Rand Paul slams Mike Johnson for “ineffective leadership”

During an interview on Fox News, Paul told host Maria Bartiromo that "Johnson was incredibly wrong" to vote with the Democrats to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Paul said Johnson was "completely changed" after becoming Speaker. Like as though he is being blackmailed? As MTG once implied. :P

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Despite a public vote of confidence from former President Donald Trump, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has come out against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Appearing on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, the Kentucky Republican torched Johnson for casting the decisive vote to defeat an amendment in the recently-passed FISA reauthorization — which would have required the government to obtain a warrant to obtain data of people caught up in foreign surveillance.

“Speaker Johnson was incredibly wrong,” Paul said. “He broke the tie. He voted with the Democrats. Here we have the leader of the Republicans in the House votes with the Democrats against a warrant requirement. We also have Speaker Johnson voting for the spending package once again with a majority of the Democrats. As I see it now, I’m not so sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge.”

Paul’s comments come two days after Johnson got the public backing of Trump during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

“I think he’s doing a very good job,” Trump said. “He’s doing about as good as you’re going to do.”

But Paul thinks Johnson could be doing a lot more.

“Johnson hasn’t held his ground,” Paul said. “He has power. He has a majority use the power of the purse. Speaker Johnson, do something to make us think you are different than the Democrats. But so far I don’t see a lot of difference.”

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