Speaker Mike Johnson pushed a $95 billion foreign aid package to passage in the House on Saturday amid threats by the GOP’s far-right flank that it’ll move to oust him over it. The sweeping package, passed in four separate bills, includes aid funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, along with a fourth measure that sanctions […]
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. […]
“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time,” Abraham Lincoln supposedly said. House Speaker Mike Johnson is the living embodiment of that […]
A third House Republican member has announced he will co-sponsor a motion to vacate introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that, if passed, would end Mike Johnson’s tenure as House speaker after fewer than six months. If all 213 House Democrats vote in support of the motion to remove Johnson, R-Ky., as speaker, only […]
Another conservative has joined the list of Republicans vying to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson over his decision to push Ukraine aid at the expense of securing the southern border. Arizona’s Paul Gosar on Friday said he’s all in with fellow Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky in their crusade […]
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 […]
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 […]
A group of conservatives are urging House Speaker Mike Johnson to abandon a $95 billion foreign aid package before GOP rebels toss him out of the job. A pack of Republicans from the GOP’s far-right flank huddled around Mr. Johnson in the chamber on Thursday, trying to convince him to save himself by dropping a […]
Just over six months after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the speakership by House Democrats and a handful of Republicans, current Speaker Mike Johnson faces a similar threat. A number of Republicans in the House object to the way in which Johnson is handling foreign aid legislation that would give billions to […]
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