By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers in Georgia on Thursday approved a new map of U.S. House of Representatives districts for the 2024 election that maintains their current 9-5 advantage while creating a court-ordered majority-Black district west of Atlanta. In order to preserve Republicans’ statewide advantage, however, lawmakers dismantled a heavily minority district represented … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s margin for error in getting Republican priorities through the House is getting slimmer, complicating future votes and magnifying the ability of individual lawmakers to force concessions. Republicans had just a 222-213 margin before Rep. George Santos of New York was expelled in a broad, bipartisan vote a week … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden is willing to negotiate with opposition Republicans on U.S. border security in an effort to secure more aid for Ukraine, but not to being dictated to by an extreme wing of the party, a senior aide said on Thursday. “He is open to negotiate. What he is not open … Read more
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is one of the few major pieces of legislation that the U.S. Congress passes every year, a practice started in 1961. The legislation governs everything from pay raises for service members and purchases of ships and aircraft to policies such as support … Read more
Former President Donald Trump attended the trial Thursday in the $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against him and watched intently as an accounting expert for his defense said the case against him and his company did not have any merit, while a state appeals court halted a ruling that could be disastrous for his company … Read more
CNN announced Thursday it will host Republican presidential candidate debates before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary next month — throwing a wrench into a process that thus far has been managed exclusively by the Republican National Committee. The respective debates, set for Jan. 10 in Des Moines and Jan. 21 just outside Manchester, … Read more
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate leaders vowed on Thursday to keep trying to reach an agreement to provide billions of dollars in new security aid to Ukraine, but faced uncertainty about doing so quickly after Republicans blocked a sweeping foreign security assistance bill. Senate Republicans voted unanimously on Wednesday to block the … Read more
The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley claimed during the Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday that watching TikTok made people “17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas” every 30 minutes. “We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all and let me tell you why,” Haley said. “For every 30 minutes that someone watches … Read more
Republicans in the US House on Thursday formally censured the New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional office building. Related: Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy to resign from Congress at end of year A resolution passed a vote on Wednesday, 216-201 with one Democrat, Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, a … Read more
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement that he would resign from Congress at the end of the year throws his own political future — and the fates of vulnerable California Republicans — into murky territory. His resignation comes as a disappointment, but not a surprise, to his loyal supporters in Congress. McCarthy is well-liked in his Central … Read more