'What's going on with this place?': GOP faces a House in chaos

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Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2025, 7:01 AM ET


House Speaker Mike Johnson already had one of the toughest jobs in Washington: controlling an unruly GOP conference, with its razor-thin majority on the line next November.

Now, with tensions sharply rising inside the Capitol over party infighting and a new focus on partisan floor attacks, it’s about to get worse.

When the House returns from its Thanksgiving recess, the GOP speaker will face a chamber in chaos. He and his team have struggled to maintain control of the floor in recent weeks, as made clear by the recent unsanctioned push from rank-and-file members to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. But that’s not the end of it: Members of both parties are increasingly feeling emboldened to buck party leadership, forcing votes on personal priorities, including a spate of recent votes to punish fellow lawmakers.

“I would like us to get back to normal Congress,” Johnson said recently as he left the Capitol for Thanksgiving, acknowledging the censure wars that have roiled the chamber.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/politics/house-republican-chaos-congress

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The GOP thrives on manufacturing chaos and your media outlets, presence on social media and podcasts, fuels it. Don't go whining about the mess you all made.

[snot]

1. Civilization is fragile,

as is democracy.

[Trueblue Texan]

10. Civilization requires some civility...

Something right-wing thugs know little about.

[Bluetus]

2. WTF, CNN? Johnson CREATED this problem

CNN plays it as if Johnson inherited a hopeless situation. The problems are entirely of his own making and a direct result of Johnson's decision to attach himself to Trump's ass.

Notice that Thune chose a different path and it is going a lot better for him.

[SSJVegeta]

3. "Normal congress" means personally threatening your members to get in line with morally atrocious agendas?

K bro

😒 🤔

[mdbl]

4. There has been nothing normal about this congress.

[ancianita]

5. No matter how CNN puts it, they all gotta go home for the holidays and face up to those low poll numbers.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Not if they hide the entire time.

Say, a nice trip overseas for the holidays while their constituents are starving?

Par for the course the course with these animals.

[ancianita]

12. Of course they can run overseas but they can't hide; constituents know where they live.

Protesting on a public street in front of republicans' homes is not illegal; e.g., protestors have gathered outside the home of former Senator Josh Hawley; another group demonstrated at the home of then-Representative Jason Lewis to protest healthcare policies & his refusal to hold a town hall.

Given the latest bad polls, congressional republicans know they can no longer run on trump's coattails.
They know that post midterms they might be gone and he'll be a lame duck.

[OldBaldy1701E]

13. Yes, this is all true.

However, you are also talking about the party of 'where the hell are they?'. Protesting at their homes means nothing if they are not there for the entire break. Which they could easily do. And, knowing the current sociopolitical climate, they will be wanting to do this.

But, it is my wish that this party is left 'non-existent' after the midterms. Other than lunatics and vultures, who else would want them? Such a situation as the one they find themselves in certainly makes me feel better about this thing.

Maybe not much, but better.

[ancianita]

14. I hear you about "better." As Obama has often said, "Better is good." That they're on the run should make

all of us feel better.

[Gimpyknee]

6. A normal Congress?

It’s been far from one.

[paleotn]

7. Want a normal Congress, Mike? Then resign and go back to Louisiana.

[ananda]

8. Ermm... Mikey... your Congress has never been normal.

You wouldn't know normal even if we
pulled your head out of Trump's ass
so you could see it.

[AllyCat]

9. I love this for Mike.