Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff Richard Guidice is resigning after the end of the month, the mayor’s office announced Thursday in its biggest personnel shakeup yet. Guidice’s departure on April 1 will come less than a year after the longtime City Hall veteran was tapped by Johnson, then mayor-elect, to help steer the fledgling […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s life is going to get harder with Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican, abruptly leaving Congress.Getty Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican, abruptly announced that he’s leaving Congress next week. House Speaker Mike Johnson will only be able to lose two votes. Johnson’s razor-thin majority will likely get even smaller in […]
WASHINGTON — House conservatives are furious about the government funding bill negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson that sailed through Congress last week, calling it a betrayal of Republican promises to cut spending and reshape the federal budget. But in a twist, this time they aren’t threatening to overthrow the man in charge of cutting those […]
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg fired back Friday at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) criticism that President Biden’s State of the Union address was “hyperpartisan” and “vitriolic.” During a Friday morning appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Buttigieg said some of Johnson’s comments were “literally false,” ticking off bipartisan legislation that Biden passed through Congress and […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is eager to escape the chaos of a two-seat House majority. And he’s leaning on Donald Trump for help. During a February meeting with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson and his House GOP campaigns chief briefed Trump on several upcoming primary races, making the case that certain extreme candidates could blow […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday marked Presidents’ Day by sharing a picture of himself with former President Donald Trump on X, formerly Twitter. One part of the snap stood out to many people online. Johnson was stood beneath an Exit sign. “Just had a great meeting with President @realdonaldtrump this Presidents’ Day,” Johnson […]
Fresh off the victory of passing $60 billion for Ukraine through the Senate with 70 votes, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) didn’t waste any time in pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring it up for a vote in the House. And he rejected Johnson’s demand that the Senate accept tough border reforms to […]
WASHINGTON — Centrist Rep. Susan Wild, a Pennsylvania Democrat and one of the Republicans’ top targets in the 2024 election, said in an interview Friday she is leaning toward voting to save Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., if conservative hard-liners force a vote to oust him from power. Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has personally […]
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday again expressed frustration with Chicago’s handling of the migrant crisis, saying he was “deeply concerned” about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to evict asylum-seekers from city-run shelters after 60 days and to hold off on opening new shelters. Johnson earlier this month delayed enforcement of his eviction plan when freezing weather […]
Several years ago, when many Democratic strategists were demanding that the party embrace the tenets of the Christian Right in order to win over the salt of the earth, Real Americans (whom they insisted were essential to a legitimate governing majority), the media briefly reported on some of their more extreme rituals. They looked at […]
House Speaker Johnson’s (R-La.) funding strategy is threatening to stretch the U.S military as it responds to heightened tensions with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. Johnson’s proposal last month for a stopgap funding bill for the Defense Department, set to expire on Feb. 2, means Pentagon spending is frozen at the previous […]
Pandemic-era UK education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson has criticised Boris Johnson’s “panic” decision to close schools in January 2021. In a witness statement to the official UK Covid-19 Inquiry, the Tory ex-Cabinet minister said he considered resigning over the matter. Mr Williamson, who has not given evidence in person but provided a statement for Module […]