Author: Lauren Green, Washington Examiner

EXCLUSIVE — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised half a million dollars last weekend to combat a ballot measure backed by Democrats that could reshape Virginia‘s congressional map. Johnson headlined a rally on Saturday opposing the gerrymandering push alongside former GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin in Great Falls, Virginia. After the event, Johnson attended a private fundraiser,…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is calling on airlines to stop allowing members of Congress the privilege of skipping security lines until the Department of Homeland Security is fully funded. Johnson was asked during an appearance on Fox and Friends if he agreed with Delta Air Lines deciding to scrap the perk. The speaker said…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced legislation on Thursday requiring professional sports team owners to give local governments and investors a chance to buy their teams before relocating. Dubbed the Home Team Act, the bill would limit team owners from moving their franchise across state lines or into new metro areas…

House Republicans voted Wednesday to block lawmakers from forcing politically difficult votes demanding information from the Trump administration, shutting down a key oversight tool for the rest of the year. Republicans tucked language extending a ban on resolutions of inquiry into a procedural vote, bringing a bill to “beautify the District of Columbia” to the…

House Democrats moved Wednesday to force a vote on a plan to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security — excluding border patrol and immigration enforcement — escalating their standoff with Republicans during the shutdown. The effort, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and top appropriator Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), uses a discharge…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) plans to move forward with a clean extension for the federal government’s foreign spy powers amid threats of Iranian terrorist cells. Johnson announced Tuesday he plans to move forward with a clean extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, despite a push to attach a voter identification bill…

House Republican leaders are pushing for a second party-line reconciliation bill and plan to discuss it at their upcoming policy retreat in Doral, Florida, next week. Sources close to GOP leadership told the Washington Examiner that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is pursuing the effort. A second megabill reflecting the GOP’s tax and spending priorities has…

Republicans are splintering over immigration as backlash against the fatal shootings of anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota has moderates pushing for a “pathway to legal status” for millions of illegal immigrants— and hard-liners drawing a bright red line against anything resembling amnesty. Conservative elements within the party are up in arms over the suggestion that the…

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). The investigation comes after widespread fraud was reported in several Minnesota health services programs, with most of the defendants being of Somali descent. Trump has sought to tie Omar to the scandal, referring to her as “garbage,” and…