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BumRushDaShow

(164,233 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 07:42 AM 14 hrs ago

Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson

Source: NBC News

Dec. 3, 2025, 8:23 PM EST


WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him — including a member of Johnson’s own leadership team.

This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.

Asked about Stefanik’s broadsides in the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnson shrugged off the complaints and said he’s “not worried” about his standing “at all.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-women-are-open-revolt-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna247297



Johnson has created his own "Mojo Dojo Casa House".
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Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
Stock trading ban?................... Lovie777 14 hrs ago #1
And Stefanik BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago #3
Stefanik..... SergeStorms 9 hrs ago #6
They get plenty of money from stock trading with insider knowledge IronLionZion 12 hrs ago #4
Is this just "spaghetti brain"? get the red out 13 hrs ago #2
Stefanie complaining about a GOP House member lying. 😜 travelingthrulife 12 hrs ago #5
Yet they still fall in line 99% of them time. cstanleytech 9 hrs ago #7
In revolt, as opposed to just being revolting Bayard 8 hrs ago #8
What does his lard and savior Donny have to say? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago #9
The only reason Elise Stefanik mgardener 5 hrs ago #10
I hope they Icanthinkformyself 2 hrs ago #11

Lovie777

(21,329 posts)
1. Stock trading ban?...................
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:01 AM
14 hrs ago

that has never stopped them before. Ya think they would be more concerned about healthcare for millions in their base.

BumRushDaShow

(164,233 posts)
3. And Stefanik
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:46 AM
13 hrs ago

had been whining about getting her provision to "root out" any "weaponization" by the "deep state", included in the NDAA.

Nothing about healthcare or "affordability".

Don't know how long the GOP "Stepford Wives" women will continue to rebel before being reigned in but...

IronLionZion

(50,539 posts)
4. They get plenty of money from stock trading with insider knowledge
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:39 AM
12 hrs ago

and save lots of tax dollars by letting their red state constituents die from lack of healthcare. It's an easy decision for selfish sociopaths.

get the red out

(13,907 posts)
2. Is this just "spaghetti brain"?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:33 AM
13 hrs ago

Mike Johnson's help meet recently said in an interview "men's brains are like waffles, with "little compartments" that allow them to think about one thing at a time or even nothing at all. In contrast, she described women's brains as being like "spaghetti," in which all thoughts, concerns, and emotions—the "meatballs, the pasta, the sauce, the oregano"—are intertwined, meaning they "can't stop thinking".

Of course her husband stays in the part of the waffle that doesn't think since Trump takes care of that for him.

Bayard

(28,102 posts)
8. In revolt, as opposed to just being revolting
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:49 PM
8 hrs ago

They'll fall back in line soon enough, especially if trump has a little chat with them.

mgardener

(2,260 posts)
10. The only reason Elise Stefanik
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:18 PM
5 hrs ago

Said anything is because she is running for Gov of NY instead of running for Congress.

She is a moral coward. She never would have challenged him if her Congressional position depended on being compliant.

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