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One of the first things you’ll see upon entering the ornate terminal at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station are gaggles of National Guard troops loitering about, clad in full tactical camo. Most look bored, a hand slung casually over the rifle they’re now authorized to carry, a suspicious eye on the …

House Speaker Mike Johnson continued to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, using misleading Republican talking points that insist that Democratic leadership is pushing to fund health care for undocumented immigrants. Johnson said today on CBS’ Face the Nation that Democrats “want to spend $1.5 trillion, and they want to …

Adelita Grijalva made history last week, becoming the first Latina woman elected to represent Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives. She won a special election for the seat previously occupied by her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March after serving over two decades in office. Despite …

Trump administration officials are perplexed, as many people are, by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused and trafficked scores of underage girls. The president …

It’s been two weeks since Team Trump prematurely began declaring victory in its efforts to quell the “MAGA rebellion” over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and this chapter of Donald Trump’s second presidency still has no end in sight. The White House’s big plan to change the …

Days after calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to be more transparent about the contents of the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House of Representatives on an early vacation to avoid doing exactly that. On Tuesday, the speaker announced that he would be ending the week early …

House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans broke with the Trump administration’s decision to keep the lid shut on the government’s files investigating convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein. Johnson called on the Department of Justice to release documents and information related to the probe into the disgraced financier, who was found …

The U.S. secretary of defense has threatened to send active-duty Marines into the streets of Los Angeles to confront protesters opposing the administration’s detention and deportation of immigrants. At least three prominent Republicans don’t seem concerned about potential overreach. “The [Department of Defense] is mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to …

As President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” heads to the Senate, Republicans are trying their hardest to sell voters on the prospect of deep cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs in order to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. The process has involved plenty of bold-faced lying …

Donald Trump‘s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, alleged without evidence that “no one will lose [Medicaid] coverage as a result” of the House’s proposed budget. House Speaker Mike Johnson similarly claimed “People will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so.” “There are …