Mike Johnson may be the most even-keeled, unflappable leader I’ve ever known in my years of observing Congress. His razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives—at least until November 5th, when 435 members of the House will be up for reelection—virtually assures power plays and legislative gamesmanship by some members of Congress who are not as clued into the big picture as Speaker Johnson is.

However, on the Salem Media Group news program, THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, the frustrations of this past week’s battles over keeping the federal government fully funded after September 30th were evident.

First, the House defeated a Continuing Resolution containing the SAVE Act, an astonishing move that torpedoed the much-needed safeguard against illegals voting in the 2024 presidential election. As outlined in my earlier columns, SAVE (the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) would codify the need for anyone registering to vote to provide incontrovertible proof of American citizenship. This would close the loopholes many Democrat-controlled cities and states have........

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