Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson erupted after failing to block a bipartisan proxy voting bill allowing parental leave for lawmakers.

Despite once voting by proxy himself, Johnson called it “unconstitutional,” revealing GOP resistance to family-friendly policies.

Critics say this aligns with Trump-era efforts to push women out of public life, consistent with Project 2025’s goal of restoring “traditional families.”

Johnson’s move, including canceling House activity, exposed the contradiction in the GOP’s “pro-family” stance and highlighted deeper hostility to workplace flexibility and women’s equality.

  • yoshman@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    These “Christians” would already have shipped Jesus to gitmo.

    Something something bootstraps.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      Aside from a funeral and a couple of weddings, I haven’t set foot in a church since I moved out on my own. However, I would absolutely sit down for a service where the preacher read passages from the New Testament with the moral of the sermon being “Are we the baddies?”

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      They would have complained about Jesus feeding the masses because “it’s just going to make them lazy”.