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 […]
President Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to press lawmakers on passing an emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as averting a looming government shutdown next month, according to a White House official. The top four leaders include House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence is creating a new conservative organization that will defend the principle that conservatism “is bigger than any one moment, election, or person,” RealClearPolitics reports. Part of Pence’s platform while a candidate for president was his warning against “unprincipled populism.” He never got any traction […]
Mike Tyson and Francis Ngannou are in Saudi Arabia, a pair of ferocious heavyweights with an eye on the championship belt. For Tyson, his role is ceremonial. The retired boxing great is set to present the winner of three title fights in the inaugural PFL vs. Bellator: Champs card with a custom championship belt. For […]
As more and more of alleged President Joe Biden’s controversies gain traction, ranging from the debate over the president’s mental acuity, to alleged bribes and money laundering of payments from Red China, Burisma and Russian oligarchs, to name but a few, plus questions about his role in arranging deals for his son Hunter and bother […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized President Biden for remarks he made at a fundraiser Wednesday saying the GOP is worse than the “real racists” he’s worked with in Congress. “Outrageous,” Mr. Johnson wrote on X. “The least popular president to seek reelection is now so desperate and so underwater in the polls he’s playing the […]
Congress has made little public progress since January on its quest to hit a March 1 deadline to partially fund the government, and the three dozen members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding an update. Members of the conservative grouping requested an update from House Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter Wednesday on the […]
A moderate Democrat in the House is floating a rule change designed to protect Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) from efforts by the far right to remove him. At the moment, there are several bipartisan bills stalled in Congress, including aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. It […]
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