Behind Mike Johnson’s Dysfunctional Majority

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. He’s preoccupied with leaks. He has no plan on how to deal with getting new U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel or Taiwan, some of this country’s most important allies.”

“But what is happening today on the House floor is the byproduct of two distinct dynamics.”

1. “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.”