House Speaker Mike Johnson is still defending his asinine decision to keep the House in recess for more than a month.

"House Republicans are doing some of the most meaningful work of their careers,” he said during a news conference Monday. “They are in their districts working around the clock with their constituents, helping them not only to negotiate the crisis that's been created by this Democrat shutdown, but all the other matters that they need to attend to. And I am hearing from them individually. They are having some of the most meaningful interactions at a time of great crisis with their constituents that they've ever had, and that's really, really important. So I don't want to pull them away from that work.”

Johnson also claimed that there’s "plenty of time" left in the year for

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