Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday continued to warn his fellow Republicans that they will lose their House majority in 2026 if House Speaker Mike Johnson retains his speakership on Friday.
The comment comes after Massie, a staunch Johnson critic, on Monday compared the speaker to a “potato,” seeming to suggest in a social media post that he and President Joe Biden are potatoes because they have not accomplish anything, which their respective parties did not realize until it was too late.
Some of the House Republican Conference’s more conservative members are at odds with Johnson for having first tried to pass a funding measure earlier this month to avoid a government shutdown that included lots of spending – including pay raises for members of Congress. He eventually passed a slimmed down, stop-gap measure but it did not including abolishing the federal debt ceiling, as President-elect Donald Trump had requested.
The criticism comes amid former House Speaker Newt Gingrich arguing Republicans who opposed Johnson are siding with Democrats and his challenge for them to explain their end game since they do not have a speaker candidate who could be elected instead.
“Challenge accepted,” Massie replied in a post on X. “What do we hope to gain? A competent Speaker who has the will and the ability to capitalize on this once in a decade opportunity. Johnson is not up for this task. […]
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