A Decision to Make: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding bill divides Republicans
That came just minutes after the House finally ended a three-week battle that culminated in the election of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) last fall. The House voted to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position but not before thoroughly eliminating three other candidates for speaker. I asked a House Republican leader what […]
Harris campaign silent on House bill banning contracts with ‘Chinese military company’ amid Walz ties
Seventy-nine Democrats voted against a bill that would effectively ban Chinese military companies from doing federal business in the United States, but Gov. Tim Walz's campaign did not state a position on the bill due to concerns about Gov. Tim Walz's ties to a research lab that does business with one of the companies targeted […]
WATCH: House Dems brush off Harris’ ‘so-called’ policy flipflops: ‘Overblown’
House Democratic leaders on Thursday dismissed claims that Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly reversed policy. Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn met with several House Democrats on Capitol Hill and pressed them on whether Harris needs to explain the policy shift. “I continue to think that these claims about policy shifts are overstated,” Rep. Dan […]
Speaker Johnson’s Office Denies He Told Senate Republicans to Strip SAVE Act from Funding Plan After House Passes Bill
House Speaker Mike Johnson has instructed Republican senators to remove the SAVE Act from the government funding bill once the House passes it, senior aides in Republican senate offices that support the SAVE Act being part of the government funding bill told Breitbart News on Thursday. Johnson's office has denied the allegations. The SAVE Act […]
No taxpayer dollars for illegal immigrant gender surgeries under new House GOP bill
First appeared on FOX: A new House Republican-led bill has been introduced to block federal funds from being used to pay for gender reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants. Rep. Greg Stube (R-Fla.) introduced the “Stop Paying for Transgender Surgery and Extraordinary Expenses to Illegal Aliens and Detainees (STOP WEIRD) Act” on Thursday, which has the […]
House GOP majority would block Iran peace deal efforts under a President Harris, top Republican vows
ExclusiveAccording to Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, Republicans will do everything in their power to block the Harris administration from negotiating a new Iran nuclear deal. “We will stop it by any means necessary,” the Republican conference chairman vowed in an exclusive interview with Fox News […]
Biden puts on Trump 2024 hat after 9/11 memorial, and White House says he did it to encourage political unity
President Joe Biden surprised and delighted many. Attach On Wednesday, he showed off his Trump 2024 hat in front of onlookers at a fire station in Pennsylvania. Biden was visiting the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks when someone asked him to put on a Trump campaign hat. […]
House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’
Exclusive: House Republicans have privately expressed dissatisfaction with former President Trump's performance in Tuesday's debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Several Republican House members, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that Trump “missed an opportunity” to effectively attack Harris and tout her record. Several said the prevailing view within the House Republican Conference was that […]
Defense hawks oppose House GOP's six-month CR plan
Republican defense hawks say Plan B in House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) stopgap federal spending bill is not viable as long as the six-month deadline is still included. “I'm not in favor of anything that takes four months. I'm not in favor of anything that goes beyond Dec. 31,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike […]
White House urged to ‘cease and desist’ social media ‘suppression campaigns’ after Zuckerberg letter
First appeared on FOX: The chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Crime is demanding that the Biden administration turn over documents detailing its efforts to suppress information after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused the White House of censorship last month. Rep. Nancy Mace (D-Lausanne), chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee's cybersecurity subcommittee, urged the […]