All posts tagged "House Of Representatives"

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), not President Donald Trump, will hold the power to sabotage a narrow midterm outcome, a political analyst warned.

The Atlantic's conservative columnist David Frum, who was previously former President George W. Bush's speechwriter, made the case in a Saturday episode on "The Jim Acosta Show," telling the former CNN White House correspondent that Trump "will need Mike Johnson actively to cooperate" if control of the House comes down to a handful of seats.

Frum argued that Trump's power is "visibly ebbing" as voters feel the pain at the pump. But he cautioned against reading too much into bleak polling for Republicans. He said GOP-leaning voters are less likely to answer pollsters, and he advised adding "a point or two" to the Republican number in any race....

Two MAGA lawmakers got into a heated exchange on Thursday during a closed-door meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson in the fallout over a bipartisan veterans bill, according to reports.

Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) reportedly screamed at Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and told her not to interrupt him inside the Speaker’s ceremonial office off the House floor just after Luna and Reps. Max Miller (R-OH), Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) voted with Democrats to recommit the bill to committee, Punchbowl News reported.

The move "would’ve let the minority win a major procedural vote," and "GOP leaders were able to flip Spartz — they’re always able to do that — to win the procedural vote, but then they yanked the bill," according to Punchbowl News....

One looming threat to President Donald Trump that has House Republicans scrambling, a political analyst said Thursday morning.

Commentator Molly Jong-Fast took to BlueSky to share a Semafor report she argued showcases one of Trump’s top concerns should Republicans lose the House in the midterm elections.

“Trump,” Jong-Fast wrote, is “really really worried about being investigated.”...

Democratic political strategist James Carville sounded reluctantly sympathetic as he declared that one of the GOP's top leaders is "dead" and losing power.

Carville was reacting to a clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) defending Trump's shocking "I don't think about Americans' financial situations" comment from earlier in the week.

"I don't much care for Mike Johnson. We're both from the same state, different parts. Our politics are really different," Carville said in the latest episode of The Jim Acosta Show, before confessing that, "At some point, I feel sorry for the guy."...

Two more Republicans sided with Democrats and broke ranks on Thursday to back the House's Iran war powers vote and challenge President Donald Trump's military operation in the Middle East ahead of midterms, according to reports.

It was the third failure for the resolution to end the war in Iran with a 212-212 vote, The Hill reported. Three Republicans joined Democrats to vote for the measure in the lower chamber, where a tie means the resolution failed. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) split from his own party with a "no" vote.

For the first time, Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) rebuked President Donald Trump's military operation, Congressional reporter for Politico Meredith Lee Hill wrote on X. Trump foe Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) also voted yes for the resolution....

The relationship between Republican Party representatives in the House and Senate has never been worse, according to various insiders.

Unnamed GOP lawmakers from both the House and Senate made their thoughts clear on the divisions currently undermining the party. A fix for the Department of Homeland Security freeze pitched by the Senate was trashed by the House, with a boiling point reached, according to NOTUS. Insiders say the divide has only worsened over the last few months, with reps from the upper and lower chambers making clear their thoughts on the tension.

An anonymous House Republican said, "The Senate clearly, like transparently, has zero respect for the House at all. There’s this idea that they are far superior to us intellectually, that they understand issues better than we do. The Senate sees the House as a bunch of sort of barbarians or Philistines, and they’re the enlightened ones."...