GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Blocks Bill To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday

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A bipartisan effort to make Juneteenth a federal holiday failed in the Senate on Wednesday after Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blocked it from advancing.

Johnson, a conservative who takes hardline stances of federal spending, said that while he supported honoring the day that has come to mark slavery’s end in the U.S., said doing so with a new holiday would “give federal workers a paid day off that the rest of America has to pay for.”

He also estimated that creating another federal holiday would cost the private sector “up to $600 million a year.”

Senate Democrats, joined by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, proposed the federal holiday in June, one of the responses to nationwide protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. House Democrats also won the support of several Republicans for a similar bill offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/juneteenth-federal-holiday-johnson-225958468.html

[LakeArenal]

1. Gawd I hate him.

Never hated a group of people like this.

[still_one]

2. Hopefully this will come back to haunt this POS, just like McCain vote against making MLK a federal

holiday

[stillcool]

3. Isn't he one of Putin's people?

[stopbush]

4. Why are Columbus Day and Christmas Federal holidays?

Christmas is a religious holiday, the only religious holiday that is a Fed holiday...and of course, the religion celebrated is Xianity. Why?

Columbus Day? A day that celebrates the European colonization of the Americas and the eventual killing of millions of indigenous people? Uh huh.

Get rid of either or both to make room for Juneteenth.

[NCjack]

5. Good idea, and blame the Republicans for forcing this trade to get Juneteenth.