Mike Johnson asks Republicans to keep concerns private

Rank-and-file Republicans in the House are increasingly going public with anger towards their leadership. Speaker Mike Johnson has implored his Republican members to come to him privately, saying, “come to me, don’t go to social media.” But cracks within the Republican conference grew this week as a member of his own leadership team accused him of lying. Republican members are also going around leadership to bring their own legislation to the floor after Johnson kept the chamber out for nearly two months during the government shutdown. And now House leadership is struggling to pass their own legislative priorities, including a bill to regulate college sports.