Tag: Johnson
Johnson Rules Out an Aggressive Plan to Cut Medicaid as G.O.P. Moderates Waver
The Republican speaker’s decision underscored the resistance in his party to politically painful reductions to the program, and drew a backlash from t [...]
Johnson Reaches Agreement to Kill Proxy Voting Proposal in the House
Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back after the speaker offered a [...]
Trump Supports Proxy Voting for New Parents in Congress, a Blow to Johnson
The president’s comment was a rare instance in which he and House Speaker Mike Johnson were not on the same side of an issue.
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Johnson, Battling Proxy Voting for Parents, Exposes Weak Hold on House Republicans
The Republican speaker, who has mostly wielded power by relying on the threat of retribution from President Trump, has chosen an institutional fight i [...]
Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents
The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow ne [...]
Johnson Moves to Block a Bill Allowing New Parents in the House to Vote by Proxy
It was not clear whether the speaker would be able to peel off enough Republicans to prevent the measure from coming up because a majority of House me [...]
Trump and Johnson Push a Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert a Shutdown
Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around [...]
How Johnson, Who Put His Job at Risk to Save Ukraine Aid, Flipped for Trump
Many Republicans have made a reversal on Russia and Ukraine, falling in line behind President Trump. No turnabout has been more striking than that of [...]
Johnson Grasps for Republican Votes to Pass Budget Plan
Speaker Mike Johnson pressed ahead with plans for a Tuesday night vote on the House G.O.P. budget resolution even as threatened defections piled up.
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Boris Johnson backs Ukraine-US minerals deal
Joshua NevettPolitical reporterJames WaterhouseUkraine correspondentBBCFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to s [...]
Trump May Name Alice Johnson to Be ‘Pardon Czar’
Alice Marie Johnson was serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction when the president commuted her sentence in 2018. Since then, she has [...]
Johnson UK’s most damaging PM, says Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf
Joshua NevettPolitical reporterBoris Johnson will go down as "one of the most damaging prime minsters", says Reform UK chairmanHistory will judge Bori [...]
Johnson Joins the Trump Entourage, Shrinking the Role of House Speaker
In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing [...]
FDA approves Johnson & Johnson nasal spray Spravato for depression
This photo provided by Janssen Global Services shows Spravato nasal spray.Janssen Global Services via APThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ap [...]
Johnson Installs Crawford on Intelligence Panel, Pulling It Closer to Trump
The speaker replaced a Republican who had criticized the president-elect and broken with him on key issues, and who had drawn the ire and suspicion of [...]