After months of escalating tensions, the House overwhelmingly passed a $95 billion foreign aid package Saturday, despite a majority of Republicans voting against additional funding for Ukraine. The three-bill package, which includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel (including $9 billion earmarked for humanitarian aid in Gaza), and $8 billion for U.S. allies … Read more
Representative Don Bacon acknowledged Sunday that it is “possible” that Speaker Mike Johnson will lose the top House job over an impending vote on aid to Ukraine. “I’m not going to deny it,” the Nebraska conservative told NBC’s Kristen Welker. The comment comes as the House enters the second half of a two-week recess, which … Read more
At a time when Republicans want voters to give them more power, by putting them in control of the Senate and White House with ballots in November, let’s take a look at the job they’ve done running the House. The 118th Congress, first under Speaker Kevin McCarthy and now Mike Johnson, has truly been a … Read more
Mike Johnson’s razor-thin House majority got even tinier on Friday, after Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher announced plans to retire in April. Gallagher, who has served in Congress since 2016 and currently chairs a congressional select committee investigating the Chinese Communist Party, said in a statement that the move came “after conversations with my family,” but … Read more
President Joe Biden needs congressional leaders to hammer out their differences at a White House meeting Tuesday as a partial government shutdown looms at the end of the week. But whether the outcome will be amenable is unclear: Even as Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans plead with their lower chamber counterparts to avoid a shutdown, conservatives in Mike Johnson’s House … Read more
The nation is fiercely divided over the $118 billion U.S. Senate border deal, including in the Bay State where Gov. Maura Healey is pushing for the bill amid the migrant crisis while a local immigrant group called the legislation “inhumane and un-American.” The bipartisan Senate bill, which would address southern border enforcement policy and also … Read more
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) will reportedly make a decision about if she is running for reelection or retiring this weekend. In a text message to Politico, Spartz said she would “probably make my decision what to do this weekend.” The Indiana lawmaker announced in October that she would consider resigning from her position if Congress … Read more
New York Representative Elise Stefanik, the fourth-ranking member of House Republican leadership and a staunch defender of former President Donald Trump, refused to say whether she would certify the 2024 presidential election results. “We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik told Kirsten Welker of NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” Stefanik … Read more
Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she was switching districts in next year’s 2024 House race, in a bid to salvage her scandal-plagued political career. In a video announcing the move, Boebert said she’d be running in Colorado’s 4th district—the state’s most conservative—which represents the eastern part of the state, instead of the … Read more
