Yuval RosenbergApril 19, 2024The House took a significant step Friday toward passing a long-delayed $95 billion package of foreign aid bills,
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a gambit to burst a legislative logjam and unleash a four-vote flood including a standalone vote on tens of billions in American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.
The planned vote on a foreign aid package is validation of a White House strategy to court the speaker behind the scenes while letting him find his own path.
Yuval RosenbergApril 15, 2024Iran’s unprecedented direct attack on Israel this weekend has ramped up the pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson to
After months of GOP infighting, House lawmakers have passed foreign aid funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. House Speaker Johnson is facing Republican calls to resign over the funding.
The U.S. House of Representatives approval — after months of wrangling — of a nearly $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine has not come too late, but the delay has had real consequences, NATO's chief said on Sunday. "The Ukrainians are now four months being outgunned," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told MSNBC."The Russians have had much more ammunition. And Ukraine has been forced to ration their ammunition," Stoltenberg said. "But it's not too late. The Ukrainians have...
Johnson is reported to have met President Maduro alongside Merlyn Advisors co-founder Maarten Petermann in February.
Hundreds of people lined up in Westfield to be part of a large program to promote recreational fishing in western Massachusetts.
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled on Monday evening an outline of his plan to address the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
In recent speeches and op-eds, my colleague Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) imagines “a world of scarcity” in which “the math” compels us to conclude the United States “lack[s] the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.” He and other congressional isolationists claim that the United States […]
The day after Iran attacked Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson was on the phone with a man who suddenly held the keys to his legislative agenda and potentially his own future: House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. In a phone call that has not been previously reported, Johnson said he was ready to act on foreign aid, even though that would enrage Republicans who did not support additional assistance to Ukraine and could potentially cost him his job, a source familiar with the conversation told...
Three cheers for bipartisanship and the leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson: When push came to shove, they carried the day as the House voted 316-94 Friday to advance urgent foreign-aid bills to the floor for debate and final votes on Saturday.