A Trump-backed challenger has forced Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan into a runoff election. According to CBS, challenger David Covey won 46 percent of the vote against Phelan’s 43 percent. Because neither candidate reached the 50 percent mark in the three-way race, a runoff will be held. Covey is a former chairman of the Orange […]
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 […]
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 […]
Former House Speaker Pot returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday, carrying an important message: His GOP kettle rivals, the ones that drove him from office? Yeah, it turns out they’re all black. When I talk of former House Speaker Pot, I mean, of course, the now ex-congressman from California and once-upon-a-time House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson joined the ranks of Republicans downplaying the GOP‘s loss in New York’s special election, arguing that Democrats should not “celebrate too much.” Former Rep. Tom Suozzi cruised to an eight-point victory Tuesday over New York State Legislator Mazi Pilip, flipping the seat once held by former Rep. George Santos. Mr. Suozzi‘s […]
Democrats on Tuesday tore into former President Donald Trump and House Republicans, saying conservatives’ hostility toward a $95.3 billion national security package with aid for Israel and Ukraine jeopardizes the country. The bill cleared the Senate earlier in the day with the support from 22 Republican senators — nearly half of the GOP conference — […]
A House Democrat suggested Tuesday that any Republican lawmakers who favor a Senate-passed foreign aid bill could remove Speaker Mike Johnson, even temporarily, so the House can vote on the $95 billion measure. Rep. Wiley Nickel, North Carolina Democrat, said during a House floor speech on Tuesday that there were likely enough House Republicans who […]
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