It splits the deadlines for passing full-year appropriations bills: Jan. 19 for some federal agencies and Feb. 2 for others, creating two dates when there will be a risk of a partial government shutdown
The bill proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson is similar to the one that cost his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, his job
Federal agencies are making plans for a shutdown that would shutter government services and halt paychecks for millions of federal workers and military troops
The new speaker of the House is bringing anti-politics to the position and threatening to destroy all democratic pragmatism in Washington
Johnson’s early moves have confounded administration officials, particularly his strategy on aid to Israel
The new House speaker, a son of a firefighter, has extinguished the fire raging within the Republican caucus, but threatens to set national politics ablaze
European leaders focused on the order of the day, the Israel-Hamas war, and didn’t come back to the issue of Russia’s war in Ukraine after Zelenskiy’s videoconference
Progressive faith leaders expressed alarm at Johnson’s election, and his remarks evoking the Bible as saying authorities are chosen by God