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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been planning to put different foreign aid packages for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on the floor of the House of Representatives, but hardliners within his caucus are already revolting.

While Johnson is planning to push ahead with giving foreign aid packages and up-or-down vote in the House, members of the House Freedom Caucus are already vowing to oppose the measures and are delivering scathing attacks on Johnson's leadership overall.

Democrats believe that a right-wing overreach by Republicans presents them with an opportunity to pick up legislature seats in deep-red Idaho.

Dozens of left-leaning candidates are seeking statewide office as part of a recruitment strategy that has put a Democrat on the ballot in every district in the state for the first time in at least 30 years. It follows the GOP supermajority's enactment of a strict abortion ban, limited LGBTQ+ rights and a proposal to jail librarians for circulating books they don't like, reported Politico.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have long expressed frustration with the antics of lawmakers such as Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), but have rarely done something concrete to stop them.

However, an anonymous House Republican tells Axios' Juliegrace Brufke that they may at last reach their breaking point should Greene's bid to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) succeed.

Someone in the Republican Party needs to tell Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to focus all her "bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy" away from her own party and instead focus it on Democrats, according to a Fox News contributor.

Greene, who is known for her "wild antics and equally harebrained conspiracy theories," is currently on a mission to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is walking a tightrope over Ukraine funding and reauthorizing the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Fox News contributor Liz Peek wrote.

Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial is crushing the Queens native's oldest dream of existing among New York City's upper crust, according to a New York Times columnist.

Trump's salacious trial — riddled with mocking reports of porn stars, hush money payments and star witnesses who've done time — puts a last nail in the coffin where the corpse of his elite status dream begins to rot, opines the New York-based journalist Elizabeth Spiers.

Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) revealed on Tuesday that he would join fringe lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in attempting to bring down Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Massie said that he signed on to co-sponsor Greene's motion to vacate the speaker's chair during a caucus meeting Tuesday.

Even before former President Donald Trump has secured himself a second term in the 2024 election, he has effectively carved out for himself a "fourth branch of government" from which to exercise a new and disturbing kind of political power, wrote Harlan Ullman for the Miami Herald.

This comes as the former president is facing the first of his four criminal trials, and political observers speculate how a potential conviction in this case could affect his standing among voters and among the Republican base specifically.

David Ellison, son of Republican megadonor Larry Ellison, has contributed $929,600 to support President Joe Biden's reelection, marking a significant cross-party donation.

The contribution, made in February, ties him with other major donors this quarter, such as attorney George Conway and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, CNBC reported this week.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) this week was named one of Time's 100 most influential people, sparking an almost immediate comparison to fascist and totalitarian leaders the magazine has similarly honored in the past.

Stefanik was quick to take a digital victory lap that saw her blasting press releases and social media with the news of her ranking among Time's most influential leaders.

Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy claims he suffered a gunshot wound while serving as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan — but newly revealed documents suggest he's been caught in a lie.

The decorated war veteran says he was hit, possibly by friendly fire, by a ricochet bullet during a 2012 firefight.

Former President Donald Trump has made his supposed inability to go to his son Barron's graduation a key part of his grievances with the timing of the Manhattan hush money trial — and Fox News has run with it.

But is it even true?

Prosecutors in Michigan this week indicted former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield on charges that he embezzled campaign donations for his personal benefit.

MLive reports that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel this week accused Chatfield of using donors' money on a wide range of improper expenses, including "a $32,000 Bahamian vacation, luxury purchases, a family trip to Universal Studios in Florida, groceries and paying off a $132,000 credit card balance."

The ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year by a handful of renegade Republicans triggered weeks of chaos and paralysis in Congress. But that's nothing to how bad it would be if House Speaker Mike Johnson gets the boot now, election forecaster Harry Enten told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday.

This comes as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is threatening to call such a vote if Johnson moves ahead with mounting pressure to vote on renewing defense aid to Ukraine — something he has resisted for weeks under threats from GOP hardliners, but is increasingly searching for a compromise on to break the impasse. Johnson has defied calls by Greene and her allies to resign.