House of Representatives was able to put on its docket for January 8th, considering the veto messages? And that could mean overriding the vetoes. Well, what I think went down is Maga Mike is realizing that his speakership is hanging by a thread.
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