Tag: Enraging

As Speaker, Johnson Advances What He Once Opposed, Enraging the Right

As a low-profile, rank-and-file congressman representing his deeply red district, Rep. Mike Johnson took the positions of a hard-liner. He repeatedly voted down efforts to send aid to Ukraine, citing insufficient oversight of where the money would go. He opposed the stopgap funding bill that then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy put on the House floor in efforts […]