Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s future status as Speaker of the House is fragile, as a government funding bill tied to MAGA-backed legislation to combat the already illegal and “vanishingly rare” phenomenon of non-citizen voting is expected to fail on Wednesday.
Given the opposition of several Republicans in the House of Representatives and the staunch opposition of the Democratic Senate to the controversial legislative initiative related to the budget law, Johnson’s efforts to get the package passed appear to be in vain.
While the Speaker of the House of Representatives has to endure this debacle over government funding and face tough criticism According to NOTUS, Johnson’s tenure as Speaker of the House is uncertain, “assuming Republicans retain their majority and Johnson even seeks re-election.”
According to a report in NOTUS On Wednesday, Rep. Ralph Norman said Republican lawmakers hoping to become speaker are “pushing themselves into positions.”
“There are a lot of members who are frustrated,” Rep. Greg Steube told NOTUS last week when Mike Johnson pulled the package from the House of Representatives when it became clear that the votes simply weren’t there. “Depending on what the majority looks like in January or after November, I think it’s certainly going to be a challenge for him to get 218 votes through.”
Representative Clay Higgins, who is “sympathetic to Johnson’s efforts” and authored the government funding and non-citizen voting bill, waxed poetic about the package and Johnson’s predicament: “The bottom line is that the quicksand of the conference may not have created the beach we want. … This city is trying to eat this man alive.”
An anonymous MP put it more bluntly: “I think he’s finished.”
