{"id":7983,"date":"2025-04-04T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-trump-backs-me-on-proxy-voting-for-new-parents\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:50:22","slug":"johnson-trump-backs-me-on-proxy-voting-for-new-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-trump-backs-me-on-proxy-voting-for-new-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: Trump backs me on proxy voting for new parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1908172427877867800\" target=\"_blank\">backs his effort to block proxy voting<\/a> for new parents, a day after the president scrambled Johnson&#8217;s plans and endorsed a move to allow it.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson thanked Trump in the X post for a recent phone call, in which he attributed Trump as saying: \u201cMike, you have my proxy on proxy voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/mike-johnson-proxy-voting-gop-agenda-00267900\" target=\"_blank\">serious bind on the matter<\/a>, with the House floor effectively frozen until he can secure an agreement. Trump added a new wrinkle Thursday by telling reporters he didn&#8217;t see what was so &#8220;controversial&#8221; about Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna&#8217;s push to allow new parents to vote by proxy.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders hope Trump&#8217;s blessing of Johnson&#8217;s position will persuade Luna to back off her plans to force a floor vote on the plan next week. Hard-liners have threatened to block any floor action until Luna&#8217;s proxy vote push is snuffed out.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Trump didn&#8217;t post any statement himself after saying Thursday that women having a baby should be able to vote by proxy. Luna told reporters several days ago that she didn&#8217;t want to involve Trump, but if he got involved, she was confident he would be supportive of her pro-woman, pro-family effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Donald Trump backs his effort to block proxy voting for new parents, a day after the president scrambled Johnson&#8217;s plans and endorsed a move to allow it. Johnson thanked Trump in the X post for a recent phone call, in which he attributed Trump as saying: \u201cMike, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}