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...Last year, Democrats failed to come to McCarthy’s defence....
...did: Although there was no indication that Johnson actually worked in concert with the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, all 210 Democrats who were present in Washington on Saturday backed the bill...
...He was initially rejected for an internship in the office of Bill Thomas, the local Republican member of Congress, who would later become a mentor....
...The Ukraine aid was part of a $95bn package of national security bills that also includes $26bn for Israel and $8bn for the Indo-Pacific region, as well as a bill that could result in TikTok being banned...
...Like his predecessor Kevin McCarthy, Johnson could now face a backlash from rightwing members of his party....
...Still, the two remain at odds on many issues, notably the surveillance bill and Ukraine aid....
...Burchett was one of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy as Speaker last month. McCarthy denied hitting Burchett....
...McCarthy....
...The Senate later voted 88-9 on Saturday night to approve the bill, and President Joe Biden signed it shortly before the midnight deadline....
...Matt Gaetz, the ultra-Maga lawmaker who led the move on Tuesday to eject Kevin McCarthy as Republican Speaker, cited an alleged secret side deal McCarthy made with Joe Biden to keep funding Ukraine....
...Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor running for president in 2024 who managed Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings in 1998, said that despite a “lot of smoke” the impeachment inquiry “seems premature...
...Funding for several parts of the federal government is set to run out on January 19, and for others on February 2, unless the sides can hammer out more detailed budget bills....
...Before him, Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, in an indication of heightened tensions between Republicans and Democrats....
...As a quasi-Western, The Settlers also feels, for much of its length, like the closest that cinema has yet come to an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s prairie nightmare novel Blood Meridian....
...Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker, said a bill to raise the US debt ceiling could be put to a vote as early as next week, offering hope that the White House and Congress would strike a deal to...
...The official said they “fully expect” McCarthy to bring forward a separate Ukraine funding bill “shortly”....
...A few years later, one of its founding members, a southern governor named Bill Clinton, was in the White House....
...They think the latest proposal is little changed from the package agreed between Biden and Johnson’s predecessor Kevin McCarthy....
...Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker, said a bill to raise the US debt ceiling could be put to a vote as early as next week, offering hope that the White House and Congress will strike a deal to...
...Congress must also pass a spending bill by November 17 or the US will face a government shutdown....
...Lawmakers must also pass a spending bill by November 17 to avoid a government shutdown....
...“We will need a Ukraine funding bill to pass soon and it’s imperative that Speaker McCarthy keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine to ensure that happens,” the official said....
...And McCarthy has very limited room for manoeuvre....
...He declared it to be out of order — and then secretly signed the bill into law....
...In the end, McCarthy relied on Democrats’ support to get the bill over the line....
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