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On Monday he criticized the legislation, which would provide an additional $60 billion of military aid for Ukraine, claiming it is "silent on the most pressing issue facing our country" in reference to illegal immigration.

This cynical motherfucker. Says you can’t fund Ukraine until we work on the border. Dems agree. Dems drafts a bipartisan bill that puts hard caps on the border and shuts it down when capacity is reached.

Then this guy tanks the border bill because Trumps wants border chaos so he can run on fixing it. Then he says Congress needs to address the border, after he just tanked a border bill that Congress could’ve easily passed.

Corrupt and selfish people like him are why US government is broken.

Posting on X, in response to comments from Johnson, who he branded an "idiot," Kinzinger said: "Time for a discharge petition, or for three republicans to vote against every rule until he agrees. You will not win unless you fight fire with fire."

That second option is probably a better path. If you recall, the Freedom Caucus pulled that shit on Kevin for a week or so, grinding the House to a halt, until he gave in to whatever tantrum they had at the time.

The House can't do anything until a majority agrees on the rule first. The minority party typically votes against that, just to keep things interesting. So all we would need to do is find three or four Republicans willing to hold their own tantrum about the bill, and then nothing can get done until they get a majority back again.

This usually doesn't happen, but then again the majority party doesn't usually have a margin this small.

Jeffries: There are more than 300 bipartisan votes in the House to pass the National Security bill today. It’s not too much to ask that we get a vote and actually let the House work its will as opposed to allowing Trump to work his will and block our National Security priorities

Let's fucking go.

How this creepy worm got so much power is beyond me.

Mike Johnson discharge would be called johnsonrhea.

Has he already assigned it to committee? A discharge petition is used to extract a bill from being stuck in committee. One of the Speaker's duties, however, is to assign bills to committees in the first place. The easiest way for him to block the bill is to simply never do this. It enters the House, and then it just sits there, going nowhere, forever. Unable to move to step 1.

Mike Johnson would then be what needs to be discharged.

The only thing making this guy less scary than Trump is the fact he's not running for president... For now.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On Tuesday the bill passed the Senate in a 70-29 vote, but it must also be approved by the House before President Joe Biden can sign it into law.

On Monday he criticized the legislation, which would provide an additional $60 billion of military aid for Ukraine, claiming it is "silent on the most pressing issue facing our country" in reference to illegal immigration.

Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Democratic Rep. Ami Bera wrote: "If Speaker Johnson won't bring this critical aid package to the floor, I stand ready to sign a discharge petition to get the job done.

Speaking to CNN on Monday former Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, said: "Our leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said he has not ruled out using a discharge petition, which is a parliamentary maneuver to try and bring a bill to the floor."

A number of pro-Ukraine conservatives have also suggested a discharge petition could be introduced, including Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican House representative and fierce Trump critic.

Posting on X, in response to comments from Johnson, who he branded an "idiot," Kinzinger said: "Time for a discharge petition, or for three republicans to vote against every rule until he agrees.

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Mushroom dicked people worldwide must be ecstatic knowing there are in fact people who will gleefully fellate their weirdly shaped johnson for nothing but headpats and cheeto dust.

Mikey needs a polonium injection