I'm a wartime speaker in a real sense, Johnson told Varney. It's not the most enjoyable job in the world, but I do love what we're doing. I love the team I work with. We have a unified Republican Party. If we didn't, Stuart, we would not have delivered on all the things we have this year. There's much more ahead of us, and this team is excited about it.
His chronic ignorance looks less like a habit than a strategy a way to stay in the good graces of President Donald Trump, who rewards loyalty above all. In Trump's Washington, knowledge is dangerous. Knowing too much can force you to act, make you responsible, even put you at odds with the leader who prefers fealty to fact. So Johnson has mastered a subtler art: performative ignorance. I'm not aware does more than dodge a question it signals allegiance.
THE CHOICE IS CLEAR INITIATE THE NUCLEAR OPTION,' GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER, Trump said in a late-night social media post Thursday. Trump's sudden decision to assert himself in the now 31-day-long shutdown with his highly charged demand to end the filibuster is certain to set the Senate on edge. It could spur senators towards their own compromise or send the chamber spiralling towards a new sense of crisis. Or, it might be ignored.
The impending loss of SNAP benefits for tens of millions of Americans is front of mind right now, and Republicans are still playing the blame game. Friday marks the 31st day of the government shutdown, now the second-longest in American history. Meanwhile, during his daily press briefings at the Capitol, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has taken to speaking from a podium with a sign on it that reads "The Democrat Shutdown." Johnson was joined on Friday by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
We will always defend truth, we will always defend America, and we will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else's agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, said Roberts. I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either.
The committee's rare late-night meeting, scheduled for 1 a.m., comes as Republican leadership races to pass what Mr. Trump refers to as the 'big, beautiful bill' before their self-imposed Memorial Day deadline.