Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson
Source: NBC News
Dec. 3, 2025, 8:23 PM EST
WASHINGTON Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him including a member of Johnsons own leadership team.
This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that shes pissed that leadership isnt moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, I like Mike. Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Lunas petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.
Asked about Stefaniks broadsides in the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnson shrugged off the complaints and said hes not worried about his standing at all.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-women-are-open-revolt-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna247297
Johnson has created his own "Mojo Dojo Casa House".
Lovie777
(21,335 posts)that has never stopped them before. Ya think they would be more concerned about healthcare for millions in their base.
BumRushDaShow
(164,272 posts)had been whining about getting her provision to "root out" any "weaponization" by the "deep state", included in the NDAA.
Nothing about healthcare or "affordability".
Don't know how long the GOP "Stepford Wives" women will continue to rebel before being reigned in but...
SergeStorms
(19,850 posts)wants the SOH job so bad she can taste it. Good luck. 🤣
IronLionZion
(50,549 posts)and save lots of tax dollars by letting their red state constituents die from lack of healthcare. It's an easy decision for selfish sociopaths.
get the red out
(13,907 posts)Mike Johnson's help meet recently said in an interview "men's brains are like waffles, with "little compartments" that allow them to think about one thing at a time or even nothing at all. In contrast, she described women's brains as being like "spaghetti," in which all thoughts, concerns, and emotionsthe "meatballs, the pasta, the sauce, the oregano"are intertwined, meaning they "can't stop thinking".
Of course her husband stays in the part of the waffle that doesn't think since Trump takes care of that for him.
travelingthrulife
(4,056 posts)cstanleytech
(28,097 posts)Bayard
(28,127 posts)They'll fall back in line soon enough, especially if trump has a little chat with them.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(131,703 posts)mgardener
(2,261 posts)Said anything is because she is running for Gov of NY instead of running for Congress.
She is a moral coward. She never would have challenged him if her Congressional position depended on being compliant.
Icanthinkformyself
(349 posts)crew each other up and spit each other out.