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 White House on Friday announced it's canceling an additional $75 billion in debt as part of the Biden administration's most recent attempt at widespread student loan forgiveness ahead of the election. The administration announced the handouts, targeted at an estimated 277,000 borrowers across the country, with the national debt topping $34.5 trillion. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER: SEE WHAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (YOU) OWE IN REAL TIME Biden touted his Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan,...
The White House on Friday announced it's canceling an additional $7.4 billion in debt as part of the Biden administration's most recent attempt at widespread student loan forgiveness ahead of the election. The administration announced the handouts, targeted at an estimated 277,000 borrowers across the country, with the national debt topping $34.5 trillion. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER: SEE WHAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (YOU) OWE IN REAL TIME Biden touted his Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan,...
A mother has put her home up for sale after claiming the couple next door targeted her in a "relentless" campaign of harassment amid a bitter £150,000 dispute over the boundary between their two homes. Celia Tan, 57, removed the gutter from Robert and Helena Flach's home in 2019, saying it extended beyond the boundary between their homes and allowed water to flow onto their property. But the Flaxs claim the boundary line was 5 inches beyond the wall separating houses in Ruislip, west London,...
Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the proposal, lawmakers in Sacramento are trying again to extend unemployment benefits to California workers who are on strike. Under Senate Bill 1116, introduced by State Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) and State Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), California workers would be eligible to receive unemployment benefits after being on strike for 14 days. "No one goes on strike because they want to go on strike," Portantino said at a news conference...
A threatened vote of no confidence clouds House Speaker Mike Johnson’s future.
House congressional leaders were toiling Thursday on a delicate, bipartisan push toward weekend votes to approve a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several other national security policies at a critical moment at home and abroad. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson this
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And actually, we’d be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.
CNN’s Abby Phillip speaks with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House Speaker emerita, about Ukraine aid.
Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., on Republicans accusing DHS Secretary Mayorkas of
House Speaker Mike Johnson is having another bad week, and it’s only Tuesday. He got the Republican conference together Tuesday morning to present his complicated plan for the House to vote on aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The business of the day was derailed by Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who told Johnson he’s on thin ice. I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG. He should pre-announce his resignation (as...