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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has shared "Committee Cliff Notes" -- a daunting preview of what House Republican committees are up to this week.

The Senate passed an aid package the House would likely pass. But House Speaker Mike Johnson has not agreed to schedule a vote, maybe out of fealty to Trump.

The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he supported funding for U.S.-allied Pacific Island nations as a way to counter the influence of China, and would push to include them in any supplemental security aid bill. "That's such a critical part of our countering the malign influence of China, with the island nations that they're buying off, as you know, one by one," Representative Michael McCaul said at meeting with journalists sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. The Federated States of Micronesia, Marsha...

The US and its allies need a strategy for countering the malign influence of authoritarian rivals in the Western Hemisphere.