House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on April 4 that President Donald Trump supports him when it comes to voting by proxy in the House.
“Thank you, [Donald Trump] for your leadership: ‘Mike, you have my proxy on proxy voting.’ America is grateful to have a President who appreciates and understands the complexity of legislative branch issues and governing with a razor-thin House majority. Democrats tried proxy voting before and it was terribly abused. We cannot open that Pandora’s box again,” Johnson wrote in a post on social media platform X.
Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) have led the charge to allow proxy voting for members of the House who are soon having or have just had a baby….