Mike Johnson: Dem Rep-Elect Grijalva Not Getting Sworn in ‘Has Nothing To Do with Epstein’

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JOHNSON: “I say, bless her heart, she’s a representative-elect. She doesn’t know how it works around here. We’re going to give her the oath of office as soon as we get back to regular session, as soon as Chuck Schumer and the Democrats vote to reopen the government. We’ve got a lot to do here. They’re the ones holding it up. What Rep. Grijalva doesn’t understand is that there’s a certain tradition and process that we engage in here to administer the oath. My colleague, Representative Julia Letlow from Louisiana, was elected in a special election under very similar circumstances, and Nancy Pelosi was speaker at the time. She took 25 days to administer the oath to Julia Letlow. Nobody threw a fit. Nobody, you know, engaged in a publicity stunt because Nancy Pelosi was doing that on the legislative calendar. I’m doing exactly the same thing. It has nothing to do with Epstein. That’s absurd. It’s a moot point. The House Oversight Committee is digging into the Epstein files and releasing the documents almost in real time, 34,000 documents so far. You got some of the biggest bulldogs in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, who are dialed in on that. And that work is going on around the clock even while Congress is closed, the government is shut down because of Chuck Schumer’s antics.”