Mike Johnson (center), flanked by Reps. Steve Scalise (left) and Tom Emmer (right), departs a press conference. Johnson and his team are offering private reassurances to rattled rank-and-file Republicans that he didnât concede anything to conservatives. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Speaker Mike Johnsonâs grip on his fractious conference slipped this week after he struck a government
Johnson confronts biggest test yet: Whether to walk away from his own funding deal
February 27, 2024 by
McCarthy confronts a spending mess that will test his speakership
August 15, 2023 by
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has to clear a dozen spending bills, altogether worth over $1 trillion, with near-total unanimity in the GOP â votes that even his allies say he doesnât have right now. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Kevin McCarthyâs survival as speaker may depend on whether he pulls off a difficult summertime task: bridging the huge
McCarthy confronts bleak reality as conservatives undercut GOP agenda
August 14, 2023 by
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol July 11, 2src23. | Francis Chung/POLITICO The conservative fever thatâs plagued Speaker Kevin McCarthy for weeks is showing no signs of breaking. McCarthy and his leadership team returned to Washington this week planning to tee up the GOPâs biggest must-pass bills of the year
âYour Administration Shut It Downâ: Hawley Confronts Biden Official Over Adminâs Decision To Block Mineral Mining
June 8, 2023 by
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted a Biden official during a hearing Thursday over the administrationâs decision to block mineral mining. Jaelith Hall-Rivera, the deputy chief of state and private forestry at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was testifying before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources when Hawley began questioning her about the
House GOP confronts its 2023 rift: Impeachments
October 14, 2022 by
âI think thatâs a question for the conference,â Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who typically doesnât shy away from rhetorical bomb-throwing and just last year called for the president to resign, said of impeaching Biden in the next Congress. Talk like that is doing little to prevent some of the conferenceâs biggest Trump acolytes from charging…
President Joe Biden Confronts a Radically Different World Than When He Was Veep
November 20, 2020 by
America’s foreign entanglements are unnecessary. Joe Biden has a chance to end them.After taking the oath of office President Joe Biden may be tempted to resume policy as if it was January 20, 2017. But the nation and world with which he dealt as vice president no longer exist.The first challenge will be political. There…
President Trump Confronts NATO Free Riders
July 12, 2018 by
President Trumpâs visit to Brussels for the two-day NATO summit got off to an intense start. âItâs very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where weâre supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia,â President Trump […]
WATCH: Newt Gingrich Confronts Democrat on the Air: Melania Trump âIs the Only Immigrant Youâre Worried About!â
August 9, 2016 by
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called out a Democratic congressman who questioned how Melania Trump gained her legal immigration status to America. U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra first noted that her husband â Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump â hasnât disclosed his tax return information and then hit her immigration status. âWe donât yet know how […]
Black Police Officer Confronts BLM With Raw Honesty
July 11, 2016 by
An African-American police officer from Florida has laid bare his heart in a powerful way. Pundits have been talking non-stop since a new wave of sensationalized stories about so-called trigger happy cops hit the news last week. Brutal reality hits officer Jay Stalien in the face every single day and he poured out his heart […]
[WATCH] Chaos Ensues When Marine Confronts Bill Clinton About Benghazi
February 28, 2016 by
Michael Ingmire, uncle of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi, already gave them hell by responding to Hillary’s disgraceful lying denials the way average Americans do. âHillary Clinton is a serial liar. Hillary Clinton has a hard time maintaining a consistent level of truth and that was proven today and itâs been proven before⌠[…]