Former Fiscal Conservative Mike Johnson Considering Scheme to Expand Earmarks
Speaker Mike Johnson is considering granting free-spending establishment Republicans and Democrats one of the top items on their wish list.
Speaker Mike Johnson is considering granting free-spending establishment Republicans and Democrats one of the top items on their wish list.
The Democrats’ foreign aid bill pushed by House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) includes no curbs on the White House’s many migration programs — but does offer at least $481 million to help Democrats pull more economic migrants into American communities and workplaces.
Biden’s steamroll of Johnson is a sore reminder of how Republicans often decline to use their capacity to push conservative policies popular with the base, perhaps fearing they will lose reelection. Democrats, in contrast, often use their power without qualms.
During an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) declared House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) speakership over on the heels of the passage of a package of foreign aid bills for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he would vote to table any motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) because he advanced a foreign aid package with separate bills to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was a “profile in courage” for bringing foreign aid bills to the House floor.
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) revealed plans to introduce legislation prohibiting the “display of foreign nations’ flags” in the House of Representatives after Democrats celebrated the passage of a $61 billion foreign aid package to Ukraine. Prior to the bill’s passage,
America’s borders extend across the Atlantic Ocean and deep into Eastern Europe, geographically challenged Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) asserted from the House floor Saturday before the House passed a $61 billion aid bill to Ukraine.
Reps. Byron Donalds and Chip Roy slammed Speaker Johnson for violating the Hastert Rule in passing the $60 billion Ukraine aid bill.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was “personally” grateful to “Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track” after Johnson shepherded a $61 billion Ukraine aid package through the House Saturday.
Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrats painted a surreal scene on the House floor Saturday as legislators passed a $61 billion bill to further Ukraine’s war effort and Democrats waved Ukraine flags in celebration.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reversed his months-long pledge to never advance foreign aid without first securing America’s border.
“Mike Johnson has handed the speaker’s gavel over to the Democrats,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said Saturday.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said he has “never seen a bigger flip-flop in politics” than he has with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Donald Trump expressed appreciation in a signed note to the D.C. Young Republicans Club for their exposing a never Trumper inside Speaker Johnson’s office.
Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson is joining with the Democrat minority to pass a supplemental spending package of foreign aid without the will or consent of the Republican House majority elected by the people of our country.
The House of Representatives debates bills to fund the war in Ukraine as well as military aid to Israel and Taiwan that House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democrats are looking to pass on Saturday, April 20.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to force President Joe Biden’s priority of Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Record” that his bill for foreign aid was necessary because there is a “Biblical admonition to stand with Israel.”
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) said Monday on CNN’s “OutFront” that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had “backbone” for advancing foreign aid funding in separate bills, which did not include border security funding as many in his caucus preferred.
A spending bill backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) includes hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer money for border patrol agents in Ukraine as illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border remains at record levels.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Friday said that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) move to oust then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has turned the House into a “Lord of the Flies”-type situation.
Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) said he would be “open” to backing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to vacate if she makes it privileged.
WASHINGTON, DC –House Democrats bragged on Friday after helping pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) rule opposed by hardline conservatives that unlocks votes on foreign aid bills.
In an unprecedented move, Speaker Mike Johnson worked with House Democrats to force Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced he would join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
In a stunning historical development, Democrats seized upon a Republican surrender to take control of the agenda of the House floor.
The Biden administration on Friday formally endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) scheme to fund Ukraine’s border defense.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) made history Thursday night just before midnight by essentially surrendering Republican majority control to Democrats.
Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a weakened hand in legislation negotiations because Republicans ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) came out Thursday in opposition to the current rules on the motion to vacate that threatens to end his speakership, lamenting he does not have the votes to change the rules at this time.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reminded globalists on Capitol Hill pushing foreign aid that no one speaks for him but himself.
The House Freedom Caucus said that the path toward securing the border goes through killing Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) made an explosive allegation Thursday as some House Republicans fight to change House rules to protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption, emails obtained by Breitbart News show.
Donald Trump Jr. blasted Speaker Mike Johnson for his reversal on Ukraine funding, saying Republicans unbothered by it are “not our friends.”
Rep. Thomas Massie said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is preparing to pass a rule for the foreign aid package using Democrats.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to a supplemental funding bill for Ukraine that would require members of Congress who vote “in favor” to enlist in the Ukrainian military.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation to ban the government from purchasing Americans’ private data from data brokers, which is considered a run around the Fourth Amendment.
The bills in the House’s foreign aid package, which will be up for a vote Saturday, would appropriate a combined $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, with a lion’s share of $60.84 billion for Ukraine.