House Speaker Mike Johnson, who with Trump’s endorsement won the Republican Conference’s nomination to stay on as speaker next year, has talked of taking a “blowtorch” to the federal government and its programs, eyeing ways to overhaul even popular programs championed by Democrats in recent...
it has become a rite of passage for the speaker to engage in a path of confrontation against the White House. The usual aim is to coerce them into making politically humiliating concessions through the power of government shutdowns. In the constitution, it is the U.S...
Although House Speaker Mike Johnson has floated the possibility of repealing these pieces of legislation,10 we do not expect that to happen. Both pieces of legislation are popular, and their benefits are skewed toward Republican districts, making it unlikely they will be able to get enough votes...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in Congress, said on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that the indictment was an attempt to "attack the frontrunner for the Republican nomination". Strategists said that while the indictments could help Trump solidify...
After Republicansswept into the majorityin the U.S. Senate by picking up seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, House SpeakerMike Johnsonpredicted his chamber would fall in line next. “Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, ...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today blamed Republicans and President Trump forthe collapse in talks on another stimulusfor Americans who continue to suffer financially from the coronavirus pandemic. In a fiery exchange with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Pelosi argued that Republicans’ offer of a roughly $1.8 ...
* Johnson suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and House Democrats) voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol as a way to cover up her own culpability for what happened that day. (There’s no evidence to back up that claim.) *...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to take responsibility for the loss of House seats Democrats suffered in the 2020 elections. “I take credit for winning the majority,” she defiantly told CNN’s Manu Raju at her press conference today. Asked how the smaller majority of Democrat...