“I don’t know why it’s controversial,” Trump told reporters of a Republican-led effort to allow proxy voting for new parents.
It’s unclear how long the game of chicken between Johnson and Luna might last. Tom Williams/AP
As Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting tooth and nail to kill a Republican-led petition to allow new parents to vote by proxy, President Donald Trump endorsed the effort.
“I don’t know why it’s controversial,” Trump told reporters.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has led an insurgent discharge petition — alongside Republican Rep. Mike Lawler and Democratic Reps. Brittany Pettersen and Sara Jacobs — to force a vote on allowing 12 weeks of remote voting for new parents in the House.
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