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

On Wednesday (July 22), the senior US Senator for Wisconsin blocked the bipartisan effort to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

While Johnson said he supported honoring the day, which celebrates the commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, he said a new holiday would “give federal workers a paid day off that the rest of America has to pay for,” according to HuffPost. 

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