Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., came out in opposition to the Senate deal on DHS on Friday, saying he wouldn’t put the bill on the floor. Many House Republicans privately think he’s making a mistake.

After a week of false starts toward ending the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered the biggest setback yet on Friday, telling his conference that he wouldn’t bring the Senate deal, passed just hours earlier with unanimous support, to the House floor.

Behind closed doors, many House Republicans are already questioning the speaker’s decision.

On a GOP members-only conference call on Friday, Johnson came out in opposition to the Senate bill.

“We are not gonna eat the crap sandwich the Senate sent us,” Johnson told House Republicans, according to a source on the line.

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    Republican pussies could literally remove his ass from the speakership and have Trump impeached and removed from office lickity split, but they would rather privately grumble anonymously until they retire.

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      Personally, I think the GOP is run entirely by a small cabal that dictates everything. If you go far enough in that org, someone has something on you to make you dance.

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      Well, they make a lot of money through corruption. So they have to put their ethics on the back burner sometimes. You have to understand that - they’re just trying to line their pockets as much as possible. Where would we end up if limits were placed on greed? Unthinkable!