Trump’s Orders to Freeze All Federal Spending This Week Have Republican Governors in a Bind
They know the impact of this uncertainty on their constituency, but they also don’t want to be seen as crossing El Caudillo ...
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Takeaways from RFK Jr.’s first confirmation hearing as Trump’s nominee for health secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two ...
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Mike Johnson
Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and eked out a win after initially coming up short.
‘Yo!’ Mayor Brandon Johnson’s texts reveal governing style and intrigue at City Hall
The mayor’s exchanges with officials show he is more reluctant than predecessors Lori Lightfoot and Rahm Emanuel to put much ...
President Trump’s visit to view wildfire damage leaves questions about what federal aid will come
Experts say compromise might be needed to get the president’s support for a big aid package. Some say politicization of the ...
Recap: Senate confirms Hegseth as Defense secretary; Trump tours fire damage in LA
Donald Trump scored a big win in Washington and visited North Carolina, California and Nevada on first trip since beginning ...
Cracks emerge in House GOP after speaker’s threat to saddle California wildfire aid with conditions
In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages ...
In Louisiana, can a member of the U.S. Congress be removed? Here's what you need to know
Senator Bill Cassidy (R) is a former doctor. He was elected to the Senate in 2015 after serving in the U.S. House of ...
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The Conditions of Mike Johnson
Such are the conditions of Mr. Mike Johnson and his Republican caucus. For Israel, anything. For our brothers and sisters in California, a miserable lesson in voting blue. Here’s hoping that, when the ...
Mike Johnson Proposes Conditional Wildfire Aid for California, Los Angeles
House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that any relief aid for California and Los Angeles is likely to require policy ...
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Larry Wilson: After the fires, out-of-state pols spin lies about California
Politicians in red states such as Louisiana do a lot ... somehow a grandstanding pol such as the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, can say that federal aid should be conditional: “It ...