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WASHINGTON — Just weeks into his new job, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has learned a valuable, if painful, lesson: Being an uncompromising conservative hard-liner is much easier from the backbenches of the House than it is from the leadership suites. The stopgap spending bill he pushed through the House on Tuesday with overwhelming support from Democrats over the objections of a solid bloc of Republicans was a near-exact replica of the funding package he had opposed six weeks ago, when he...

Rep. Tenney votes to avoid government shutdown, cut spending Politics

SLAP FIGHT!

Avoiding a US Govt shutdown ensured that healthcare issues would remain unaddressed, at least for the remainder of 2023. Now that a CR is set that inattention will end.

Johnson says government would have to borrow $1.5 trillion to cover federal spending over next two quarters under current trajectory.

The new House Speaker, Mike Johnson, is proving to be no more effective than Kevin McCarthy, at least by the metrics Matt Gaetz claimed to care about.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to prevent a government shutdown after new Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to reach across the aisle to Democrats when hard-right

‘It may be that the gentlelady doesn’t know that there’s another body attached to the US Congress,’ Rep Rosa DeLauro says in MTG roast

A measure authored by new Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to fund the government through early next year, to avoid a shutdown, was opposed by Mother Lode Republican Congressman Tom McClintock.

It’s never too late to learn civics—even if you’re antagonizing other members of Congress on the House floor, apparently. Shortly after a vote on the House’s stopgap spending bill, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene got another awkward lesson about the U.S. political system.“My Democratic colleague across the aisle who is 80 years old and has been here over 30 years just said we’re on the verge of a shutdown,” Greene said, taking a jab at Conne...