Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) is leaving the House. He announced his decision to not seek re-election on Saturday. Gallagher will finish his term but then he will be going to the private sector. “Congress is no place to grow old,” he said. It was a surprise announcement. This is his eighth year in Congress. He […]
The House voted against another attempt at a standalone Israel aid bill on Tuesday, handing Speaker Mike Johnson another defeat during his rocky tenure with the gavel. Mr. Johnson’s $17.6 billion emergency aid bill was sunk on a bipartisan vote, with House Republicans and Democrats joining forces — for vastly different reasons — to kill […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson accused President Biden of abandoning Israel in its hour of need by threatening to veto a standalone aid bill. He said the aid for Israel’s war with Hamas will get there faster and get it “off the table” by decoupling it from President Biden’s border policy and foreign aid package that […]
I was pleasantly surprised that some conservatives agreed and asked, “what can we do to get in the fight and win it” (I’ll get to that in a minute), but I was not at all surprised that some accused me of being overly dramatic by characterizing what’s been going on in our country as a […]
Bill Maher threw rapper “Killer Mike” a softball. Who was Mike — real name Michael Santiago Render — supporting for president? Presumably Maher figured the answer was easy, given Render’s political activism, which includes opposition to what he sees as systematic racism and police brutality. Maher pitched, and Render gave an answer. Except it was […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper and activist won three Grammy awards including his first in more than two decades. In a video posted by the trade website The Hollywood Reporter, Mike was escorted in handcuffs by Los Angeles police at Crypto.com Arena after […]
The House Intelligence Committee chairman said Sunday he was “very concerned” about Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to move forward with standalone aid for Israel that excludes more money for Ukraine. Mr. Johnson will hold a vote this week on $17.5 billion for Israel to counter the Democratic-led Senate’s plan to vote on a $110 billion […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday rejected the suggestion that former President Donald Trump should receive credit for the impending demise of a bipartisan deal in the Senate for a southern border security bill. The legislation, expected to be released Sunday as part of a $110 billion national security package for Israel, Ukraine and Tawana, […]
A former Trump administration official who was gravely wounded during a gunman’s rampage last week through the District and Prince George’s County died from his injuries Saturday, according to his family. Mike Gill, who was the chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Trump administration, died in a hospital, said his […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson quashed any notion of putting a border security and foreign aid package on the House floor soon, saying Senate leadership “eliminated the ability for swift consideration” of the legislation because of a lack of House GOP input. Mr. Johnson told his conference in a letter obtained by The Washington Times that […]
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