Former president Donald Trump has used his perch as the GOP frontrunner to bend Congress to his political whims.
House Speaker Mike Johnson departs a Republican conference meeting in D.C. on Tuesday. Moments before pandemonium broke out on the House floor on Tuesday evening, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer approached Rep. Ken Buck , who had assumed a leisurely slouch in a rickety wooden chair in the back of the House chamber, for what appeared to be a quick chat.
“It’s been a total disaster,” Sen. Josh Hawley declared to reporters about how GOP leaders handled the border bill. “Why would voters look at what goes on over here, this circus, and say we want more of this? … I don’t think the last three months could have been handled any worse than it has been handled from a leadership perspective.”
The dual implosions served a blow to McConnell’s reputation as a canny political operator and Johnson’s bid to establish himself as a credible and authoritative leader.Johnson addressed his decision to bring the impeachment vote to the floor in a news conference Wednesday morning, saying that “sometimes when you’re counting votes and people show up when they’re not expected to be in the building, it changes the equation.
A senior leadership aide noted that Emmer didn’t want to get into a discussion of the whip count in front of a large group of members whom he feared would leak the private conversation. But some lawmakers privately wondered why Johnson had not realized that several Republicans — as many as five at the time — were weighing how to vote, and why he still insisted on rushing the vote.
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