Athina Lawson
@athina_lawson
Press Secretary for @SpeakerJohnson | Former: @HouseAppropsGOP, @plus_comms
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06-09-2016 15:30:08
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WATCH: Speaker Mike Johnson: 'No American of any color or creed should ever have to live under those kinds of threats. That is not who we are in this country.'
I am pleased to announce with Leader McConnell that Senator Katie Boyd Britt will be delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union address. The American people will tune in as the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate turns the page on the oldest President in…
.President Biden wanted to surprise us and spend $30 BILLION, endangering the future of the Pell Grant and threatening low-income students’ education access.
I’m pleased @speakerjohnson worked all day with us on a fix. He stopped new outrageous spending while also protecting students &…
This is already aging well…
Speaker Mike Johnson Steve Scalise Tom Emmer Elise Stefanik:
“A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.”
.Speaker Mike Johnson wipes a tear from his eye as he listens to Andrea Bocelli sing during the National Prayer Breakfast with President Biden & Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill.
For news outlets just starting to cover the metastasizing migration disaster, Speaker Mike Johnson’s floor speech this morning was a fact-filled tour de force on how Biden deliberately dismantled every restraint on migration—inviting the “surge to the border” he promised.
Per Glenn Kessler Fact Check:
“House Republicans once may have backed a tough budget plan but they never cast a vote that specified they would cut 2,000 Border Patrol agents; instead, they have voted to increase the total by nearly 2,000.”
White House gets 🤥🤥🤥
Proud to hear Secretary Pompeo say what I've known for a long time: that Greece is a pillar for stability & prosperity in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Secretary's deep concern over Turkey's intransigence, & U.S. actions to bolster Greece, are reshaping the region in a meaningful way.