Democratic House Minority Leader Jeffires is bringing his party people back as of Tuesday…..
Republican House members CAN READ….
Polls have Trump and Republican’s holding the blame for the escalating Govt. Shutdown media and actions…
Those House members couldn’t enjoy Town Hall meeting BEFORE all of this….
Now?
Democrats have surprised everyone by holding firm and letting the blame KEEP coming down on the other side….
House Speaker Johnson might be afraid of Trump’s phone calls….
THAT isn’t the other party members concern it appears…..
And being home in the district does NOT look good when peopole are suffering and looking for answers…..
House GOP leaders are facing increasing pressure to bring the chamber back to Washington amid a shutdown fight with no end in sight.
A growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing frustrations with their leadership for prolonging the House recess, warning that the optics surrounding that inactivity could backfire on the party to the benefit of Democrats.
The rumbling is creating a headache for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who have made canceling votes a central part of the Republicans’ shutdown strategy. In doing so, they’re betting that an empty House will pile pressure on Senate Democrats to drop their opposition to a GOP spending bill and help reopen the government.
But as the shutdown drags on, neither side has given an inch, causing federal workers to receive diminished paychecks on Friday and threatening a similar pay squeeze on military personnel, who are at risk of missing their first scheduled paycheck next Wednesday.
Those pressure points have only amplified the calls from within the GOP conference for Johnson to reconvene the chamber, if only to move legislation to ensure the troops are compensated….
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said this week that Johnson should bring the House back to Washington “for many reasons.” But the Georgia firebrand pointed specifically to the issue of health care premiums, which are expected to skyrocket at the end of the year, when enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are scheduled to expire. Greene is the rare Republican urging GOP leaders to address the issue immediately to prevent patients from “just getting destroyed.”
“Any serious Speaker of the House is going to build consensus within his conference behind a plan,” Greene told CNN. “It’s not something secret that gets worked on in a committee.”…
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, had forecast those misgivings in September, on the last day the House was in session before the shutdown.
“I hope we’ll come back,” Cole said at the time. “Our leaders have to make that decision, but I intend to be back here.”
“I don’t think it’s a good look to be home when the government shuts down.”…
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