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☆ Congressional Leaders Strike Deal to Fund Government Into Early March
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In reaching the agreement, House Speaker Mike Johnson risks triggering a backlash from House Republicans who are itching for another fight. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a new stopgap spending bill that would extend government funding into March, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) sticks to his plan to defy the most brass-knuckled budget hawks in his party in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. The government has been running on short-term spending laws, known as continuing resolutions, or CRs, since the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, as lawmakers continued to negotiate full-year funding.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Kent Nishimura Organizations: House Republicans, Getty, WASHINGTON, Congressional, CRs

☆ House Republicans say they will re-subpoena Hunter Biden in coming weeks
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

House Republicans said Sunday that they intend to issue new subpoenas for President Joe Biden's son Hunter in the coming weeks after his lawyers agreed to comply with a "proper" subpoena if it was requested. Hunter Biden in December agreed to give public testimony but refused a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed doors, sending House Republicans into a fury. House Republicans have been investigating the president's son's foreign business dealings, claiming with little concrete evidence that President Joe Biden unlawfully benefitted from them. The Biden family and the White House have denied any allegations of wrongdoing. The Hunter Biden investigation is part of a broader impeachment inquiry into the president, which is one of several impeachment probes that House Republicans are currently leading.

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☆ Congressional Leaders Unveil Stopgap Bill to Head Off Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Congressional leaders unveiled stopgap legislation on Sunday to avert a partial government shutdown, teeing up a race to pass the bipartisan spending deal into law before a deadline at the end of the week. The bill, which came out of a spending deal negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, would temporarily extend funding for some federal agencies until March 1 and for others through March 8. It would keep the government funded at its current spending levels, without any policy changes or conditions. In a sign that Democrats were preparing to muster the bulk of the votes to pass the bill, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, signaled his backing of the bill on Sunday night. He wrote to his caucus that he was “in strong support of the effort to keep the appropriations process moving forward and avoid a disruptive partial government shutdown.”

Persons: Mike Johnson, Chuck Schumer, Johnson, —, Republicans —, Kevin McCarthy, Hakeem Jeffries Organizations: Republicans Locations: New York

WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders have reached an agreement on a short-term spending deal that would avert a government shutdown in the next few weeks, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The deal would keep the government funded until March, buying legislators more time to craft longer-term, agency-specific spending bills, following the agreement last weekend to set the overall spending level for fiscal year 2024 at $1.59 trillion. Speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold a call with fellow House Republicans at 8 p.m. Sunday to discuss spending negotiations. Several hard-right Republicans have objected to the top-line spending deal he previously cut with Senate Democrats and have urged Johnson to go back on it, though he said Friday that the agreement remains intact. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats praised the top-line spending agreement after it was announced last weekend, even as they acknowledged that a short-term bill would be needed to buy more time to negotiate.

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☆ Congressional leaders reach agreement to keep government funded into March
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Haley Talbot | Kristin Wilson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Congressional leaders have come to an agreement on a two-tranche short-term funding bill to keep the government funded into March, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The new continuing resolution will fund the government through March 1 and March 8, respectively. The agreement comes just before the first funding deadline of January 19. The second government funding deadline was February 2. House Republicans will have a conference call Sunday night to discuss the continuing resolution, the source told CNN.

Organizations: CNN, Congressional, Republicans

☆ Hunter Biden agrees to deposition, GOP chairs say contempt resolution on track until a date is set
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"We will not tolerate any additional stunts or delay from Hunter Biden," said House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a joint statement. Hunter Biden's surprising offer to appear for a private deposition came two days after Comer and Jordan's panels passed resolutions urging the House to hold him in contempt. But, "If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition," Lowell wrote. "We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden's behalf." Hunter Biden is currently facing criminal charges in two federal courts.

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☆ If You Can't Beat 'em, Impeach 'em
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

Republicans want President Joe Biden out of office. And they've taken the clashes to an unprecedented new level: If you can't beat 'em, impeach 'em. "Secretary Mayorkas has brazenly refused to enforce the laws passed by Congress that knowingly made our country less safe. But Justice did not prosecute three other Republicans – White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and former Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino – whom the panel referred for legal action. "They're struggling to come up with the votes to impeach President Biden.

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LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden, the last surviving son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty to nine tax-related charges during his arraignment in federal court on Thursday. Follow along for live updatesThe arraignment came just over a month after Hunter Biden was indicted in the Central District of California on allegations that he failed to pay his taxes. That charge, which federal authorities have used as a catch-all charge against domestic extremists, is facing court challenges. On Wednesday, Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance at a circus-like hearing on the day that Republicans formally recommended that the House hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for testimony. Hunter Biden has said he would testify publicly, but House Republicans have demanded that he testify behind closed doors.

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One could practically see the temper tantrum that was sure to materialize from hard-line conservative House members when over the weekend House Speaker Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to back a top-line funding total key to preventing a government shutdown. At a closed-door GOP House caucus meeting Wednesday morning, Johnson was skewered by the far-right flank of his party, who scoffed at the funding deal. “Mike Johnson doesn’t work for Chuck Schumer and the White House. Johnson, who has garnered respect from his far-right colleagues as an outspoken Christian conservative, surely knew the deal with Schumer would irk hard-liners. Nor does there appear to be an appetite for another wrenching and divisive battle for yet another speaker, especially as House Republicans seek to present a united political front in this critical election year.

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☆ Days from government shutdown, Speaker Johnson may need short-term spending bill he previously opposed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Senate Republicans repeatedly said this week that a short-term spending bill may be necessary to keep the government open, a harsh reality for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is balancing a looming shutdown deadline with the demands of hardline Republicans. The last temporary spending bill Congress passed, in November, established a laddered schedule of funding deadlines, the first on Jan. 19 and the other on Feb. 2. Meanwhile, eyes are on Johnson to follow through on the hardline Republican demands he was elected to champion. If not, he could meet the same fate as his predecessor, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who was ousted in part for conceding to Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. While following through on the hardline demands would earn Johnson points with some House Republicans, it makes negotiating with Democrats harder, adding time to budget talks that he does not have.

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U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the hostage situation in Gaza during a meeting about fentanyl in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Washington, U.S., November 21, 2023. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke with President Joe Biden about border security Wednesday, according to Johnson spokesman Raj Shah. "Speaker Johnson spoke with President Biden today," Shah said in a statement. A senior Biden administration official said the White House has not closed the door to an in-person meeting between Biden and Johnson, but no such meeting has been scheduled. Congress must pass some spending bills by Jan. 19 and others by Feb. 2 to avoid a government shut down.

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☆ House panels approve Hunter Biden contempt finding after president's son crashes hearing
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Two Republican-led House committees passed resolutions Wednesday recommending that Hunter Biden be found in contempt of Congress for refusing to be deposed behind closed doors as part of an impeachment probe of his father, President Joe Biden. If the House finds Hunter Biden in contempt, it can then refer the matter to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. The committee previously issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden, demanding that he appear for a non-public deposition for the impeachment inquiry. "I'm looking at you, Hunter Biden, as I'm speaking to you," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said shortly after the president's son sat down. "I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now and go straight to jail."

Persons: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Abbe Lowell, Biden, Lowell, Nancy Mace Organizations: Capitol, Republican, Department of Justice, Republicans, Rayburn Locations: Washington , U.S

☆ House Republicans are considering a 3rd impeachment push just days before a partial government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewHouse Republicans are plowing ahead toward a partial government shutdown amid conservative grumbling about Speaker Mike Johnson's dealmaking abilities. At the same time, the party is already juggling two potential impeachment pushes. The first potential shutdown would be on Jan. 19, covering roughly 20% of the federal government, per The Post. The top Republican's words are also a great reminder of why this current impeachment push is unlikely to go anywhere. AdvertisementEven if an official is impeached, some Senate Republicans have previously expressed unease about how commonplace impeachment is becoming.

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☆ Everything you need to know about Republicans moving forward on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

House Republicans are rallying around a push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. On Wednesday, House Republicans are set to consider the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. As Homeland Security secretary, Mayorkas oversees a vast agency that includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Homeland Security Department notes that for all these reasons apprehending a migrant on the watchlist is extremely rare. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement that there is simply "no valid basis" to impeach Mayorkas.

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☆ House Republicans recommend Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for refusing a subpoena
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-08 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, makes a statement to the press outside the U.S. Capitol about testifying publicly to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. House committees released reports Monday recommending that Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress over what they called his "flagrant defiance" of a subpoena related to the impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden "must be held accountable for his unlawful actions," said reports from the House Judiciary and Oversight committees. Republicans initiated contempt proceedings in December, after Hunter Biden refused to sit for a closed-door deposition with congressional investigators looking into corruption allegations against the Democratic president and his family. Biden had instead offered to testify publicly before Congress, but Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., rejected the proposal.

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☆ Congress could punt Ukraine aid to 2024, snarl government funding talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-13 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I would stay here indefinitely, but I don't know that all our colleagues will be able to do that," Speaker Johnson said at a Wall Street Journal conference on Monday. A small but vocal group of hardline House Republicans nearly shut down the government over their opposition to $6 billion of Ukraine aid included in the federal budget. Hours before a government shutdown deadline of Oct. 1, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to strip out the Ukraine aid to pass a bill to keep the government open. If Ukraine funding talks get delayed to 2024 and become a pawn in the coming budget negotiations, Speaker Johnson could be at risk of meeting the same fate McCarthy did. Johnson already faces an uphill budget battle, without the added burden of Ukraine aid talks.

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☆ Republicans Take Hard Line on Border as Ukraine Vote in Senate Looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Siobhan Hughes | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

House Speaker Mike Johnson describes the border situation as an unsustainable catastrophe. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) Johnson said in a letter to the White House that “supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws,” and pointed to House Republicans’ H.R. 2 immigration bill as a starting point. That bill passed the GOP-led House in May with no Democratic support and never got a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Drew Angerer, Johnson, Republicans ’ H.R Organizations: Getty, WASHINGTON —, Democrats, Russia, Republicans, GOP, Democratic Locations: Ukraine

☆ Congress Takes on the EV Mandate
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: EV dealers ask Biden where they're supposed to put the glut. Images: AP/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyHouse Republicans have teed up a vote this week on legislation to block President Biden’s back-door electric-vehicle mandate. Democrats are spinning the legislation as an attack on public health, innovation and free markets. The Environmental Protection Agency “is not imposing an EV mandate,” says a memo from Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee opposing the GOP legislation. But the EPA in April proposed tailpipe emissions standards for greenhouse gases that would effectively require that electric vehicles make up two-thirds of car sales in 2032.

Persons: Biden, they're, Mark Kelly, Biden’s, ” Organizations: Republicans, Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Commerce, GOP

☆ GOP Sees Skulduggery in Hunter Biden Paying His Father Back for Truck
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Annie Linskey | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hunter Biden and President Biden in Washington earlier this year. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Associated PressWASHINGTON— Hunter Biden paid his father, Joe Biden, three installments totaling a little more than $4,000 in 2018 from a business account that held funds from his Chinese business dealings, according to documents released by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. While House Republicans said the money transfers link President Biden, who wasn’t in office at the time, to his son’s business activity in China, Democrats said they merely showed Hunter Biden reimbursing his father for some payments his father was making on a 2018 Ford F-150 Raptor that Hunter Biden was using.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Biden, Andrew Harnik, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden, Joe Biden Organizations: Associated Press WASHINGTON, Republicans, Ford Locations: Washington, China

☆ Speaker Mike Johnson frets that high schoolers increasingly identify as LGBTQ in fundraising email: 'We have much to repent for'
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Speaker Mike Johnson is fretting about the growing rate of LGBTQ identification among young people. He lamented that high school students increasingly identify as "something other than straight." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIn a fundraising email sent on Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson lamented that growing numbers of young people are identifying as LGBTQ. "1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight," Johnson declared in the email, a copy of which was first obtained by Punchbowl News.

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☆ Liz Cheney says she’ll ‘do whatever I have to do’ to stop Trump as she considers third-party bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Piper Hudspethblackburn | Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Tuesday that she’s committed to doing what’s necessary to stop former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House, as she continues to mull a third-party presidential run in 2024. Throughout her book, Cheney detailed how she saw her Republican colleagues fall in line to support his claims of election fraud following the 2020 election. In one instance, Cheney recalls GOP members reluctantly signing their names on electoral vote objection sheets for the states Republicans were contesting. Cheney has split with the Republican Party during previous elections. She also crossed party lines to stump for two moderate Democrats in competitive House races last year.

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☆ Liz Cheney says some Freedom Caucus members were 'upset' when she tweeted a photo of her father, Dick Cheney, wearing a mask at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Liz Cheney in her new book said some in the Freedom Caucus frowned on a personal June 2020 tweet. Cheney in the tweet featured her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, wearing a mask. Mask-wearing became a polarizing subject among conservatives even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . But as former Rep. Liz Cheney writes in her new book, "Oath and Honor," some members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus were upset when she tweeted out a photo of her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, wearing a mask.

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☆ Biden impeachment inquiry vote expected next week, House Republican leaders say
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

House Republican leaders expect to vote next week to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, they said Tuesday. Even if the House were ultimately to vote to impeach Biden after an inquiry, the Democratic-controlled Senate would not vote to remove him from office. The real risk of a House impeachment is that it could distract the White House and put the president on defense ahead of an election year. The subpoenas are "illegitimate," the White House argues, since the House has not voted to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry. "The Republican House Majority has so far refused to take" that step, wrote White House counsel Richard Sauber in a letter Friday to House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

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☆ Special election to replace ex-Rep. George Santos set for Feb. 13
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The special election to fill expelled Rep. George Santos' House seat will be Feb. 13, New York Gov. Until then, House Republicans will be down a vote, leaving them with an even narrower majority in the chamber than usual. "As Governor, I have the solemn responsibility to call a special election to ensure the voters of Long Island and Queens once again have representation in Congress," Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement. The expulsion resolution was championed by a bloc of Santos' fellow New York Republicans. A bloc of Santos' fellow New York Republicans championed the expulsion resolution.

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☆ Ukraine’s US lifeline is hanging by a thinning thread
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In a grave blow to its prospects, Ukraine aid has now been embroiled by Republicans in a separate imbroglio over immigration. While Ukraine’s survival is at stake, so is the reputation of the United States as a global leader. Johnson may struggle to retain his tenuous hold on his job if he uses Democratic votes to pass a Ukraine funding package. The Ukraine aid package is now caught in the most intractable US political issue — immigration. “We are at a moment in history.”But a group of Republican senators who normally back Ukraine aid signaled Monday they couldn’t move forward without immigration changes attached to the measure.

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