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

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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    14·
    2 days ago

    I mean… You can literally do that at any point. You’d just owe the IRS at the end of the year. Many people prefer this as they consider withholding to be a free loan to the government.

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure you’d still have to make quarterly estimated payments in that case to avoid potential fines.