According to Thomas Massie, during the August recess, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) plan to call the House and Senate into session every four or five days to keep Trump from making recess appointments.
What party are they with again?
Johnson recently criticized Massie for not supporting the Big, Beautiful. How ironic.
Meanwhile, 14 of 15 district judges and 50 judicial nominees in total will not be dealt with. President Trump has over 260 nominees NOT YET CONFIRMED by the Senate. This is out of 356 nominees.
When asked about it, Rep. Massie’s spokesperson said it’s just a statement of fact.
They do it so they can cut deals.
Massie also responded on X.
.@RepGregMurphy, if I misrepresented why GOP leadership holds pro-forma sessions, please elaborate.
The American people deserve to know that these gavel-in/gavel-out sessions of Congress are convened to prevent President Trump from ever making recess appointments. https://t.co/fNfb3MBv1S
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 26, 2025
I guess they don’t want to be re-elected.
During August recess, Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune plan to call the House and Senate into session every four or five days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess appointments. Here was today’s House “pro-forma” session: pic.twitter.com/sK1tZTCdYQ
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 25, 2025
I see some people are excited @realDonaldTrump can make recess appointments to fill out his staff now that Congress has recessed for August.
Bad news: @SpeakerJohnson and Leader Thune plan to convene-and-adjourn every 4 or 5 days to block Trump from making those appointments.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 24, 2025
Sen. Mike Lee is fighting for us.
If the Senate doesn’t cancel its August vacation, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Ron Johnson and others are calling on Leader Thune to call an actual recess so President Trump can begin making recess appointments to clear the massive backlog of nominees
Agreed. pic.twitter.com/3bkJVnic7Q
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 24, 2025
Every Repub. speaker in my memory seems to have been quickly coopted by the Dims. What’s going on with that? Are they bribed? blackmailed? What?
I’ve said before Johnson is a pansy afraid of Democrats and Mitch’s pick John Thune has TDS and appears to work with Trump on the surface but undermines Trump every chance he gets.
Massie’s opposition to that huge bill was such a minor thing, but the RINOs, RINO media, and gullible followers whined about it. This site behaved similarly, so did the commenters. What Thune and Johnson are doing is a repeat of the Mitch-Ryan days. They are not on our side, and they will not be on our side. This blocking of… Read more »
90% of congress needs to be primaried. Johnson and Thune for certain, as they are not MAGA conservatives and therefore not leadership material.
They are always undercutting the President whenever they can. Thune and Johnson are RINO’s or worse. Seems they stand up for what makes them look good, but are really in it for themselves! I am not a fan of Massie, but in this case I’m glad he put it out there.
Never did trust Johnson. He has history. Btw, is there ANY way X information can be summarized to prevent having to hop, skip and jump? Often people (like me – lol ) get distracted with other posts and lose some of the main message of the article.
Try to stay focused…the liars, which includes the ‘legacy’ media, are STILL functioning. When caught in the lie you will notice that they NEVER come ‘clean’, but muddy the waters with another BRAZEN LIE…