President Donald Trump supported an effort on Thursday to allow the remote vote of the legislators of the House of Representatives who are new parents, directly inserting into a republican dispute that arrested legislative businesses this week.
The impulse for remote voting is being directed in part by the representative Anna Paulina Luna, republican of F-Fla., Who has faced the speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of the la-la., For her opposition to the measure.
When asked where he is in the matter, Trump put on the moon side.
“If you have a baby, I think you should be able to call and vote. I am in favor of that,” Trump told journalists on Thursday afternoon on Air Force One. “I don’t know why he is controversial.”
Trump said he spoke with Luna on Wednesday, adding that although he understands the perspective of those against the proposed rule change, he agrees with her and others who feel “strongly about it.”
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Luna said Wednesday night in Newsmax that Trump had assured him “that this would be resolved.”
Trump’s support for the proposal puts him in poor condition with Johnson, who has described the unconstitutional power vote. This week tried the effort of Stymie Luna to force a vote on a power vote measure.
While Trump said Thursday that he would finally postpone Johnson, his public support on Luna could generate more support for the effort after Johnson previously discouraged the Republicans of the rank of supporting the vote impulse by power.
After Trump’s comments, Luna said in X that Johnson had called her and proposed to limit her power of power “only to new mothers who cannot travel physically in case of emergency,” an idea she called “intelligent.”
A Johnson representative did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
In a publication now eliminated in X, Johnson indicated on Thursday night that Luna could endanger the republican agenda after the camera’s floor procedures stagnated this week.
Luna indicated early on Thursday night that Trump’s support would help bring his measure in the finish line.
“I am sure that with the support of President Trump, my power resolution will be approved and the new mothers and fathers in Congress will be able to vote for the first United States agenda that we promised,” he said in X. “Thanks to the members of the Congress that stopped me when it was not easy.”
Nine Republicans in the Chamber joined the Democrats to block the Republican Party of the House of Representatives to advance a package of bills on Tuesday after Johnson included a language that would kill the vote impulse by power.
Luna had tried to force a floor vote on the resolution through a high request, a procedure tool that allows any chamber member that collects 218 signatures to bring a measure to the floor. He reached that threshold, pointing out the bipartisan support of most chamber members.
Johnson pledged on Wednesday to redouble his efforts to block the remote voting impulse.
“I don’t admit in something that I think it’s unconstitutional. I can’t,” said Johnson. “I made an oath to maintain the Constitution. So we will find a path through this.”
Johnson has pointed out interest in accommodation for new fathers, including a room for infant mothers.
Luna notified on Tuesday his intention to call a floor vote. If the camera has votes on Monday and Tuesday, as planned, Johnson must allow the bill to come to the floor to vote on Tuesday unless he may think of another procedure mechanism to subvert it.
The measure, sponsored in part by Luna and the representative Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., Would allow the new parents to vote for power for 12 weeks after the birth of a child and would also allow pregnant legislators to vote for power if doctors determine that they cannot travel safely.
Last year there was a similar bill after Luna was told that he could not vote after the birth of his son in August 2023 if he did not travel to Washington.
Republicans have fiercely opposed the vote of power from the Covid pandemic, when the then president of the house, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Authorized the practice as a precaution of security. Republicans for years accused members of taking advantage of rules. Kevin McCarthy, from California, the republican leader of the Chamber at that time, challenged the practice in court.
Johnson said in January that he also presented a summary before the Supreme Court that states that the vote by power is unconstitutional.
