Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has bowed to pressure from Senate Republicans and will send a Ukraine aid package to the Senate soon. The aid bill will not resemble the $95 billion aid package the Senate passed in February. Instead, it will probably be in the form of loans or lend-lease structure to make it […]
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he hasn’t taken the time to do a “deep dive” into evidence compiled by House Republicans in their probe of President Biden, though he said what he has seen is “alarming” and shows “unprecedented corruption.” The Louisiana Republican’s comments Wednesday to reporters at the […]
Key Senate Republicans blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency for shoddy record-keeping regarding the transportation of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. FEMA distributes grants to nonprofit organizations for shelter and travel expenses for illegal immigrants, but last month informed The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project that it has no documentation about how that taxpayer money has […]
Word has begun to leak out about an “intense” meeting over government funding, the border and aid to Ukraine at the White House on Feb. 27, where Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was confronted by Mitch McConnell and the other leaders of the Democratic Party on Capitol Hill. (Yes, you read the right, “other […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson again suffered a wave of defections from members of his party to pass a stopgap bill, moving Congress a step closer to beating the Friday shutdown deadline. The same as with the stopgap in January, House Democrats bailed out Mr. Johnson to pass the new two-step funding patch on Thursday. It […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants to “turn the page” on the current spending fight and shift focus to next year’s appropriations cycle ahead of a vote Thursday to keep the government open. Congress is slated to vote on its fourth stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown and could put an end […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly faced fire from other top elected officials — including Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — during a meeting at the White House Tuesday that was described as “intense.” Johnson met with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and McConnell, who each pressured him […]
The White House set high expectations for President Biden’s meeting this week with congressional leaders, saying it hopes the sit-down will advance efforts to avoid a government shutdown and provide Ukraine funding. Mr. Biden will convene Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democratic; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican; House […]
Rep. Patrick McHenry thinks House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to do a better job when it comes to getting bills passed in the lower chamber to avoid the impending partial government shutdown. Mr. McHenry, who served as speaker pro tempore in October after former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, was ousted as speaker, told CNN’s […]
As Congress careens toward another budget deadline Axios reports that Democrats are likely to block a clean Continuing Resolution that allows the 1% cuts to take effect. As Juliegrace Brufke explained, the government will start a partial shutdown unless a budget or spending stopgap is passed by March 1. It will go into a full […]
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