Punchbowl News: “There’s plenty of legitimate criticism of Johnson from members of his own leadership. The Louisiana Republican is slow to make decisions, they assert. “Johnson’s predictable inability to break away from the spending deal cut by his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, which is a real bipartisan compromise between the White House and Capitol Hill. Johnson became speaker 10 months into the Congress, limiting his leeway to change the trajectory of this high-stakes debate in any meaningful way.”2. “Hardline conservatives’ all-or-nothing attitude has plunged the House Republicans into a dysfunctional majority.“The Hill: Hakeem Jeffries slams “do-nothing” Republicans over their “chaos and dysfunction and extremism.”

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2024 10:53 UTC