Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is amping up her threat to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position as she continues to bash him for working with Democrats. “Permanent funding for Ukraine is exactly what they want and Mike Johnson will give it to them,” Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, wrote in an X post Sunday. […]
Speaker-of-the-moment Mike Johnson just proved again why Americans have taken to referring to our nation’s capital as the swamp by pulling a legislative fast one and actually pleasing many democrats as well as President Biden. In a rare Saturday session, the House approved Johnson and Biden’s pet $95 billion […]
President Biden scored another major legislative victory by getting Ukraine war aid through the Republican-run House with the help of Speaker Mike Johnson, who is now in jeopardy of losing his leadership to a revolt on his right flank. Mr. Johnson pushed a $95 billion foreign aid package through the House on Saturday despite major […]
House Democrats on Saturday blocked Speaker Mike Johnson’s modified border security measure, voting to defeat the bill as lawmakers considered a broad foreign aid package alongside it. The End the Catastrophe at the Southern Border Act required at least two-thirds support to pass but came nowhere near that threshold. The House killed the legislation 215-199. […]
The Chicago City Council has been known as a rubber stamp for the priorities of mayors for decades. But a bill to supply $70 million more in funding for migrants has raised the hackles of South Side and West Side aldermen whose black constituents are up in arms over the money being given to […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson leaned on significant help from Democrats to advance his $95 billion aid package on the House floor Friday, setting up final passage Saturday as he faces an increasingly disgruntled right flank threatening to oust him. More than 160 House Democrats voted with the GOP to advance the four-part measure, which includes […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to sway conservatives to vote for his foreign aid package by presenting a separate border security bill ran into wary conservatives, but he will get a second chance on the House floor on Saturday. The End the Border Catastrophe Act was devised by Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, as an olive […]
Efforts by conservative Republicans to prevent a House vote on foreign aid bills to Ukraine, Israel and Pacific allies failed Thursday after Democrats intervened. The four bills include another $60.84 billion in taxpayer money for Ukraine, $26.38 billion for Israel and $8.12 billion for Pacific allies such as Taiwan. A fourth bill would demand TikTok’s […]
House Democrats late Thursday helped advance a $95 billion foreign aid package in a rare move that salvaged federal money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and bailed out embattled Speaker Mike Johnson. A 9 to 3 committee vote to send the four-part aid package to the House floor quashed efforts by House conservatives to derail […]
Three House Republicans are facing calls to resign after they refused to support Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package. GOP Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, all members of the House Rules Committee, have threatened to vote against the bills if they make it to the […]
Welcome, Login to your account.
Welcome, Create your new account
A password will be e-mailed to you.