Rank-and-file Republicans in the House are increasingly going public with anger towards their leadership.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly.

Increasingly, they’re ignoring him.

Cracks inside the GOP conference were stark this week as a member of Johnson’s own leadership team openly accused him of lying, rank-and-file Republicans acted unilaterally to force votes and a leadership-backed bill faltered. It’s all underscored by growing worries that the party is on a path towards losing the majority next year.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Johnson told reporters Thursday that he had a “great talk” with Stefanik the night before.

    “I called her and I said, ‘Why wouldn’t you just come to me, you know?’” Johnson said. “So we had some intense fellowship about that.”

    Asked if she had apologized for calling him a liar, Johnson said, “Um, you ask Elise about that.”

    [fellowship intensifies]

    • d00ery@lemmy.world
      3·
      19 hours ago

      I thought fellowship was a very religiously charged word and implied praying together - turns out I’m likely wrong about the prayer.

      Can I just check that the normal well adjusted statesmen and women prayed for guidance, as in they couldn’t just think about the issue, weigh up the pros and cons, evaluate the long and short term consequences, but instead had to appeal to some mystical higher power …!? Wtf is wrong with people.