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Biden approves $500M Ukraine security package 11 days before Trump takes office

The Biden administration on Thursday announced an additional $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, a security package rushed in before President-elect Trump took office. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made the announcement during his final meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Both officials used the opportunity to urge […]

Johnson tells House GOP Trump wants one reconciliation package

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told House Republicans on Saturday that President-elect Trump wants to pass one reconciliation bill, which several other Republicans have pushed for. He said it is a strategy that goes against the efforts of the two bills. Johnson made the announcement during a closed-door meeting of House Republicans in Fort McNair, […]

House passes rules package that will raise threshold for motion to vacate speaker

The Republican-controlled House on Friday passed proposed rules that would make it more difficult to remove the speaker from office. Under the new rules package, which passed the House on a close party-line vote of 215-209, a motion to vacate the speaker would require at least nine members of the speaker's same party to support […]

Republicans look to defang motion to oust House speaker in new rules package

Republican leaders are aiming to scale back the motion to remove the House speaker to avoid a repeat of the insurrection against Kevin McCarthy that paralyzed the House for about three weeks in 2023. Under the new rules package, scheduled for a vote on Friday, a motion to vacate the chair would need eight co-sponsors […]

House Rules Package Raises Threshold to Remove Speaker

As some conservatives consider removing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), proposed House rules announced Wednesday would raise the bar for removing a speaker. The proposed House rules would raise the bar for filing a motion to resign, the parliamentary procedure for removing the Speaker of the House. The new standard requires a member of the […]