Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sums Up What Her GOP Colleagues Are Good For In 1 Blunt Tweet

The New York Democrat shared a tweet posted by journalist Stephen Neukam, who reported {that a} senior GOP aide had steered Republicans might search to vary the House speaker once more “if we lose the Israel vote after losing Mayorkas impeachment.”

Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “Would certainly take the pressure off them scrambling to find new post offices to rename each week since that’s the only thing they can seem to get the votes for.”

Bills to rename put up workplaces are sometimes very simple to cross, and account for a considerable fraction of the legal guidelines every Congress approves.

The present Congress, led within the House by a deeply divided Republican majority that ousted its personal speaker in October, has confirmed to be the least productive for the reason that Great Depression. It handed simply 21 legal guidelines final 12 months, and struggled to perform bare-minimum duties like retaining the federal government open.

In a shocking defeat on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) push to question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed after some Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it.

Minutes later, in one other setback for Republican leaders, a invoice to offer U.S. help to Israel was defeated.