Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson boldly called for Americans to stage a general strike
during his speech at his city’s
‘No Kings’ rally on Saturday.
Summoning people of all backgrounds to unite and take a stand against
Donald Trump’s “tyranny,”
the “ultra-wealthy”
and corporate greed,
Johnson said,
“We are going to make them pay their fair share in taxes to fund our school, to fund jobs, to fund healthcare, to fund transportation"
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Ups The Ante As He Calls For A General Strike (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-general-strike_n_68f5168fe4b02184e56e6a11
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p62#a251019p62
"Two Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday added their names to a discharge petition that will now force a vote on legislation to restore the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of federal workers targeted by GOP President Donald Trump."
'Speaker Johnson has run out of excuses': Major org cheers as Republicans break with Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2674303971/
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation,
decrying the peaceful demonstrations as evidence of
“a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”
https://www.politico.co…
Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Adelina Grivalja for this long
—much less communicate with those on the other side of the aisle
—is a failure of leadership and a stunning betrayal of basic democratic principles
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson
“you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing.
If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed,
and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
-- John Pfaff
https://
Deciding when to recess the House to "district work periods" isn't some inherent or longstanding power of the Speaker.
It was only added to the rules for the first time in this Congress.
Otherwise this would have required the full House to vote on it, which could have been defeated.
As expected, in order to avoid a vote on extension of the ACA,
Mike Johnson is gaveling the House into recess.