Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Grijalva, a Democrat, while the government is shut down, leaving the residents of her sprawling southern Arizona district without a vote in Congress — or help back home.

Grijalva would be the decisive 218th member to support a discharge petition and force a House vote on the Epstein files over the objections of Johnson and Trump.

Grijalva has asserted the delay is an attempt to block a vote on the Epstein files. Among her supporters, that’s a given.

  • Prox@lemmy.world
    171·
    2 days ago

    Honest question here: does this actually matter given that the House has been on recess for like a month? Like, could she do anything if she were sworn in during this time?

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      36·
      2 days ago
      • according to posts here she is not allowed to move into her office or access government data, so she can’t help constituents nor start getting up to speed.
      • there’s an argument for whether they should be on recess. They could be trying to get things done.
      • looking at published calendars from the before times, the House is supposed to be in session.