When is that coalition majority going to take charge in the House? Inquiring minds want to know.
“Government shutdown looms as new speaker struggles to control hardliners”
“New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
The Louisiana conservative, who was just lifted from obscurity to second in line to the presidency, may soon find himself in the position that doomed his predecessor Rep. Kevin McCarthy — needing Democratic votes to keep the government open.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/politics/mike-johnson-shutdown-house-gop-government-budget
“Russian drone unsuccessfully trying to drop munitions on a Ukrainian jet ski crossing the waters in the Kherson frontline.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1723982231025127816