{"id":1028301,"date":"2023-11-20T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1028301"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:58:22","slug":"maga-mike-monday-the-latest-from-trumps-top-minion-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-mike-monday-the-latest-from-trumps-top-minion-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Mike Monday: The Latest from Trump\u2019s Top Minion in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy Monday and welcome to another week of MAGA Mike marching in lockstep with Donald Trump by using the People\u2019s House as their personal stage for Trump\u2019s campaign sequel. Together, they\u2019re tag-teaming to push an extreme, out-of-touch agenda that could strip away Americans\u2019 freedoms, undermine our democracy, and slash Social Security and Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what MAGA Mike has gotten up to as of this Monday, but let\u2019s be clear: If it\u2019s a day ending in \u201cy,\u201d Johnson is hard at work turning the People\u2019s House into an arm of Trump\u2019s presidential campaign instead of delivering on the issues Americans care about.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMAGA Mike Johnson\u2019s speakership has proven that the MAGA House majority dominates the People\u2019s House with Donald Trump calling the shots from the sidelines on how best to use Americans\u2019 hard-earned taxpayer money for his own political gain. Over the past week, Johnson endorsed Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, asked his fellow MAGA minions to push their failed, baseless impeachment inquiry even further, and was called out for his affiliation with an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. Make no mistake: Johnson is Trump\u2019s top MAGA minion in Congress and his actions continue to prove that he\u2019s doing everything in his power to keep that accolade.\u201d
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On the heels of endorsing Donald Trump, Johnson backed House Republicans\u2019 baseless impeachment inquiry against President Biden, reminding everyone this is all a sham designed to appease the MAGA Republicans in the House.<\/strong>
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The Hill<\/a>: \u201cSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stressed his support for an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and his family\u2019s business dealings Wednesday, calling for more interviews with witnesses under oath as the probe reaches \u2018an inflection point.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe signal of support for the inquiry, started by his ousted predecessor Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), follows a report from the Washington Post last week that said the new Speaker had privately signaled there was not yet enough evidence to initiate formal impeachment proceedings \u2014 sparking criticism from the right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting from last week exposed MAGA Mike\u2019s association with a group that has pushed egregious anti-LGBTQ+ and Islamophobic comments. <\/strong>
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Politico<\/a>: \u201cMike Johnson\u2019s resume includes being a board member of a Christian publishing house that called \u2018monkeypox\u2019 a penalty for being gay\u201d

\u201cHouse Speaker Mike Johnson sits on the board of a Christian publishing house that suggested getting \u2018monkeypox\u2019 was \u2018an inevitable and appropriate penalty\u2019 for being gay and that former President Barack Obama was rumored to be the Antichrist because of his \u2018leanings toward Islam.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the last decade, Johnson has been a member of the board of Living Waters Publications, a Christian ministry and publishing house. The speaker has interviewed founder and CEO Ray Comfort on his and his wife\u2019s now-deleted podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year, Comfort narrated a Living Waters video, titled \u2018Monkeypox and God: Is It a \u2018Gay Disease\u2019?\u2019 in which he quoted Biblical scripture saying that those who engaged in homosexual acts would get \u201cin their own bodies the inevitable and appropriate penalty for their wrongdoing.\u201d (The virus was previously known as monkeypox, but last year the World Health Organization changed the name to mpox, saying the term monkeypox could be seen as stigmatizing and racist.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a Living Waters article published in March, Comfort also bemoaned the fact that Christians could no longer call homosexuality \u2018morally wrong.\u2019 \u2018There was a time in America when we could say these things without any real repercussions,\u2019 he noted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is far from the only time Johnson has been exposed for his shameful anti-LGBTQ+ past \u2013 he has a long history of supporting and introducing legislation that would rip away LGBTQ+ rights.<\/strong>
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ABC News<\/a>: \u201cAn ABC News examination of public records, news reports and documents shows the extent to which Johnson dedicated earlier phases of his career to limiting gay rights, including same-sex marriage and health care access, and through anti-gay activism on college campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 2005, the Family Research Council, an influential right-wing lobbying group, honored Johnson for his work defending Louisiana’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s. In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality a \u2018inherently unnatural\u2019 and \u2018dangerous lifestyle\u2019 that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy \u2018the entire democratic system.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd, in another editorial, \u2018Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do,\u2019 he wrote. \u2018This is a free country, but we don\u2019t give special protections for every person\u2019s bizarre choices.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insider<\/a>: \u201cLast October, Johnson led over two dozen of his colleagues in introducing the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bill is essentially the national version of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Law \u2014 dubbed \u2018Don’t Say Gay\u2019 by critics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat’s led the Human Rights Campaign to condemn the bill as the \u2018latest cruel attempt to stigmatize and marginalize the community.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLIP-FLOP: Years after criticizing him, MAGA Mike is all-in on Donald Trump\u2019s extreme and dangerous vision for America.\u00a0<\/strong>

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cAfter Trump’s ‘vermin’ rhetoric draws comparisons to Hitler, Speaker Johnson endorses him?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Johnson<\/a>: \u201cI’m all in for President Trump. I expect he’ll be our nominee \u2026 we have to make Biden a one-term president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cJohnson Said in 2015 Trump Was Unfit and Could Be \u2018Dangerous\u2019 as President\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Johnson<\/a>: \u201cThe thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House. \u2026 I am afraid he would break more things than he fixes. He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief. \u2026 I just don\u2019t think he has the demeanor to be President.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as MAGA Mike Johnson continues to be Trump\u2019s top minion in Congress, here\u2019s your reminder that he\u2019s in lockstep with Trump about pushing an extreme, anti-freedom agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cIn Congress, Mr. Johnson has voted for a national abortion ban and co-sponsored a 20-week abortion ban, earning him an A-plus rating from the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.<\/strong> After the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in June last year, he celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common Dreams<\/a>: \u201cDuring his tenure as chair of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) between 2019 and 2021, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) helped craft budget resolutions that called for roughly $2 trillion in Medicare cuts, $3 trillion in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts, and $750 billion in Social Security Cuts,<\/strong> noted Bobby Kogan of the Center for American Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201c\u2018The new speaker has made it clear he\u2019s not a friend to seniors, Social Security or Medicare,\u2019 <\/strong>said Max Richtman, CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. \u2018His answer to Social Security\u2019s long-range solvency is cutting benefits.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cFor his part, Johnson’s effort to help overturn the election is well documented. A constitutional lawyer by trade, Johnson wrote the supporting brief on behalf of House Republicans asking the Supreme Court to block the Electoral College certification in certain key states Joe Biden won. <\/strong>The court rejected the case. Johnson also voted against certifying the 2020 election in the House.\u201d

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