Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Grijalva, a Democrat, while the government is shut down, leaving the residents of her sprawling southern Arizona district without a vote in Congress — or help back home.
Grijalva would be the decisive 218th member to support a discharge petition and force a House vote on the Epstein files over the objections of Johnson and Trump.
Grijalva has asserted the delay is an attempt to block a vote on the Epstein files. Among her supporters, that’s a given.


Oh yeah, let me just go tell my employer to stop withholding federal taxes and see how that goes.
I mean… You can literally do that at any point. You’d just owe the IRS at the end of the year. Many people prefer this as they consider withholding to be a free loan to the government.
I’m pretty sure you’d still have to make quarterly estimated payments in that case to avoid potential fines.
update your w-4 to “exempt”
And if this movement picks up enough to actually be effective, how do you think it works out?
You can only do that if you had no tax liability the previous year.