VoteVets Slams GOP Vote To Make Mike Johnson Speaker

“That the man who is two heartbeats away from the Oval Office helped engineer the insurrection, and coup against the President-elect, is a crisis and an insult to what our Troops fought and died to protect.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Below is the statement of Mary Kaszynski, Director of Government Relations for VoteVets, on Mike Johnson being elected Speaker of the House by the Republican Conference: 

“There is a lot to dislike about Mike Johnson’s policy positions – from voting against Veteran victims of toxic burn pits to his pro-Putin vote against Ukraine. None of that is as shocking as his attempts to end our democracy and Constitutional republic. That the man who is two heartbeats away from the Oval Office helped engineer the insurrection, and coup against the President-elect, is a crisis and an insult to what our Troops fought and died to protect.”