(Trump says he is both the president and Speaker of the House but he is neither. He's a puppet like every other vainglorious tin-pot dictator we put in power across the world to do the bidding of our 'national interests' Each of them thought they were something special, just like Trump does. And each one of them got burned in the end, just like Trump will when he has outlived his usefulness.)
from the New York Times
It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor. Spending legislation is not being considered. Oversight hearings are on hold until further notice.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to put the House on an indefinite hiatus that is now stretching into its second month while the government is shut down is the latest in a series of moves he has made that have diminished the role of Congress and shrunken the speakership at a critical moment.
It’s an approach born of political expedience that could have far-reaching consequences for an institution that has already ceded much of its power to President Trump. And Mr. Johnson, who without the president’s backing wields little influence over his own members, has chosen to make himself subservient to Mr. Trump, a break with many speakers of the past who sought in their own ways to act more as a governing partner with the president than as his underling.
“I’m the speaker and the president,” Mr. Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him.
Mr. Johnson has done little in recent weeks to contest the point...
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