House Republicans Finally Pass Border Funding Bill After Only 11 Months of Pretending to Care

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of courage that left political observers gasping for air, House Republicans on Wednesday finally pulled the trigger on a Senate-approved bill to fund federal immigration enforcement agencies for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term, right before the government ran out of money and started eating its own tail.

The vote passed 215-211 along strict party lines, because nothing says “bipartisanship” like every Democrat voting to keep the border wide open while calling anyone who wants it closed a Nazi. 

The move ends a partial Department of Homeland Security funding lapse that began February 14th, Valentine’s Day, naturally, and has now become the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history, beating last year’s record like a piñata full of excuses.

With the House’s passage of the Senate’s budget framework, Republicans can now use the magical budget reconciliation process to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection without having to beg a single Democrat for permission. This is a huge relief, as Democrats have historically been about as cooperative on border security as a cat is on taking a bath with a dog.

The GOP is reportedly sprinting toward a deal that could pump up to $70 billion into the two agencies, money that will presumably be used for things like “actually enforcing the law” and “maybe building a wall that doesn’t have a welcome mat and gift shop.”

President Trump, growing visibly tired of watching his own party treat deadlines like gentle suggestions, gave Republicans a firm June 1st cutoff to get a reconciliation bill on his desk or face unspecified but extremely Trumpian consequences.

“We have a real sense of urgency about getting this done,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking to Fox News with the weary tone of a man who just spent five hours in a room full of Republicans who still hadn’t decided if they were allowed to win.

To demonstrate this blistering urgency, GOP leadership kept the vote open for more than five hours while gently persuading the holdouts with promises, snacks, and what sources described as “light threatening.” Six brave representatives flipped from “no” to “yes” at the last possible second: Max Miller, Andy Harris, Victoria Spartz, Harriet Hageman, Andrew Clyde, and Michael Cloud. Political analysts called it “a profile in courage,” while others called it “what happens when leadership starts playing Nickelback outside the conference room.”

Some House Republicans remain concerned that the bill still technically “zeroes out” funding for ICE and CBP in certain creative accounting columns, which is apparently different from not funding them at all. As Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) put it, “It’s one thing to not do the funding. It’s another to put big, fat, insulting zeros right in the bill like you’re mocking us.”

Thanks to reconciliation, the Senate can now ram through the actual funding with a simple majority, bypassing the Democrats’ sacred 60-vote filibuster tradition of “screaming, foot-stomping, and threatening to move to Canada for the 47th time.”

“We have been forced by the Democrats to use reconciliation,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, in the saddest victory speech since participation trophies were invented.

Meanwhile, the White House Office of Management and Budget warned that without funding, DHS personnel could go unpaid in May, once again unleashing chaos on air travel, leaving Secret Service agents and the Coast Guard without paychecks, and generally making the entire country remember why we pay these people in the first place.

At press time, Democrats were reportedly drafting a strongly-worded statement calling the funding of America’s borders “literally fascism,” while Republicans congratulated themselves for almost doing the thing they promised to do.

Yippy-frack!


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‘Nothing To Hide’: Trump Fires Back at Dem Hoax, Demands Full Epstein Files Dump Now

President Trump isn't backing down from the Radical Left's latest witch hunt. On Sunday night, the man who just crushed the Democrats in a landslide victory lit a fire under House Republicans, demanding they vote to unleash every last page of Jeffrey Epstein's filthy files."It's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics..." Trump blasted on Truth Social, calling out the desperate deflection for what it is: a pathetic attempt to smear the GOP's unstoppable momentum.

This comes hot on the heels of Trump's razor-sharp order to the Justice Department probe Epstein's sleazy ties to Big Dem players like Bill Clinton, the king of the Clinton crime family. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is gearing up for a vote this week on a bill that would force the full release. Pass it in the House, and it'll need 60 Senate votes to land on Trump's desk for the signature that buries this nonsense once and for all.

"As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown,'" Trump wrote, dropping truth bombs that have the swamp in full panic mode.

Trump laid it out plain: The DOJ's already coughed up tens of pages on Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can grab whatever it's legally owed. No smoke, no fire—except the one burning the Democrats' bridges.

"Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory," Trump hammered home. "Some 'members' of the Republican Party are being 'used,' and we can't let that happen. Let's start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein 'TRAP,' which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us."

Bingo. 

Trump's zeroing in on the real dirt: His directive has the DOJ eyeing "various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein." And in a follow-up gut punch, Trump vowed to prosecute any Dems caught in "sleazy relationships" with the predator.

Enough with the Epstein sideshow, Trump says; time to roar about the real wins. Skyrocketing economy. Massive tax cuts for working Americans. Trillions pouring in from investors betting on America First. And Trump's iron-fisted crackdown on the Biden-era border invasion that's flooding our streets with chaos.

Trump's had it up to here with the Epstein obsession. Just last week, desperate Dems leaked a batch of emails where Epstein spewed lies, claiming Trump "knew about the girls" and "spent hours" at his creepy lair with one victim. Total bull frisbees. The House GOP Oversight Committee fired back with 20,000 pages of docs on Wednesday, and the White House slammed the door: Trump had zero involvement in Epstein's depravity.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt nailed it: The so-called "victim" in those emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, who never once pointed a finger at Trump. Another Dem dirty trick, exposed and eviscerated. 

As Trump might say, 'They should be ashamed of themselves.'

Trump's message is crystal: We've got nothing to hide, but the Democrats are sweating bullets. 

House GOP needs to step up and release the files, crush the hoax, and let's get back to Making America Great Again. 

The Radical Left's playbook is toast.

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WOW! Trump was an FBI informer on Epstein and the Left's narrative just imploded

House Speaker Mike Johnson just dropped a nuke on the Epstein saga that nobody saw coming. In a CNN grilling by Manu Raju, Johnson was defending Trump's use of 'hoax' to describe the Epstein files mess when he casually let slip a bombshell: Donald Trump was an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein. 

Whoop-dee-doo-- you read that right; Trump was actually helping the feds take him down.

"What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him," Johnson said, swatting away the tired narrative. "He has never said or suggested or implied, I've talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It's been misrepresented. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself."

Then came the mic-drop moment.

"When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down," Johnson said, confirming for the first time that Trump was working with the feds to nail Epstein. Let that sink in.

Johnson didn't stop there. He made it crystal clear Trump was repulsed by Epstein’s crimes. 

"The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago," he said. Then Johnson called out the Democrats for their selective outrage. "What he's talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn't they do something during the four years of the Biden administration when the Biden DOJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now, they're doing it for political purposes."

Sound familiar? Johnson says it's the same old playbook. "They’re creating a hoax, just like they did with the Russian dossier, because they think it's going to somehow be mud thrown on him. It's not. He has no culpability in this thing at all. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records out. He has told me that himself."

When Raju pushed on whether Trump should meet with Epstein's victims, because, of course, the media loves a gotcha, Johnson didn't flinch. "I suspect he probably will. Yeah, he has great compassion for them," he said. "The President has a very compassionate heart. He hates the fact that these women suffered those wrongs. He hates what Epstein is accused of and who he was."

Johnson doubled down, pointing out Trump cut ties with Epstein long before it was trendy. "When he recognized that, he realized Epstein wasn't just some sort of, you know, socialite. He was an evil person, and, you know, alleged to have been involved in evil schemes. And the president distanced himself, before he was president, from that because that’s not who he is."

This is the kind of revelation that should have the left's heads exploding. For years, they've been trying to tie Trump to Epstein's crimes, and now we find out he was helping the FBI? Crickets from the legacy media, naturally. They're too busy clutching their pearls to report something that doesn’t fit the narrative. Meanwhile, Trump's out here with clean hands, calling for the files to be released, and the X-sphere's already buzzing with reactions. The truth’s a tough pill for some to swallow.

Suck it up, Democrats.

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Rep. Stefanik seems to accuse Speaker Johnson of lying in House spat

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when House GOP leaders start throwing shade in public. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the once-and-future Trump darling, just about called Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a fibber on Tuesday over some alleged chitchat about the New York governor’s race. 

And guys, this is the kind of Republican-on-Republican drama that makes you grab the popcorn.

Johnson, trying to play the cool boss, told reporters he’s been having “conversations” with Stefanik and her fellow New Yorker, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), when asked if he’d been jawing about the upcoming gubernatorial election with the two potential candidates. You know, just casual water-cooler talk about who might run the Empire State. No biggie, right?

Wrong. Stefanik wasn’t having it. She hopped on X, citing a Punchbowl News report about Johnson’s press conference comments, and dropped a truth bomb: “This is not true. I have had no conversations with the Speaker regarding the Governor’s race.” 

Ouch. That’s not a subtweet; that’s a public slap. She followed it up with a teaser, writing, “Looking forward to the conversation about [State and Local Taxes] with NY Members tomorrow. Stay tuned.” 

When Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson’s camp for a response, his spokesman just pointed back to the Speaker’s post-presser remarks like a kid dodging homework. Johnson, trying to smooth things over, said, “I just talked to her. Elise is one of my closest friends. We haven't specifically talked about her running for governor, but all these other things. She's coming in to visit with me, and it's all good.” 

All good? Sure, Mike, nothing says “all good” like your colleague publicly calling you out.

This little spat is a jaw-dropping clash between two heavyweights in House GOP leadership, and it’s happening fresh off Stefanik’s return to her full-time House gig. 

Let’s rewind: Stefanik was all set to glide into the Senate confirmation process as President Donald Trump’s pick for U.N. ambassador. It was supposed to be a cakewalk. But the House’s paper-thin majority and some hand-wringing over who’d replace her in her upstate New York district threw a wrench in the plan. Trump, not one to let his loyalists twist in the wind, told her to forgo the ambassador gig.

So, Stefanik ditched her House GOP Conference chair role and two plum committee spots on intelligence and education to prep for the U.N. job. But when that fell through, Trump leaned on Johnson to hook her up with a new top role. Johnson, ever the team player, named her chair of House Republican leadership. 

Problem solved? Not quite.

Just days later, whispers started swirling—confirmed by sources to Fox News Digital and others—that Stefanik was eyeing a run for New York governor. And who could blame her? Albany’s a step up from the House’s knife-fight politics. 

When reporters pressed Johnson on Tuesday about whether he’d talked to Stefanik and Lawler about jumping into the governor’s race, he played coy: “I have lots of conversations.”

Then he got all warm and fuzzy, saying, “I love them both. They're two of my favorite people and most trusted colleagues. And, and they're both super talented, which is why they get talked about for doing other things… I mean, my preference is they all stay here with me, right. But I don't begrudge anybody for having other opportunities. And we ultimately support them in whatever they do. But, are we having conversations? We are. Yeah. And that's all I'm going to say about it.”

Translation: “I’m not spilling the tea, but yeah, we’re talking.” Too bad Stefanik’s out here saying those talks never happened. Someone’s story isn’t adding up, and this public dust-up is giving us a front-row seat to the House GOP’s latest soap opera. 

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Anti-Israel/anti-Semitic violent protesters at Barnard College arrested

More protests broke out on Thursday at Barnard College, in New York City, after a group of more than 50 anti-Israel Jew-hating Islamists took over a building on campus the day before.

The NYPD made several arrests after the protests reignited, with about 100 anti-Israel protesters gathering in front of the entrance to Barnard, once again wearing masks and keffiyehs and chanting, "Free Palestine," a place that only exists in their minds.

Tension rose and became more chaotic as protesters marched from Barnard to CUNY's City College campus, to protest outside Gov. Kathy Hochul's event at CUNY, which was canceled due to the anticipated protest and her fear of getting involved.

The protesters were heard chanting criticisms of Hochul and "NYPD KKK," and tried to breach police barricades and get close to officers' faces. The irony is that the Jew-hating protesters are indistinguishable from the KKK when it comes to their racist hatred.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), spoke out against the protests.

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH," Johnson wrote in a post on X.

"Pro-Hamas mobs have NO place on our college campuses. Barnard College & Columbia University must put an end to the anti-Semitic chaos on campus."

Robin Levine, Barnard’s vice president for strategic communications, confirmed that a faculty member was injured during Wednesday's protest and sent to the hospital, but did not offer further details, in spite of her being Jewish but not wanting to get labeled Islamophobic.

"They encouraged others to enter campus without identification, showing blatant disregard for the safety of our community," Levine said in a previous statement.

The school warned that if the students were not gone by 9:30 p.m., officials would be forced to take "additional, necessary measures to protect our campus." 

Power hoses might suffice.

The protesters began leaving the building by 11 p.m., according to reports by FOX 5 New York as it was for many, their bedtime.

The students were protesting the expulsion of two students who stormed a Columbia University classroom in January and allegedly threw around flyers filled with hateful, anti-Semitic speech.

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, a place they cannot show us on a map, displayed videos on X of masked students in a hallway on Wednesday, beating on drums and chanting on megaphones.

The account also posted a list of demands accompanied by "WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET. FREE PALESTINE."

If they get arrested, they will stop.

The demands include an "immediate reversal of the two Barnard students’ expulsions" and "amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action or thought. Drop all the charges now!" 

Sorry, children, but people who commit crimes must be held accountable, as I hope you soon find out in a more personal way.

The protesters also requested a public meeting with Dean Leslie Grinage and President Laura Rosenbury, and the abolition of the "corrupt Barnard disciplinary process," demanding complete transparency for current, past and future disciplinary proceedings.

The students vowed that they will continue to disrupt the campus until these demands are met, so they obviously need to be held accountable.

We shall see, but don't hold your breath.

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House passes Laken Riley Act again: 159 leftist Democrats oppose it

On Tuesday, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed the "Laken Riley Act" once again, legislation that mandates federal officials to arrest undocumented immigrants charged with theft in the United States. While that should be a 'no-brainer,' some on the left don't agree with the bill.

The bill garnered support from forty-eight Democrats and 216 Republicans, securing its approval in the House. It had previously passed in March of the previous year, but this session saw 159 Democrats voting against it, down from 170 in the prior vote.

These dissenting votes, according to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), demonstrated that some Democrats "ignored" the public's demand for "secure borders, the deportation of violent illegal aliens, and laws that put the safety and security of the American people first."

This act is named in honor of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia who was brutally killed last year. The convicted scumcrumpet, Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.

The legislation would compel the Secretary of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants charged with theft within the U.S. and also grants states the authority to sue federal officials for "injunctive relief" should immigration policies or actions adversely affect their citizens.

During the debate, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) criticized the bill, stating that it was an attempt by lawmakers to "score cheap political points off of a tragic death" and that it "unfairly sweeps up many more innocent lives with no due process."

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), who reintroduced the bill for the current session of Congress, highlighted in a press release that the Laken Riley Act "directly addresses one of the federal policy failures" linked to Riley's murder. According to Collins, "Ibarra is an illegal alien who had been previously cited for shoplifting by the Athens Police Department. If local law enforcement had called ICE, and ICE issued a detainer and picked him up, Laken would be alive."

Although the Senate, under Democratic control, did not previously vote on the Laken Riley Act, with the shift to Republican control, a Senate version of the bill has been reintroduced. Notably, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has co-sponsored this effort, commenting, "Laken Riley’s story is a tragic reminder of what’s at stake when our systems fail to protect people. No family should have to endure the pain of losing a loved one to preventable violence."

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House passes $900 billion defense bill and defunds transgender procedures for military children

Sorry boys and girls, if you somehow were thinking you were born in the wrong body because a grownup convinced you of this, you are going to have to wait and grow up before you can get your genitals chopped off, even if Mommy and/or Daddy in the military want this for you. 

See, the House of Representatives, while approving the annual defense bill of $900,000,000,000, it will ban taxpayer funding for transgender procedures that might cause you kids to become sterile for the rest of your lives.

This year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was passed by the House of Representatives with a vote of 281 to 140, authorizing nearly $900 billion in spending. The vote saw 200 Republicans and 81 Democrats in favor, while 124 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it.

Section 708 of the NDAA specifies that “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization may not be provided to a child under the age of 18.” This was first reported by the conservative outlet The Daily Wire on Saturday.

Democrats and left-wing lunatics have claimed that transgender procedures for children are "life-saving" and help prevent suicide. On the other hand, Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, have strongly opposed these claims, arguing that such procedures can lead to sterilization. They assert that the military should focus on defending the United States rather than facilitating gender transitions for minors. In fact, some data [e.g., the Cass Review] concluded that gender-affirming treatments do not reduce the risk of suicide in children and young people with gender dysphoria. This suggests that there are other factors in play.

“Today’s NDAA is a step toward restoring our armed forces by rejecting the woke agenda and refocusing on military readiness,” said Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas. “This bill bans TRICARE coverage for sex-change surgeries for minors, authorizes National Guard deployments to secure our southern border, and provides a 19.5% pay raise for junior enlisted personnel.”

“While this bill is a net positive, it’s not perfect,” he added. “Thankfully, we will soon have a new Commander-in-Chief who will take the necessary steps to complete what this bill started, fully restore our military’s focus on strength and readiness, and completely end the woke agenda across the federal government. This bill is just the beginning of the work that needs to be done.”

On Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the NDAA provision a “critical and necessary step” in the fight against “radical gender ideology.”

“Taxpayer dollars should never be used to support procedures and treatments that could permanently harm and sterilize young people,” Johnson told The Daily Wire on Saturday. “In this year’s NDAA, we’re taking a critical and necessary step to protect the children of American service members from radical gender ideology and experimental drugs.”

He further promised: “House Republicans will continue to take action to protect America’s kids.”

But House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member, Adam Smith (D-WA), called the bill “bigoted against the trans community,” claiming it undermined the bipartisan bill.

“The medical profession has no dispute that in some instances, this treatment is crucial to the health and well-being of our children,” he claimed. “And we are now denying that to the children of servicemembers.”

Democratic Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, who chairs the House Equality Caucus, told POLITICO that “Big Brother, big government attacks like those just don’t belong in this bill,” arguing that Republicans prioritized “right-wing extremist dogma over national defense.”

And Republican Congressman Mike Rogers said Tuesday that he disagrees with the move to ban transgender procedures for military children in the NDAA, arguing that President-elect Donald Trump could resolve the issue upon taking office.

“My preference would have been that we just let the president, on Jan. 20, deal with these,” the Alabama Republican told The Hill’s Emily Brooks, “which he’s already indicated he’s going to do.”

Trump “is going to stop all these social, cultural issues from being embedded as policies,” he added. “So my point is, I don’t know why this is in the bill when Jan. 20, it’s a moot point.”

But the language has garnered praise from advocates opposing irreversible transgender transition procedures for children.

American Principles Project president Terry Schilling celebrated the news of the legislation’s passage in a Wednesday statement, saying: “We are grateful for the principled leadership of Speaker Johnson in ensuring this important protection was included in the bill. And we urge Republican leaders in both chambers to continue to prioritize this issue, both for the remainder of this Congress and especially in the next one. Voters this November gave the GOP a mandate to act — now they must follow through.”

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Biden thinks he was VP for 12 years and race riots 'could happen again'

PINO Joseph Biden, 81, screwed up the script as usual on Friday at a civil rights event in the Oval Office. He said that he served as Vice President for 12 years until he caught his error, but then claimed that deadly race riots "could happen again" in America.

Way to bring down the temperature, Joefish.

Our obviously senile demented leader of the free world

Biden, 81, made the remarks while signing an order to designate a national monument in Springfield, Ill., an area where, in August 1908, a White lynch mob clashed with Black residents near Abraham Lincoln’s former home.

“I never thought that, having been in the Senate for so many years as well as vice president for 12 years — for 8 years and president for 4 years that I’d see, that I’d have to worry about people wanting to erase history,” Biden said as he referenced Republican-led states that are banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory, which emphasizes race as the primary lens for historical analysis--a racist way of thinking that pretends to signal virtue.

“It’s important, important, important,” the idiot emphasized by repeating the word and then slapping the Resolute Desk with his hand, “that anybody that walks by this area knows what happened here because it could happen again if we don’t take care of ourselves and fight for this democracy.”

Biden, you might recall, was good buddies with KKK leader Robert Byrd, and gave a eulogy at his funeral, so please don't hand the American people your malarkey that you're a warrior for better race relations.

At least 17 people are believed to have died in the Springfield riot, including members of the mob and black residents. Things in the USA had improved since then and again deteriorated under the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.

After a series of mental screwups and instances of obvious confusion had raised concerns about a potential landslide loss to "Orange Man Bad," Biden was pressured by fellow leftists last month to forget that he received all of the delegates' votes for his Party and drop out of the campaign for his second term because he was running far behind former President Trump. So rather respecting the system of our representative government, the Democrats did not respect the voters and put the incompetent Vice President Kamala Harris up for the nomination.

Prominent Republicans, such as House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Ohio Senator JD Vance, who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate, have urged President Biden to resign before his term concludes on January 20, citing concerns about his cognitive fitness.

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Biden-Harris admin. dance backwards over plea deal for 911 mass murderers

First, you say, you do

And then you don't

And then you say, you will

And then you won't

You're undecided now

So what are you gonna do?

Those are some of the words to a song titled "Undecided," sung by the immortal Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. It seems like this should be the theme song for the Biden-Harris administration. They change their mind more often than Biden changes his skivvies.

The Biden Administration made a significant U-turn in the plea deal for the accused 911 terrorists on Friday, a group of scumbags responsible for killing 2,977 people in New York City's Twin Towers on that clear, sunny Tuesday morning. 

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [aka KSM] was the principal architect behind the attacks that day. He played a critical role in planning, organizing, and executing the plot.

He is credited with presenting the idea of a large-scale attack using hijacked commercial airlines, to Osama bin Laden and after getting the go-ahead from that scumbag, began to plan the operation.

KSM oversaw the target selection, logistics, recruitment of Muslims who believe by killing non-Muslims in a suicide event, they would go to Paradise (Jannah), and he also trained them and dealt with the financing and operational support of the evil mission known as Islamic jihad.

KSM was also the person who beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002. If anyone on the planet deserves to be put down like a dog, it's KSM.

KSM's arrest was a significant event in the U.S.-led War on Terror. He was captured on March 1, 2003, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and subsequently held in U.S. custody. Later, he was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where he faces charges for his role in the attacks. His trial has been delayed multiple times due to legal and procedural issues.

He was facing the death penalty, along with Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi who have been held in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp [aka Gitmo]. But the Biden-Harris administration had a plea deal with the terrorists that would remove the death penalty if they plead guilty to myriad charges.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin fell on the proverbial sword for the Biden-Harris administration, a walked back the plea deal for the 911 mastermind, and allowed Biden to pretend he only heard about the plea deal just a day before it was offered, and Harris to avoid dealing with the administration's involvement.

The only reason Austin rejected the plea deal was due to the blowback the administration received by the families of the dead.

Austin also relieved Brigadier General Susan K Escallier, the Biden DEI official overseeing the case, from her duties.

So, the death penalty is still on the table for the accused jihadi scum.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) castigated the Biden-Harris administration's "cowardice," and said it was a disgrace. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was astounded that this administration has "done the unthinkable."

I personally hope to hear Escallier's explanation as to what the hell she was thinking.

Finally, why did Biden allegedly learn about the plea deal just one day prior to it being considered? Oh wait--it's because he's senile and forgot that he knew about it, along with his VP Chuckles the Clown--and it only got walked back when they discovered how it would cause the Party to lose millions of American votes.

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Bipartisan lawmakers give strong warning to Biden amid Iran attack

Republican and Democrat lawmakers were quite vocal with alleged President Joe Biden after Iran, in an unprecedented event, attacked Israel with dozens of drones on Saturday. Since then, Iran has fired over 350 weapons aimed toward Israel, in which 99% of them were destroyed.

Biden's brilliant response to Iran a day before they launched the attack was "don't." This caused the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini to quake in his winter lungi. Not.

Biden is as intimidating as the character Bernie from "Weekend at Bernie's." World leaders not only fail to see him as a convincing threat, they tend to see him as barely sentient and often incontinent.

After Iran's attack, Republicans criticized him for his impotent global policies.

For starters, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blamed the Biden Administration, saying that Biden’s lack of threat toward Iran aggravated the country's attack.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) stated that Biden drives the U.S. towards WWIII, adding that Americans need Trump back in office more than ever.

And GOP firebrand Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz pointed out important differences concerning U.S. foreign policy between the Trump and Biden administrations. (Guess who's the one that earns global respect, or at least fear.)

Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn blamed the Biden Administration for the attack, saying that D.C. Democrats are funding the attacks on foreign countries.

And let's not forget that Biden handed Iran a big sack of money, which he hope will feed Iran's hungry LGBTQ community.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not hold back on his thoughts either as Israel braced for an attack.

“Iran has encircled Israel and has been attacking our Israeli allies from almost every front for months. They have launched attacks from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, the West Bank, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, and of course the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Now they have escalated by launching attacks directly from Iranian territory," Cruz said in a statement. "These attacks are enabled and financed by deliberate policy choices made by Joe Biden and Biden officials, who have allowed roughly $100 billion to flow to Iran since 2021. Americans and Israelis have been made catastrophically more vulnerable by these policies."

So the attack happened and Israel's military defense along with the help of the U.S., UK, France, Jordan and the Saudis, pushed Iran back over 10 yards with fourth down coming up.

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Is Biden showing us what's really not going on in his head?

President Joe Obama Biden issued an actual proclamation signed on a WH.gov letter head stationery declaring Easter Sunday, March 31st, Trans Visibility Day. 

No kids, that doesn't mean that people who have had their genitals mutilated and reshaped to look like they belong to the opposite sex of which they are, or had their breasts removed, that they must make those body parts publicly visible, it simply means something, something. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson questions whether Biden "knew what he was signing" when he put his name on the Trans Visibility Day proclamation. After all, Biden doesn't seem to know what's going on even when it's in front of him, or when he thinks it's in front of him and tries to shake hands with it.

Rather than having the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Easter Sunday as had been the tradition since April 22, 1878 when Rutherford B. Hayes was President, our alleged President chose Monday for the event. 

Speaker Johnson said that Biden (who pretends to be a "devout Catholic" in spite of his willingness to kill the unborn right up until the "un" part is deleted) "betrayed" Easter tenets. Biden, for his part, accused Johnson of being being "thoroughly uninformed" before retorting "I didn't do that," as reported by Fox News.

But there's that inconvenient proclamation I mentioned above [see image below].

So the question is, did Biden lie to us when he claimed he never did that? Or does he not know he signed it because his brain functioning is on the level of a very hungry caterpillar? Or did someone else proclaim the Trans Day of Visibility and simply had him sign it without explaining what he was signing? Or has Barack Obama become a master forger?

Johnson spoke on Fox News' Sean Hannity show Monday and suggested that the controversy is just another indication that Biden has the mental acuity of a dandelion. 

"Well, it's his own signature on the document. That's why we posted it," he said on "Hannity." "The evidence speaks for itself, as we used to say in the courtroom."

"[I]t's highly possible that he doesn't even know what he's signing," Johnson added. "[T]hat might be even more alarming."

Who reading this doesn't think that Biden is out to lunch?

"This radical, leftist, progressive vision for the country is not who we are as Americans, and I think most of the country agrees with us -- And I think that's why we're going to have a very successful election in November," the Speaker said.

Rachel C. Crocker, not Betty Crocker

Transgender Day of Visibility was started in 2009 by Transgender Michigan executive director Rachel Crandall Crocker, a dude who looks like a dude with a cross-dressing fetish. If you can imagine him with blonde hair and a Naval uniform, you might see him as another Rachel, Rear Admiral Rachel Levine.

The fact that Biden's handler[s] chose Easter Sunday for this ridiculous event, and Monday for the Easter Egg Roll to break tradition, is just another example of this administration's goal of flipping off normal Americans, and a rather stupid political ploy.

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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) or MTG as she is called by people who refuse to use all three of her names, appears to be the GOP's rake and all Republicans need to do is step on it. She has filed a motion to have the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson removed from his speakership.

The House voted in favor of a comprehensive $1,200,000,000,000 government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and now it goes to the Senate. To put it in perspective, if one had to count to this number at one second intervals, we could do the math:

1 trillion is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 (12 zeros) and 200 million is equal to 200,000,000.

So, the total number would be 1,000,000,000,000 + 200,000,000 = 1,200,000,000,000

Since you would be counting in one-second intervals, it would take a total of 1,200,000,000,000 seconds to count to one trillion, two hundred million.

Now, let's convert this to years:

1 year = 365 days = 365 days x 24 hours = 8,760 hours = 8,760 hours x 3600 seconds = 31,536,000 seconds

To calculate the number of years it would take to count to 1,200,000,000,000 seconds, you would divide 1,200,000,000,000 by 31,536,000:

1,200,000,000,000 / 31,536,000 ≈ 38,016.872 years

Therefore, it would take approximately 38,016.872 years to count to one trillion, two hundred million in one-second intervals.

So that's a lot of seconds and a heck of a lot of dollars when you put it in perspective.

"All 100 senators will need to green-light a vote to pass the bill before the midnight deadline," explains NBC News. "If that doesn’t happen, the government would be forced into a partial shutdown on Saturday morning. President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass it quickly and said he’ll sign the bill."

“This hasn’t been a perfect process. But we should never let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), said. “This is a good result for the American people.”

The bill funds the departments of Homeland Security, State, Labor, Defense, Health and Human Services as well as other agencies. Together with the $459 billion bill passed earlier this month, it fully funds the federal government to the tune of $1.659 trillion through September, after months of stopgap bills and negotiations.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (RINO-AK) said the impending two-week recess would motivate the Senate to get unanimous consent to vote quickly and pass the bill. “This is the United States Senate,” Murkowski said. “We’re motivated by recesses.”

The legislation was negotiated by Speaker Johnson, (R-LA) Senate Majority Leader Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer (D-NY), top appropriators in both parties and the White House. 

Both parties scored some wins: Democrats said they “defeated outlandish cuts” proposed by Republicans and kept out abortion restrictions so that babies can continue to be killed in the womb and maybe someday soon after they leave it. 

GOP leaders touted more immigration funding for border agents and detention beds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A reported 112 Republicans voted against the bill, while only 23 Democrats voted against it. And MTG  is said to be so unhappy that she has filed a motion to remove Speaker Johnson  from his position, according to a report from Punchbowl's Jake Sherman.

BREAKING NEWS -- @RepMTG has filed a motion to vacate @SpeakerJohnson, according to multiple sources on the House floor.

Stay tuned for more info.....— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 22, 2024

Greene reportedly voiced "extreme opposition" to a $1.2 trillion spending bill prior to her making her move against the Speaker. According to Axios, "Greene isn't yet forcing the vote to remove Johnson as speaker — but the move lays the groundwork for another historic showdown on the House floor."

Last year another GOP firebrand, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a motion to vacate the speakership after the passage of the stopgap resolution funding the government for another 45 days without new aid for Ukraine.

Republicans only have a thin majority in the House and that has become even thinner, so they can't afford this internal bickering. This only gives Democrats the advantage and makes the GOP look like a bunch of 3-year-old fighting over a toy in a sandbox.

Just freaking stop it.

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McConnell moonwalks backwards from border bill

Suddenly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is urging Senate Republicans to vote against a border bill that was unveiled in the Democrat-controlled chamber on Monday, now that the bill has been read and exposed for the piece of Democrat crap that it is.

The garbage heap $118,000,000,000 package is not about border security--it's about Democrat's election security in 2024. It's designed to get our demented President re-elected. 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the bill "legalizes illegal immigration." Many other GOP senators have already voiced strong opposition to the steaming dung heap and now McConnell, realizing his political career hangs in the balance, is urging remaining GOPers to block the bill.

“McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources, bc it’s clear that most Republicans are preparing to vote no — either because they oppose the bill or want more time,” reporter Andrew Desiderio wrote on X.

“McConnell explicitly recommended a NO vote on cloture on the motion to proceed, according to several attendees,” he continued. “McConnell said the problem isn’t what Lankford negotiated, it’s that the political mood in the country has changed.”

Political mood has changed? The nation overwhelmingly never felt that illegal immigration was okay. It was only the far-left that held this belief. 

Top House Republicans signaled shortly after the bill was unveiled that it would be dead on arrival if it made it to the lower chamber. Lankford lied to us.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) killed the bill in a joint statement.

“House Republicans oppose the Senate immigration bill because it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration,” the statement said. “Among its many flaws, the bill expands work authorizations for illegal aliens while failing to include critical asylum reforms. Even worse, its language allowing illegals to be ‘released from physical custody’ would effectively endorse the Biden ‘catch and release’ policy.”

“The so-called ‘shutdown’ authority in the bill is anything but, riddled with loopholes that grant far too much discretionary authority to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – who has proven he will exploit every measure possible, in defiance of the law, to keep the border open,” the statement continued. “The bill also fails to adequately stop the President’s abuse of parole authority and provides for taxpayer funds to fly and house illegal immigrants in hotels through the FEMA Shelter and Services Program.”

“America’s sovereignty is at stake,” the statement concluded. “Any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time. It is DEAD on arrival in the House. We encourage the U.S. Senate to reject it.”

As usual, the Democrats were hoping the Republicans wouldn't actually read the bill and just sign it first, like Nancy "Dancing Dentures" Pelosi once suggested.

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Speaker Johnson reveals standalone Israel bill House will vote on to provide $17.6B in aid

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed to GOP on Saturday a bill that will be voted on in the coming week. It's a "clean" standalone bill, meaning it only deals with one issue and doesn't try to sneak anything else into it.

The new bill, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, would provide $17.6 billion in military assistance for Israel, as well as funding for US forces in the region, according to Calvert’s office. Compared to what we already gave Ukraine, this amount is a pittance. 

The legislation, to be introduced by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), has backing from the House Republican leadership and the Republican-controlled Appropriations Committee.

In a letter to his GOP colleagues detailing the new bill, Speaker Johnson blasted the Senate for shutting him and the House out of the bipartisan negotiations over a border security deal, which will likely be tied to foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. In other words, not a clean bill by the Senate.

“While the Senate appears poised to finally release text of their supplemental package after months of behind closed doors negotiations, their leadership is aware that by failing to include the House in their negotiations, they have eliminated the ability for swift consideration of any legislation,” Johnson wrote. “The House will have to work its will on these issues and our priorities will need to be addressed.” 

Johnson continued to blast the Senate for its  “failure to move appropriate legislation in a timely fashion” amid the “perilous circumstances currently facing Israel.” 

He also said that the House would take the lead to ensure aid for the United States’ Middle East ally. “Next week, we will take up and pass a clean, standalone Israel supplemental package,” he wrote.

“During debate in the House and in numerous subsequent statements, Democrats made clear that their primary objection to the original House bill was with its offsets. The Senate will no longer have excuses, however misguided, against swift passage of this critical support for our ally.”

Last year, the House approved $14.3 billion in aid to Israel after they were viciously attacked by Hamas, which was offset by IRS spending cuts that the left opposed because they are like drunken sailors when it comes to spending.

The fact that this bill is clean puts pressure on the Democrats to back it, and it will be interesting to see who, beyond the anti-Semites in the so called Squad will go against our closest ally in the Middle East.

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House advances articles of impeachment against DHS waste Alejandro Mayorkas

House Republicans revealed on Sunday two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the incredibly incompetent Homeland Security Secretary. DHS is so impotent that it might as well be dismantled altogether.

Mayorkas the articles say, has failed to do his job by not only allowing thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens, record breaking numbers, to enter the country unvetted, but has all but welcomed them at taxpayer's expense and personal security.

The articles accuse the arrogant and somewhat effeminate POS of willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.

We will know on Tuesday whether the House Homeland Security Committee approves of the charges that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed to hold a floor vote.

The first article says Mayorkas chose not to enforce the law, specifically a requirement that asylum seekers who illegally cross the border “shall be detained” until there is a decision on their status — with release into the US interior only allowed on a case-by-case basis.

 Mayorkas, 64. isn't the only Cabinet secretary to be impeached, but he's certainly the only one since 1876 when Secretary of War William Belknap received the dishonor.

Hopefully, this will be a clear message to the current clusterfrack of an administration that Americans are fed up with the border crisis and are not going to sit by and do nothing.

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Speaker Johnson says Federal workers who participate in pro-Palestinian walk-out "deserve to be fired"

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Sunday that government workers who take part in a walk out to protest President Biden's policies regarding the Israeli-Hamas conflict "deserve to be fired."

Johnson pledged that he'd work with Houses Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) to start disciplinary proceedings against those who participate in the walkout.

"Any government worker who walks off the job to protest U.S. support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers," Johnson wrote in a statement on X.

Johnson's words came after reports that hundreds of federal government employees are planning to walk out on Tuesday to protest of the Biden administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

There was no immediate response to Johnson's threats from labor associations or unions concerning workers' First Amendment rights and employment protections under various contracts.

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Rep. George Santos has been dealt with

The GOP’s House of Representative embarrassment George Santos (R-NY) has become the first House lawmaker to be expelled in over two decades as a hush floated across the House chamber when Speaker Johnson formalized the result of the vote.

The former congressman left the House chamber before all the votes were cast and didn't answer reporter's questions.

The last time a member of Congress was expelled was in 2002 when Rep. Jim Traficant (D-OH) got the boot. It takes a two-thirds majority so expelling someone isn't easy in spite of members who deserve that fate, such as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). 

In Traficant's case, he was convicted on 10 felony counts, including racketeering and accepting bribes. In Santos' case, it includes allegedly using campaign funds to buy himself designer clothing and other personal expenses like botox treatment, credit card fraud, 23 counts related to wire fraud, identity theft, falsification of records, and other illegal activities. 

Santos will go to trial early next year, and if somehow divine intervention finds him not guilty of all the charges against him, this will make for an interesting development since he was ousted before having gone to trial. He has pleaded not guilty.

The 311 to 114 vote was largely bipartisan, although a few more Republicans voted to keep the liar in office than to throw him out.

Speaker Johnson would not answer reporters' questions on the expulsion when leaving the House chamber after the vote.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, (D-MD) told Fox News Digital after the vote, "This was not a partisan effort. It was a reflection that, I think, House members came to a conclusion that, given the facts surrounding Santos, election and post-election, that he defamed the House of Representatives…and was not an appropriate person to represent people in the United States Congress."

Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) said that expelling Santos now would take away the presumption of innocence he is entitled to and mentioned that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who was accused of taking bribes and working in the interest of Egyptian officials, was not removed from the Senate.

But Menendez should have been, this writer believes.

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Speaker Mike Johnson talks to Santos "about his options” as the boot gets ready

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been in contact with that lying Rep. George Santos (R-NY) ahead of a possible removal from Congress following a damning House Ethics Committee report.

Johnson spoke to reporters in Sarasota, Florida and told the press that he had “spoken to Congressman Santos at some length over the holiday and talked to him about his options,” [H/T ScrippsNews)

If Santos gets the boot in the butt, he will be the first member of Congress to be expelled in more than twenty years.

Video via @FBSaunders / @scrippsnewsFlorida pic.twitter.com/aKvgZPsdY2

If he somehow doesn’t get expelled, then Congress is as corrupt as the Biden administration.

Regarding the prospect of an expulsion vote this week, NBC News reported that Johnson said “it remains to be seen,” adding that lawmakers will be discussing the matter when they return from the Thanksgiving recess on Tuesday.

Santos was elected to his first term to represent Long Island district last November and thus helped the GOP win a slim majority in the House. However, his finances and balderdash created controversy and multiple inquiries grew which soon pressured him to leave office, which he said, at the time, that he never would.

Now the lying congressman has been handed 23 federal charges including aggravated identity theft, [which Joe Biden also seems to share as he says that he’s the President of the United States of America], wire fraud, and conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, which is yet another lie, I believe.

Earlier this month the House Ethics Committee [an oxymoron] released a report saying investigators discovered evidence that Santos violated the House rules and criminal laws.

The gay, Hispanic, Jewish, Catholic, called the congressional inquiry a “smear,” and after the House Ethics report was released, he said that he wouldn’t seek reelection, but pledged, “I will continue on my mission to serve my constituents up until I am allowed.”

Here is a list of a few of his alleged lies in no particular order:

1. He never went to Horace Mann H.S. in the Bronx nor graduate in 2008, after which he said he went to Baruch College and graduated in 2010, in just two years of a four-year degree.

2. He lied to campaign donors and used their money to buy designer clothing.

3. He lied to get unemployment benefits.

4. He committed identity theft using the names of donor on credit cards.

5. Lied to Congress with many inconsistencies on his financial statement.

6. He reimbursed himself for loans he did not make.

7. He claimed to have worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup—no such records were found.

8. He lied about founding an animal charity “Friends of Pets United,” but there are no records of that company.

9. Swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying—Richard Osthoff in 2016.

10. His grandmother was not a Holocaust victim, which he claimed.

11. He claimed he had employees who died in the Pulse shooting in 2016—not true.

12. Claimed he had a niece who was kidnapped in Queens, NY but that there is not record of that.

If this guy doesn’t remind you of Joe Biden, I don’t know who would.

Anyway, Santos survived many attempts by his GOP colleagues to expel him from the House this year, but this time may be different with House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest (R-MO) bringing forth another expulsion resolution with a growing number of lawmakers saying they would vote to get him out of the House.

Getting expelled from the House of Representatives is very rare, only being done a handful of times throughout U.S. history partly because it requires a two-thirds majority vote to be successful.

Santos said in a long X Spaces conversation Friday night that he would not resign, saying, “[I’d] admit [to] everything that’s on that report” by doing so. Yet the liar also predicted that he will be expelled from the House if another expulsion resolution goes to the floor for a vote. “I’ve done the math over and over, and it doesn’t look really good,” he said.

He probably doesn’t even do math.

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Finally, the GOP is starting to get it together: Mike Johnson gets the House gavel

Finally, with three weeks without a Speaker of the House, the GOP finally elected Mike Johnson (R-LA) to hold the gavel. Just the other day, I was starting to write about House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer, having received the nomination among a host of other hopefuls, and just like that, he bowed out of the election.

In the first House floor ballot Wednesday, Johnson defeated Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) who was nominated by his party. The vote tally was 220-209 in which a simple majority was needed for victory.

Finally, someone basically united the Republican conference with its minute House majority where the three prior nominees: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA); House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN); and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to do so.

“A man of deep faith, Mike epitomizes what it means to be a servant leader. A deeply respected constitutional lawyer, Mike has dedicated his life to preserving America’s great principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said in her speech nominating Johnson on Wednesday.

Today is the day that House Republicans will humbly look in our hearts and elect @RepMikeJohnson as Speaker of the People's House.

A man of deep faith, Mike epitomizes what it means to be a servant leader. A deeply respected Constitutional lawyer, Mike has dedicated his life… pic.twitter.com/JJJBGf4dRS

— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik)

Meanwhile, not House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, was dealing with a lot of dust in his eyes.

"Give me liberty of give me mcdeath Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) had been serving as speaker pro tempore during the past few weeks.

Johnson had called for the quick passing of a resolution to condemn Hamas after its barbaric terrorist attacks on Israel, whereas Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for Hamas' nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. [Not as farfetched as you might imagine.]

 Looking ahead to the 2024 appropriations process, Johnson included a provision for August that says, “DO NOT break for district work period unless all 12 appropriations bills have passed the House.” Another listed aim of Johnson’s was to expand the GOP majority with the 2024 elections.

Johnson, 51, is a “dedicated husband and father of four and an attorney who has devoted his life and career to fighting for the fundamental freedoms and traditional values that have always been a priority to the people of Louisiana,” according to his congressional biography page. He had also worked as a  constitutional law attorney a college professor, and a radio talk show host, before joining public office.

Once in Congress, Johnson voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and a healthcare bill that would repeal parts of Obamacare (aka Affordable Care Act).

He also introduced a a border security bill and legislation to make it a crime to transport a minor across state lines to get an abortion without “satisfying parental involvement law.”

The problems within the party aren't new, but they were exacerbated when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a “motion to vacate the chair” in which Speaker McCarthy sat, in early October after the GOP-controlled House passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Gaetz and seven other glory-hogging Republicans joined with Democrats. Yes, they joined Democrats and got some of us to believe they were right to do so. They ouster McCarthy in a simple majority 216-210 vote.

McCarthy and thankfully Gaetz, along with Scalise and Jordan, rallied in support of Johnson in the end. Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race, encouraged members to support Johnson on Wednesday after previously endorsing Jordan for speaker.

Democrats don't like Johnson's being the GOP nominee due to his support of the U.S. Constitution, Old Glory and life.

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