Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt ordered back to DC now for crucial vote after being MIA all month

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to temporarily hold off on bringing the final four government funding bills up for a final passage until a lone Texas Republican could return to the Capitol.

Hunt, who makes a $175,000 a year representing the people of Texas’s 38th congressional district, has missed votes all week and most of the month while campaigning for the Republican nomination for Senate.

The Washington Examiner confirmed that Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) had to return Washington, D.C., from Texas, where he has been campaigning against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). He did so at the request of Johnson, who has been facing difficulty in passing contentious bills due to the GOP’s thin margins.

Hunt’s return to Capitol Hill comes after reporting that he was