With the 2024 presidential election looming, Donald Trump insiders are feuding with the far-right members of the House Freedom Caucus whose leader endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) leaving bruised feelings and lingering resentment. Previously headed up by Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) — both of whom went on to serve as White House chief of staff for the former president — Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) is now at the helm and that has members of Trump's inner circle furious because of...
By Elaine S. Povich for Minnesota Reformer When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a two-foot stack of books—including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist—to protest inaction on his bills last week, Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin quickly took up the cause. Seizing on a chance to hijack the planned schedule, Brattin spoke for about 45 minutes, accusing the leaders of his own Republican Party of ignoring some bills and making things...
The House Freedom Caucus said that the path toward securing the border goes through killing Speaker Mike Johnson's foreign aid package.
The House GOP Caucus seems on the verge of open civil war as the House Rules Committee debates the rule for voting on the foreign aid bills Speaker Johnson has pledged to bring to a vote on Saturday.
The House Freedom Caucus listed a series of demands to earn its support for funding the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, mainly calling on the Biden administration to lift natural gas export bans.
In the midst of one of his early morning social media snits, Donald Trump thumped out an all-caps “KILL FISA” insisting that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was used to spy on his campaign. Trump’s timing wasn’t coincidental, as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had scheduled a rule vote on Wednesday to bring the FISA bill up for reauthorization. It’s the kind of thing that should have gone along without an issue. During both tenures of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the number of rule...
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
Earlier this week, the Arizona Supreme Court dealt the latest blow to women’s freedom by resurrecting a 160-year-old law banning abortion almost outright. Ditching its previous rules allowing abortion up to 15 weeks, Arizonan politicians decided Civil-War era legislation from 1864 would do, which bans abortion in all cases except when the mother’s life is at risk, and punishes doctors who perform abortions as felons with up to five years in jail.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, in a Tuesday interview, downplayed the likelihood that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would ultimately face an effort by his conference to oust him as speaker. In an interview on NewsNation's "The Hill" on Tuesday, Good said he was committed to working on passing urgent legislation
California voters regularly tell pollsters that the housing crisis and homelessness are the most important issues to them. Tents on street corners is how most Californians understand the crisis, which is normally viewed as the domain of local politicians. The reality is that much of the funding to address homelessness or housing insecurity flows from the federal government. About 28% of the country's homeless population, or about 180,000 people, live in California. Nationally, homelessness grew...
CNN’s Abby Phillip speaks with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House Speaker emerita, about Ukraine aid.