{"id":1056425,"date":"2025-10-07T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056425"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:16:44","slug":"breaking-mike-johnson-says-well-schedule-grijalva-swearing-in-as-soon-as-she-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/breaking-mike-johnson-says-well-schedule-grijalva-swearing-in-as-soon-as-she-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Mike Johnson Says \u201cWe\u2019ll Schedule\u201d Grijalva Swearing In \u201cAs Soon as She Wants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, after almost two weeks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/speaker-johnson-has-yet-to-swear-in-newly-elected-arizona-lawmaker-adelita-grijalva\">refusing<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1975590778102485390\">swear in<\/a> Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Mike Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1975642351755235712\">said<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ll schedule it \u2014 I guess \u2014 as soon as she wants.\u201d Grijalva promised to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/adelita-grijalva-house-epstein.html\">tie-breaker<\/a> to force a vote to release the Epstein Files and bring transparency to Americans and justice to the victims of Epstein\u2019s heinous crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, after months of Trump\u2019s White House refusing to release the Epstein files, Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/10\/congress\/walkinshaw-signs-jeffrey-epstein-discharge-petition-massie-khanna-00556162\">filed a discharge petition<\/a> to force a floor vote that would require the Justice Department to release the Epstein Files. After her victory in Arizona last month, Rep.-elect Grijalva <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdelitaForAZ\/status\/1973143987486859668\">came to the Capitol<\/a>, ready to be sworn in and become the tie-breaking vote on the discharge petition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, Johnson chose to delay several days, even though earlier this year, two Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house\/\">were sworn in<\/a> less than 24 hours after their elections. And now, Trump has shut down the government, providing another excuse for Republicans to further delay Grijalva\u2019s swearing in. Maybe Johnson will finally do the right thing and put an end to this government cover-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter countless excuses and delays, Mike Johnson finally committed to swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva \u2018as soon as she wants\u2019 \u2014 so do it, Speaker Johnson. The American people are done with the stalling, delaying, and lying that has come out of Trump\u2019s White House and his Republican loyalists in Congress as they try to cover up the truth about Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s heinous crimes. The public deserves answers \u2014 not excuses. Swear her in. Release the Files.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after almost two weeks of refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Mike Johnson said, \u201cWe\u2019ll schedule it \u2014 I guess \u2014 as soon as she wants.\u201d Grijalva promised to be the tie-breaker to force a vote to release the Epstein Files and bring transparency to Americans and justice to the victims of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Mike Johnson Says \u201cWe\u2019ll Schedule\u201d Grijalva Swearing In \u201cAs Soon as She Wants\u201d - 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