In case you’re not familiar with the super PAC Defending Main Street, they typically work to get conservative Republicans elected to Congress and defend incumbents facing tight races in swing districts. But now they’re doing something a bit unusual, at least for them. They just dropped nearly half a million dollars into an advertising buy […]
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill. Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chair—the House’s terminology for […]
Republicans may be on the brink of getting rid of another House speaker. At least, that’s what it looks like to Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Axios reported Tuesday that Massie joined Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia as the second House Republican to call for House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. The conservative congressman […]
It was an investigation in search of a violation of federal law. It was a waste of time. Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy requested that carpenters in the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) make eight gavels from fallen trees on the campus. An agency watchdog group launched an investigation after it received a […]
Rep. Austin Scott, a Republican from Georgia who has criticized conservatives and is campaigning actively against the House Freedom Caucus chairman, is Speaker Mike Johnson’s choice for a newly vacant seat on the powerful Rules Committee. Scott’s selection Wednesday infuriated conservatives on Capitol Hill. The Daily Signal spoke with several lawmakers and staffers whose reactions […]
Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the deal as an act of “responsible” government. “Again, nobody got everything they wanted,” said Schumer, “but this bill is the […]
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a motion to remove the gavel from House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday morning after she categorized the GOP’s handling of its slim majority as an abject failure. The motion, and the displeasure of other conservatives with Johnson, could see the Louisiana Republican ousted after four months […]
If there’s one thing that Republican politics in the 21st century should have taught us all, it’s that RINOs never die. For instance, you might be forgiven for thinking that the October tumult that sent former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy into very early retirement might have quieted a certain element of the professional conservative Beltway […]
Former House Speaker Pot returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday, carrying an important message: His GOP kettle rivals, the ones that drove him from office? Yeah, it turns out they’re all black. When I talk of former House Speaker Pot, I mean, of course, the now ex-congressman from California and once-upon-a-time House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas personally declined a request from presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secret Service protection last July. The newly revealed records were obtained by Judicial Watch, which sued the Department of Homeland Secretary in September over an unanswered Freedom of Information Act request. On July 21, 2023, Mayorkas sent the […]
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