It should be shocking to every Republican elected official who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and who declares ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has formally challenged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to debate the Republicans’ budget blueprint on the floor of the lower chamber. In a letter ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday to engage in a debate over the policy implications of Republican budget plans. "Over the weekend, the Senate ...

Anna Paulina Luna, said she’d come to an alternative agreement with Speaker Mike Johnson, to expand an old practice of “vote pairing.” Here’s the basic idea: If a lawmaker wants to vote ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has yet to appoint members to the House’s independent ethics board, leaving the office unable to open new investigations—even though Democrats have named ...

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) accepted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) challenge to debate the House Republicans‘ budget resolution. On Tuesday, Jeffries formally requested ...

Pete Aguilar (Calif.), the head of the House Democratic Caucus, said Democrats won’t participate in the “vote pairing” strategy advanced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a way to kill a ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House GOP leaders gave remarks Tuesday morning as Republicans in both chambers wrestled over a budget blueprint that will advance President Trump’s legislative ...

Some House Republicans want cuts to the deficit in the Senate-passed plan. Speaker Mike Johnson met Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump and House Republicans holding out against ...