Mike Johnson Crashes Democrats' Epstein Press Event Outside His Office

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Source: Huff Post

Oct 8, 2025, 01:55 PM EDT | Updated 6 minutes ago


WASHINGTON ― An actual debate broke out in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after two Democratic senators staged a press conference outside the House speaker’s office.

Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) summoned reporters so they could blast House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the government shutdown and for refusing to swear in fellow Arizona Democrat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election last month to fill her late father’s House seat.

Johnson has kept the House out of session since September in an effort to pressure Senate Democrats into voting for a funding bill that passed the House mostly along partisan lines. Senate Democrats have blocked the bill six times.

After they talked for a few minutes about how not seating Grijalva could delay a vote on legislation to force the release of the government’s files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Johnson popped out of his office to confront the Democrats.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-johnson-gallego-kelly_n_68e697e7e4b038265cc90add

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