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The House could take up the proposal as early as Tuesday. With growing opposition from House Republicans, it will need Democrats’ backing. Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to avert a government [...]

The measure would extend funding for some agencies through late January, and for others until early February. It omits funding for Ukraine or Israel. Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday pitched [...]

Worried about alienating critical blocs of voters, House Republicans from competitive districts are digging in against using spending bills for abortion and contraception restrictions. Two days after Republicans across the [...]

Party divisions forced Republicans to abandon two of their own spending measures this week as they toiled to agree on a stopgap spending bill to avert a shutdown next Saturday. [...]

Speaker Mike Johnson is facing many of the same challenges his predecessor did as he looks for a way to avoid a government shutdown that will be acceptable to his [...]

Speaker Mike Johnson is facing many of the same challenges his predecessor did as he looks for a way to avoid a government shutdown that will be acceptable to his [...]

La legislación planteó un dilema para los demócratas que buscaban apoyar a Israel, quienes fueron reacios a aceptar un proyecto de ley que omite la ayuda a Ucrania y atenta [...]

The Republican-led House approved $14.3 billion for Israel's war with Hamas, tying the aid to spending cuts. The Senate plans to craft its own bill that will include aid for [...]

The Republican-led House approved a $14.3 billion measure for Israel’s war with Hamas, tying the aid to spending cuts. The Senate does not plan to take it up. A divided [...]

By splitting money for Israel's war effort from aid to Ukraine and coupling it with spending cuts, Speaker Mike Johnson has put the House on a collision course with the [...]

By splitting money for Israel’s war effort from aid to Ukraine and coupling it with spending cuts, Speaker Mike Johnson has put the House on a collision course with the [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Catie Edmondson The newly elected House speaker, who has opposed continued funding for Kyiv, is now insisting on separating it from aid to Israel, leaving its [...]

The newly elected House speaker, who has opposed continued funding for Kyiv, is now insisting on separating it from aid to Israel, leaving its fate uncertain. Representative Mike Johnson's election [...]

The newly installed Republican speaker opposed the bill to avert a government shutdown and has been against continued U.S. funding for Ukraine. Now it is his job to accomplish both. [...]

The newly installed Republican speaker opposed the bill to avert a government shutdown and has been against continued U.S. funding for Ukraine. Now it is his job to accomplish both. [...]

Republicans turned to a little-known Louisiana lawmaker who led congressional efforts to overturn the 2020 election, ending a weekslong deadlock that paralyzed the House. Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana won [...]

After a tumultuous struggle that put their divisions on display, Republicans turned to a little-known social conservative from Louisiana who led congressional efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Representative Mike [...]

The selection of the ultraconservative and low-profile Louisianian capped a topsy-turvy day and gave Republicans hope of ending the weekslong deadlock that has paralyzed the House. House Republicans chose and [...]

Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a lawyer who is the former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, is a favorite of the party’s right wing. An evangelical Christian who [...]

Mr. Emmer, the No. 3 Republican in the House, has pitched himself as a unity candidate, but some hard-right Trump supporters have said he was not supportive enough of the [...]

La situación ha paralizado la Cámara, la cual tiene asuntos pendientes de gran importancia, como la inminente fecha límite del 17 de noviembre para aprobar el presupuesto federal. El cargo [...]

The lawmakers vying for the job include veterans of the House, committee chairmen, a top member of Republican leadership and a sophomore. Nine Republicans have announced that they will run [...]

The lawmakers vying for the job include veterans of the House, committee chairmen, a top member of Republican leadership and a sophomore. Over half a dozen Republicans have announced that [...]

Thousands of menacing calls, pressure from a marquee Fox News show and even death threats. Lawmakers opposing Representative Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker have been inundated with an outpouring of [...]

Facing intimidation for opposing Jim Jordan's speakership candidacy, mainstream Republicans are refusing to back down, defying their reputation for caving in the face of party clashes. Shortly after Representative Nick [...]

Facing intimidation for opposing Jim Jordan’s speakership candidacy, mainstream Republicans are refusing to back down, defying their reputation for caving in the face of party clashes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/20/us/house-speaker-vote-jim-jordan Shortly after Representative [...]

The number of Republicans opposing him grew as a bipartisan group discussed taking action to empower the temporary speaker to conduct legislative business on the House floor. Representative Jim Jordan, [...]

The number of Republicans opposing him grew as a bipartisan group discussed taking action to empower the temporary speaker to conduct legislative business on the House floor. Representative Jim Jordan, [...]

As Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio hunts for the votes to be elected speaker, he is working to persuade mainstream Republicans that he could put aside his penchant for right-wing [...]

The No. 2 Republican had worked to win over holdouts but could not find a path to uniting his fractious party. Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana withdrew on Thursday from [...]

The holdouts who refuse to back the No. 2 Republican, the party’s nominee, reflect the many competing groups inside the divided G.O.P. conference. Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. [...]

Byline: Catie Edmondson and Ekaterina Bodyagina The resistance of tiny Grossenhain to a new arms plant shows how the government's plan for a more assertive foreign policy is struggling to [...]

When government leaders in Saxony learned that Rheinmetall, Germany’s most prominent arms manufacturer, was considering building a new munitions factory in the former East German state, they saw visions of [...]

After a historic vote to remove the speaker, lawmakers departed Washington on Tuesday night with the House of Representatives in chaos and no clear sense of who might lead it. [...]

With the House leaderless after a right-wing faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the speakership on Tuesday, Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will temporarily take up the gavel as interim [...]

The resistance of tiny Grossenhain to a new arms plant shows how the government's plan for a more assertive foreign policy is struggling to gain traction. When government leaders in [...]

A handful of far-right Republicans broke with their party and voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his leadership post. He said he would not run again. The House voted on [...]

With the House leaderless after a right-wing faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the speakership on Tuesday, Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will temporarily take up the gavel as interim [...]

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s slender majority and the number of right-wing rebels in favor of ousting him mean that he has little chance of survival without at least some support from [...]

The move forces a vote within days on whether to keep the speaker in his post, a challenge that only two other House speakers have faced in the history of [...]

In a stunning reversal, Speaker Kevin McCarthy pushed through a bill with Democratic votes to temporarily keep the government open. President Biden signed it late Saturday. Congress narrowly averted a [...]

In a stunning reversal, Speaker Kevin McCarthy pushed through a bill with Democratic votes to temporarily keep the government open. President Biden signed it late Saturday. Congress narrowly averted a [...]

More than 20 hard-right Republicans defied Speaker Kevin McCarthy and defeated their own party's bill, making a lapse in funding at midnight on Saturday all but certain. Hard-line conservatives on [...]

More than 20 hard-right Republicans defied Speaker Kevin McCarthy and defeated their own party’s bill, making a lapse in funding at midnight on Saturday all but certain. Hard-line conservatives on [...]

The Republican speaker is working to turn the shutdown fight into a border security battle. Some lawmakers in both parties say they are open to including immigration provisions in an [...]

The Republican speaker is working to turn the shutdown fight into a border security battle. Some lawmakers in both parties say they are open to including border provisions in an [...]

With a Sept. 30 deadline looming, hard-right House Republicans have formed a wall of opposition to a temporary measure to fund the government. Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday was toiling [...]

Little more than three days before a government shutdown, the Republican-led House spent the day adding hard-right proposals to a series of doomed spending bills. The Republican-led House voted on [...]

With a Sept. 30 deadline looming, hard-right House Republicans have formed a wall of opposition to a temporary measure to fund the government. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/us/government-shutdown Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday was [...]

An agreement between Senate Republicans and Democrats would keep agencies open through mid-November and provide billions in aid for Ukraine and disaster relief. But House Republicans are likely to balk. [...]