{"id":13992,"date":"2024-01-13T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/johnson-caught-between-warring-house-gop-factions-drifting-toward-mob-rule\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:54:21","slug":"johnson-caught-between-warring-house-gop-factions-drifting-toward-mob-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/johnson-caught-between-warring-house-gop-factions-drifting-toward-mob-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson caught between warring House GOP factions: \u2018Drifting toward mob rule\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is finding himself in the crossfire of feuding House GOP factions, with Republican lawmakers at odds over a path forward on government spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I would say the regular order crowd, people who don\u2019t like drama and don\u2019t like dumpster fires, are\u00a0concerned that maybe we\u2019re drifting toward a little bit more mob rule,\u2019 one GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital. \u2018Their temperatures are getting up pretty high\u2026.I would say Mike\u2019s got to be concerned with that crowd as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tensions have erupted in the House of Representatives already, less than halfway through the first month of 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A group of 12 conservatives staged a protest vote on Wednesday that tanked a normally sleepy procedural measure in a pointed shot at Johnson over his deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., aimed at avoiding a government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those GOP hardliners have since been pressuring Johnson to go back on the agreement, a move that has angered both moderate Republicans and rank-and-file conservatives.<\/p>\n

\u2018If all you\u2019re here to do is rant and rave and scream, why\u2019d you come?\u2019 conservative Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital of that group. \u2018I don\u2019t scream if I\u2019m in the operating room and don\u2019t have the right equipment, I make it work.\u2019<\/p>\n

One of the 12 who lodged the protest vote, Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital on Thursday that Johnson was considering dropping the Schumer deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018[We\u2019re\u2019] working on alternate plans and Johnson listened to all sides. He did not commit, but he knows the crisis is border security, that has to be addressed,\u2019 Norman said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., another one of the rebels, emerged from a meeting with Johnson on Friday morning and said, \u2018I don\u2019t think there is a budget agreement yet.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, Johnson himself touted the bipartisan deal later on Friday morning and said it remains in place.<\/p>\n

\u2018I have spoken and received feedback this week from members all across the Republican Conference. That\u2019s a very important part of this,\u2019 he said. \u2018Our topline agreement remains. We are getting our next steps together, and we are working towards a robust appropriations process.\u2019<\/p>\n

Freedom Caucus member Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told reporters in response, \u2018I think that\u2019s a bad move. I think it\u2019s a bad deal.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, rank-and-file members are pushing Johnson to keep holding firm against the pressure.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s got to be careful who he\u2019s listening to because, you know, it impacts people like me that are in districts that are watching and that are \u2013 listen, I represent a purple district and a tough seat,\u2019 Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kiggans told Fox News Digital that she is concerned about how the further cuts being pushed by hardliners would impact her military-heavy district.<\/p>\n

\u2018They elected a Republican majority, so we can get things done, and we\u2019re not, and it\u2019s frustrating to me,\u2019 Kiggans said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another moderate, Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., said, \u2018My recommendation to him is, stick to what you know is right\u2026We know that we are working with a Democrat Senate and a very out-of-touch White House, and this is what we can negotiate, the best deal that we could come up with \u2013 even slightly more savings than what was negotiated before.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, called on Johnson to be more decisive, but he insisted the issue began in early October when eight House Republicans voted to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.<\/p>\n

\u2018You\u2019ve just got to make a decision and go with it. That\u2019s what a leader does, right? And that\u2019s not what we\u2019re seeing right now, but I want to make something clear,\u2019 Miller said.<\/p>\n

\u2018We lost 10 weeks of Congress. How? Because Matt Gaetz and eight of the biggest RINOs in the Republican Conference voted with 213 Democrats\u2026If they actually cared about the debt they would stop lying to the American people, because we\u2019ve never lowered our national debt by cutting discretionary spending.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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