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.
I’d be curious to see what happens if House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries or some other officer of the House swears her in. Are they going to refuse to recognize her?
Not that it matters too much, they’re in a “district work period” until Nov 2nd.