BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
The House may be headed for chaos — again.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) new bid to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent shockwaves through Washington on Friday, infuriating many Republicans who are scrambling to unite ahead of November's elections, while threatening to throw the House — and especially the GOP conference — into a state of spring mayhem. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
House Republicans are lashing out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over her surprise bid to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power, warning that it threatens to divide an already warring GOP conference ahead of elections when the House is up for grabs. Greene told reporters she is not bringing her motion to vacate resolution to the floor immediately — "I don't have a timeline" — but the mere idea of removing another Speaker has infuriated many fellow Republicans, who are aiming their fire at Greene. |
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BY MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
Greene filed the motion to vacate — the same procedural move that led to the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — as the House voted to pass a sprawling spending package to stave off a partial government shutdown by Friday's midnight deadline. The chamber later passed the measure in a bipartisan fashion, but it crossed the finish line with more votes from Democrats than Republicans, angering conservatives. |
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House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) was noncommittal Friday when asked if he would vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) following an introduction of a motion to vacate. "Well, he serves the pleasure of 218 members, I can't make a defense for him as Speaker," Good said when asked on "The Hill on NewsNation" if Johnson deserves to be removed from the leadership role. |
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The White House on Friday took a swipe at the latest effort from House Republicans to remove the Speaker, even as a top spokesperson said the president would not get involved in the drama. "We've always been very clear. We are not going to get in the middle of what's going on in House leadership," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing. "The president's been very clear, he's going to continue to focus on the American people." |
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Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he would resign from Congress before his term is up, shrinking the GOP's already razor-thin majority in the House. Gallagher, a four-term lawmaker who is considered a rising star within the GOP, announced last month he would not seek reelection. But Friday, he said he would leave the House on April 19. |
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| President Biden's reelection campaign has dubbed former President Trump "Broke Don," taking a strategy out of Trump's playbook that his political rivals know all too well.
Trump has used nicknames — from "Little Marco" to "Crooked Hillary" to "Lyin' Ted" — to put down a variety of opponents. For much of 2020, Biden's moniker, courtesy of Trump, was "Sleepy Joe." |
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| Two Republicans will battle it out in a May runoff to claim former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) House seat, which has been open since December. County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux will face off against state legislator Vince Fong in the May 21 special election in California's 20th District. |
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Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she's been diagnosed with cancer, asking the public for "time, space, and privacy" amid a media frenzy surrounding her absence from public appearances. "It's been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family," Kate, sitting on a bench outdoors, said Friday in a video posted on social media. |
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OPINION | The left considers prosecuting Donald Trump a guarantee that he will never be president again, while the MAGA faithful think the former commander in chief could ride a pity vote back into office. Which side is right? It turns out, neither. |
OPINION | Progressives in Congress just reintroduced a bill to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justices to from nine to 13. The intention is to minimize the influence of politics on the court— a concern shared by most Americans, who doubt the court would be fair in making decisions affecting the 2024 election. |
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BY VIVIAN YEE, IYAD ABUHEWEILA, ABU BAKR BASHIR AND AMEERA HAROUDA |
With hand tools and bare hands, families and rescuers continue to search broken buildings for missing friends and relatives. |
BY ANN M. SIMMONS, THOMAS GROVE, VIVIAN SALAMA AND WARREN P. STROBEL |
The U.S. passed a secret warning to Russia earlier this month of a plot to target large crowds ahead of an attack that killed at least 60 people and injured over 145 at a concert hall outside of Moscow, according to U.S. officials. |
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR AND TARA COPP |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with a budget of more than $800 billion and the ability to buy millions of weapons and pieces of equipment every year, the Pentagon sometimes can find a few dollars in the couch cushions. Or, make that $300 million. |
Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced Friday that she has been diagnosed with cancer, after several months in which health issues have repeatedly put the royal family in the spotlight. Here are the moments that have absorbed royal-watchers. |
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