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White House officials are hinting they may submit to demands by GOP politicians for a closure of the border’s parole loophole that has been used by hundreds of thousands of economic migrants. 

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ handling of the southern border was “intentionally” an “abject failure.”

Democrats and their media allies are pressuring Republican leaders to endorse a $14 billion slush fund that would hide President Joe Biden’s migration flood during the 2024 election campaign.

During Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) derided the Biden administration for its lackluster handling of border security at the U.S.-Mexico border. Johnson accused the Biden administration of rolling out the welcome mat for illegal

“We’ve delivered common sense legislation that will secure our border, but it’s been sitting on [Sen.] Chuck Schumer’s desk for seven months,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), told a press conference along the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, accompanied by a group of 64 other Republican legislators, visited the small Texas border city of Eagle Pass to receive a security briefing on the latest surge that saw more than 70,000 migrants cross the Rio Grande into the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector in December. Although the pace of migrant crossings has slowed in recent days, on Wednesday, Johnson made clear the responsibility for the record-breaking crossings at the border falls directly on the President’s failed policies.

A press conference held by U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was interrupted by a group of migrants crossing the Rio Grande. The group of five migrants, including two children, crossed the border river within yards of the press conference and under the watch of the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol chief patrol agent.

With just hours to go before the largest yet congressional visit arrives at the border in the small Texas town of Eagle Pass, a source within Customs and Border Protection tells Breitbart Texas what they will witness pales in comparison to the migrant surge and grossly overcrowded facilities experienced during the month of December. A nearby soft-sided processing facility designed to accommodate 1,000 migrants that has routinely held nearly 6,000 during the month is now holding less than 500.

GOP legislators want the White House to shut down its new “parole” migration pathway — but White House officials involved in the border negotiations are rejecting any restrictions.

Congress faces a chaotic schedule when it returns in the new year. Here are four of the more pressing issues when Congress returns in two weeks.

Republicans ripped Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot in Maine as an affront to Democracy. 

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “State of the Race,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that Israel and Ukraine funding are important and border security needs to be tightened, but House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is “catering to the

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action to stop the ongoing inflow of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border. 

Derrick Anderson, U.S. House candidate for Virginia’s Seventh District, earned House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) endorsement on Thursday.

A new report details how the swampiest, most establishment members of Congress have the highest average median incomes in their districts.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), one of the leaders behind the fight to reform a deep state surveillance law, on Friday said Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) strategy was more “appeasement” than leadership.

The House passed a defense bill that contains a deep state surveillance authorization, robbing lawmakers of the opportunity to reform FISA.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by a vote of 221 to 212.

Hunter Biden’s claim Joe Biden was “not financially” involved contradicts the House Speaker’s list of evidence that suggests otherwise.

GOP legislators want President Joe Biden to help negotiate a year-end emergency bill that would end his open-borders policy — but Democrats want to keep him out of the top-level talks. 

Extending FISA until the early months of 2024 without reform will effectively extend surveillance activities into 2025, Rep. Andy Harris (R-FL) told Breitbart News.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will come up empty in his latest swing through the U.S. Capitol.

The House will vote on formally opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) decided late Monday night to withdraw two FISA bills from consideration as House Republicans try to reauthorize and potentially reform a controversial deep state surveillance law.

Zelensky’s chief of staff urged U.S. lawmakers to approve billions more in aid to Ukraine, warning they may lose the war without more money.

Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has accused Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) of getting “physically aggressive” with her.

James Biden reportedly refused to appear before the House impeachment inquiry to discuss Joe Biden’s involvement in the family business.

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “bozo” whose claim that he misspoke when he said that Republicans were blurring out the faces of rioters from the January 6 Capitol footage to prevent prosecution by the Justice Department.

The vote will be a test for House Republicans, who hold a slight majority over Democrats. The measure will need nearly all Republican support.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday reportedly tabled a move to slip a deep state reauthorization into a defense bill.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who served as speaker pro tempore in October, said Tuesday he will not seek an 11th term in Congress. 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will soon unveil the committee’s proposal to rein in a controversial deep-state surveillance program that will expire by the end of the year.

The White House warned Monday that U.S. funds for Ukraine will run dry by the end of the year, bluntly declaring a failure by Congress to approve new support would “kneecap” Kyiv and hinder efforts to deliver more lethal aid from U.S. reserves.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said on this week’s broadcast of “CBS Sunday Morning” that if Republicans win a majority in Congress in the 2024 election, the United States will be under threat.

Sources familiar with the matter say Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY), an establishment Republican congressman from New York, told colleagues he will vote for Democrat President Joe Biden over Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump next year, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. LaLota’s office, meanwhile, fervently denied the allegations.