We’ve all heard it: “You can’t make somethin’ out of nothin’.” Or so it would seem, though president elect Donald J. Trump appears destined to try if his plan to create new American cities out of currently mostly barren federal lands ever comes to fruition.
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House Rejects Revised Spending Bill as Republicans Break Ranks
The House of Representatives’ spending bill, the American Relief Act 2025, failed on Thursday to get a two-thirds majority vote.
Read MoreSpeaker Johnson Shares Website to Check for Fraudulent Donations amid ActBlue Scrutiny
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shared a website, dubbed “checkmydonation.com” on which Americans can check whether their name has been used for any political donations without their permission amid scrutiny of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue.
Read MoreU.S. House Moves Forward with Stopgap Spending Bill that Doesn’t Include Election Integrity Law
The Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives is now planning to vote on a stopgap spending bill that will not include a critical election integrity measure that conservatives have been desperately trying to pass.
Read More‘Never Mentally Fit’: Republicans Call for Biden to Resign the Presidency Now That He’s Dropped Out of the Race
Republicans began calling for President Joe Biden to resign the presidency after the president ended his reelection bid Sunday.
Read MoreHouse Passes Bill Aiming to Keep Illegal Immigrants from Voting
The House passed a bill on Wednesday that requires proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration.
Read MoreD.C. Holds Training Sessions for Noncitizens to Vote
An agency of the District of Columbia held a training session last month to teach illegal immigrants and other noncitizens how to vote, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
News of the training session held by the local government in the nation’s capital comes as House Republicans push a bill—with the backing of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.—to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
Read MoreFrom Watergate to Now: John Solomon Exposes Deepening Collusion and Tampering in Trump Investigations
From his studios at Just the News, John Solomon joined Steve Bannon on WarRoom on Monday to examine previous impeachment proceedings and investigations concerning Donald Trump. He exposed some breaking news, reporting that there is extensive evidence of tampering and witness tampering in the Ukraine impeachment and subsequent investigations.
Read MoreGreene Says She’s Filing Motion to Vacate Against Johnson Next Week
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said on Wednesday that she’s filing a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson next week.
Read MoreRep. Gosar Joins Two Other House Republicans in Supporting GOP Speaker Johnson’s Ouster
Rep. Paul Gosar on Friday joined two other House Republicans in supporting GOP Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion last month to vacate the speaker’s chair, and so far two other GOP lawmakers have joined the effort.
Read MoreCommentary: Speaker Mike Johnson’s ‘Personal Conservatism’ Betrays the Conservative Movement
The election of Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana to Speaker of the House has thrown into stark relief the difference between what one might call “personal conservatives” and those of us who consider ourselves to be part of the conservative movement, or movement conservatives.
There’s no doubt that Speaker Johnson lives his life according to a set of conservative principles: He’s a church-going man known for his personal rectitude; he married his wife in a “covenant marriage;” as a lawyer he advocated a constitutional “textualist” approach to his cases; he spent many years actively involved in advancing the Right-to-Life; he opposes same sex marriages, and in 2015 he took one of his daughters to a purity ball.
Read MoreCongress Approves $380 Million for ‘Border Security’ Measures in Middle Eastern Countries
One provision of the $1.2 trillion spending package passed by Congress and signed into law by Joe Biden last month will see at least $380 million spent on securing the borders of several Middle Eastern countries, while the American border remains wide open.
According to Fox News, the appropriation of $380 million will be available until September 2025, and will fund “enhanced border security” measures in the countries of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia. Jordan will be receiving the most out of the five, at $150 million.
Read MoreJohnson Proposes Ukraine Aid ‘Innovations’ Including Loans, Using Seized Russian Oligarch Money
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he expects the House to move forward with an aid package that would provide support for Ukraine with “some important innovations,” which may include loans for the war-torn Eastern European nation and using seized assets from Russian oligarchs.
On Fox News’ “Sunday Night In America” Johnson appeared receptive to a plan that would offer Ukraine a loan rather than aid, as Congress has already approved $113 billion in response to Russia’s invasion since February 2022, per the Government Accountability Office.
Read MoreCommentary: This Has to Be the End of the Road for Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell has to be finished as the caucus leader for the Republicans in the Senate. Now. He has to resign, and if he won’t, then that caucus needs to get together and force him out.
Now. Not next week, not next month, not after this election cycle. Now.
Read MoreTrump Blasts Senate Border Bill: ‘Don’t Fall for It’
Many Republicans already are criticizing a border bill expected to be voted on in the U.S. Senate. Former President Donald Trump blasted the proposed legislation Monday, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called it “dead on arrival.”
Read MoreSenate Unveils $118 Billion, Bipartisan Border Security, Asylum Bill that Includes Money for Ukraine
The Senate on Sunday night released the text of its long-awaited border security bill.
Read MoreHouse Freedom Caucus Calls Speaker Johnson’s Proposed Spending Deal with Schumer ‘Total Failure’
The conservative House Freedom Caucus slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposed top-line spending deal with Senate Democrats as a “total failure,” arguing the potential agreement costs about $68 billion more than the Louisiana Republican said it would.
Read MoreSpeaker Johnson Announces Spending Deal to Avert Shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday said Congressional leaders reached a topline spending deal to avert a federal government shutdown by providing funding through the rest of the fiscal year.
Read MoreHouse GOP Leadership Pulls Both FISA Bills Following Backlash
House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced backlash for allowing two bills to be introduced on the surveillance law.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the House Rules Committee, confirmed to the Washington Examiner late Monday evening that neither of the bills reforming Section 702 would come to the floor for a vote this week.
Read MoreHouse Freedom Caucus Comes Out Against Johnson’s Continuing Resolution
The House Freedom Caucus (HFC) came out against Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government ahead of the vote on Tuesday, according to a press release.
Johnson’s two-part plan, the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act of 2024,” would avert a Nov. 17 government shutdown by issuing both a Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 funding deadline when certain spending legislation would expire, according to the bill’s text. The HFC is opposing the “clean” CR because it doesn’t provide any spending cuts or other conservative provisions, the press release reads.
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