The House speaker doesn’t want Republicans to be around when the deadline comes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is conveniently sending Congress home the day before the Justice Department is supposed to release the Epstein files in full. The announcement came Wednesday night.
This looks like yet another instance of Johnson doing every little thing he can either to delay the release of the files or to make it so that his fellow GOPers don’t have to be in town to answer to their complicity in this monthslong campaign to avoid their release—as he did by egregiously delaying the swearing-in of Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva for weeks.
“Like I said: view all political developments for the rest of the week in light of the fact that the Epstein Files are supposed to be released on Friday,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Wednesday evening on X. “House Republicans just suddenly canceled Congressional session Friday and are sending everyone home Thursday evening.”
Nothing spells guilt like…
Are there any conservatives out there that can tell us why you worship a pedophile?
Wow, I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve come to the end of my attention span. I guess there was never anything to see there after all, right?
This is fascism. They’ll always win.
Fascism wins until good men go to war. Then they fold
If by “fold” you mean “beaten into submission,” then, yeah, I’d have to agree with you.
Tomato tamahto, potato patahto
He has to be a pedo.
take that leap of faith and use the is word
at this point, we need to form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation. seriously!
This guy is a one-trick pony.
Have to oath in a Democrat who will trigger a vote his master doesn’t like? Send everyone home!
Files that incriminates his master are being released? Send everyone home!
This tactic is getting old already.
I see it as them showing their hand. They know they cant take the heat, so they run. Pussies.
Republicans complain that government is ineffective and corrupt, then they get elected and prove it.
Members of your own party trying to force a vote to extend Obamacare subsidies? Send 'em home!
You forgot about his other trick: I haven’t heard about that or I haven’t had time to read that.
Are we gonna see the naughty list soon?
He’s making his list, redacting it twice, you’ll never find out who’s naughty or nice.
Unless they are political enemies.
They’re checking it twice.
I wish I got so many days off…
Dems should release more pics right when they come back.
He sent everyone home because of the discharge petition for ACA. Epstein was coming anyway, this is about ripping healthcare away from millions. Which in Mike’s own words…“It’s only 7% of the country”
Is the idea that he knows the justice dept is going to delay, and if the house isn’t in session, they can’t do anything?
I wonder if the Republican voters recognize this is literally protecting pedophiles. There’s no way around it.
Yeah, this has got to be for a reason other than no soundbites, right?
Like rats abandoning a sinking ship.
Grindr use is going to spike.
I’m sure he’s going to run home to Louisiana and explain why he’s blocking ACA subsidies
