After Iran's strikes on Israel, Speaker Mike Johnson is facing pressure to pass a foreign aid deal to support the embattled country. Senators passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes money for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in February. The deal also includes billions for Ukraine, which many in the GOP don't support. Johnson is also facing the threat of removal from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene if he moves forward with the Senate's bill
The House on Friday voted to reauthorize a key U.S. spy program considered crucial to national security.
The House of Representatives has approved sending $60 billion to Ukraine for its defense against Russia’s invasion, an issue that has roiled Speaker Mike Johnson’s already perilously slim majority. The aid package passed 311 to 112, with more Democrats voted in favor than Republicans – and just 101 Republicans voted for the bill while 112 voted nay. In a dramatic moment toward the end of the vote, Democrats began passing around Ukrainian flags — in violation of House protocol, according to the...
Nearly half of Tory MPs, including five leadership hopefuls, failed to support Rishi Sunak’s flagship smoking ban on Tuesday.]]>
The final defeat of the GOP three-headed monster won't be as dramatic as the 7th Cavarly's last stand. But it'll be driven by the same suicidal hubris.
A bill aimed at reforming Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans customer bills passed in the Louisiana House on Tuesday, April 16.
Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and James Comer, R-Ky., shouted at each other Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on China. Rep. Raskin took issue with Republicans accusing Joe Biden of accepting bribes. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
The government plans to deport to Rwanda some of those who enter the United Kingdom illegally as a deterrent to migrants who risk their lives in leaky, inflatable boats in hopes that they will be able to claim asylum once they reach Britain.
Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east AfricaHow the UK government’s Rwanda deportation plan was fought in courtRishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum.After a marathon battle of “ping pong” over the key legislation between the Commons and the Lords, the bill finally passed...
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a $95 billion package that will provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after months of standstill and tensions within the House Republican conference. The four separate bills will provide foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and include a new measure to force the sale of TikTok after […]
Stalin didn't need warrants, but he would have wished for the U.S. government’s ability to buy American citizens' data from data brokers.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program on Friday, in a major step toward keeping a key element of the United States' foreign intelligence-gathering operation in place.