Johnson-Massie feud boils over: "Why are we taking days off our calendar?"

Mike Johnson's decision to send the House home early — again — is fueling an increasingly bitter feud with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) over whether the speaker is using the calendar to dodge politically painful votes.Why it matters: The House will now be gone for more than six weeks ahead of the midterms, delaying Massie's effort to force a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war."We had the Epstein recess last year. We got the Epstein recess this year, and then we got the Hegseth day off," Massie told Axios coming off an hourlong tirade on the House