Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, announced that he will not vote for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson To retain the position of speaker next year.
“He doesn't get my vote,” Massey told CNN's Manu Raju. Asked if he would change his mind, Massey said it would take a “Christmas miracle.”
Earlier this year Diamond support Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene continued to push for Johnson's removal as speaker, but a large majority of members in both parties ultimately voted to increase the removal effort.
“It's a new model in Congress,” Massie said on Twitter at the time. “Nancy Pelosi and most Republicans voted to keep one-party Speaker Mike Johnson.”
This week, Johnson called for more than 1,500 pages to be written Government spending Measures This would have avoided the looming possibility of a partial government shutdown.
During an interview Wednesday on “Fox & Friends” Johnson said That spending measure would advance the government funding issue until March when Republicans would control Congress and the White House, enabling the GOP to “decide on 2025 spending.”
The measure also included funding for disaster relief as well as farmer-related aid.
“Disaster aid and farm aid is not 'pork'. It's called governance. It's what we were all elected to do,” Rep. Greg Murphy, R-R-N.D., declared in an
Left: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is seen outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024; Right: House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., after the Republican Convention meeting on December 17, 2024. (Left: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Right: ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)
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President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance also participated. In a statement, they called for the passage of “a simplified spending bill that does not give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.”
“Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is through a stopgap funding bill without Democratic giveaways coupled with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is the answer.” They said in the statement: “Betrayal of our country.”
Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, speaks at a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at McDivot's Indoor Sports Pub on January 7, 2024, in Grimes, Iowa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Massey taunted Johnson this week by sharing an AI-generated image that depicts the speaker holding a hose while a house burns in the background.
He shared the photo after declaring in a tweet that “spending US foreign aid is like watering the neighbor's garden while your house burns down.”
