The alliance between Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump may prove to be the most important relationship in Washington.
Johnson sent shockwaves around Capitol Hill when he decided to oust Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio — a staunch NATO supporter who has aggressively pushed for U.S. aid to Ukraine — as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and replace him with Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., a conservative who voted against the most recent Ukraine aid package.
The House speaker said President Joe Biden will be remembered for a "wide-open border" and "the skyrocketing cost of living."
House Republicans will be defending their razor-thin majority for the second half of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said he selected Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., to serve as the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, one day after Johnson made the stunning decision to oust Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, from the role.
Making Democrats look bad by defending trans women — or look bad by not defending trans women — isn’t Republicans’ end goal here.
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Friday how a private conversation he once had with President Joe Biden nearly a year earlier revealed that the president’s memory was failing. “He has not been in charge for some time — and I know this by personal observation,
But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about three dozen right-wing,
Rep. Mike Turner last year warned of a “national security threat” in what some Republicans considered a political ruse.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday selected Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee, elevating the veteran panel member to the role after he removed Rep. Mike
Several Republican Governors have pledged to fly their flags at full-staff, despite President Biden’s former directive.
The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion. That will be piled on to a national debt that currently exceeds $36 trillion.