Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Monday that he plans to use an unusual maneuver to merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) after conservatives ground the House to a halt over the voter ID bill. Hard-line conservatives have said they would oppose any procedural rules that…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday as lawmakers are embroiled in a spending battle. Johnson on Monday unveiled plans to merge the SAVE America Act, a bill backed by President Trump that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration, with the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) after…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said President Trump will not veto the bipartisan housing bill after cancelling plans to sign the legislation last week. Johnson met with the president at the White House for two hours on Monday, urging him to sign the measure that aims to ensure more access to affordable housing nationwide. …
Speaker Johnson's plan to merge the SAVE America Act with the defense bill faced resistance from GOP holdouts demanding stronger Senate assurances.
President Trump, on Monday, went off on RINO Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and the RINOs blocking the SAVE America Act in the Senate, telling reporters that he doesn't want to sign any bill until it's passed. When asked about the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, Trump told reporters, "When I look at that bill, it's a bill, but when I look at the Save America Act, it's about saving America, and I'd like to have the Save America Act added on. The post WATCH: Trump Nukes “Trump Deranged” Lisa Murkowski for Opposing the SAVE America Act – Says Housing Bill is “So Unimportant Compared to SAVE America” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The hardline MAGA wing of the House Republican caucus has once again forced House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) into a difficult spot, one that has relegated his role to “something like a triage nurse,” Punchbowl News reported, despite being arguably the most powerful lawmaker in Washington and third in line to the presidency.Johnson ultimately caved Monday to a demand from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to attach the SAVE Act – President Donald Trump’s controversial voter ID bill – to the annual defense spending bill. While the SAVE Act has no path forward in the Senate according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Luna had threatened to stall House proceedings unless her demand was met.“Speaker Mike Johnson’s job these days is something like a triage nurse. His function almost every day in the Capitol is to stop the bleeding in the House Republican Conference,” Punchbowl News’ report reads.“Don’t get us wrong: Johnson’s play was creative. There’s very little chance that House GOP leaders would’ve been able to advance a rule without this move. But it does little to mask the larger internal problems that House Republicans have with their agenda for the rest of 2026.”Punchbowl News described Johnson’s decision to concede to Luna’s demand as “yet another Band-Aid” that, at most, “should keep the floor open for this week.” For Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), however, the move was a wasted effort to appease the speaker’s hard-right flank, and a fruitless one at that.“This really accomplishes nothing. The Senate has already moved to bring their own [defense spending] bill to the floor that doesn’t have this in it, they’ve made it clear they’re not going to take this up,” McGovern said, according to Punchbowl News.“I don’t know what Rep. Luna thinks. She’s accomplished nothing. … If we come to the floor tomorrow at noon and actually bring this up, then Luna was bought off, I guess, or this satisfied her. I don’t know how it would, because again this does nothing to force the Senate to accept this.”
Bill Maher did not suddenly become a conservative. That is what makes his recent comments to Vice President JD Vance so politically revealing.Maher is still Maher — a liberal comedian, secular critic of Christianity, supporter of abortion, and longtime enemy of the religious right. He is not about to show up at a Turning Point USA conference in a red cap. He is not quoting Milton Friedman at CPAC. He is not becoming a Baptist.Bill Maher is not moving right because Republicans suddenly became perfect. He is moving right because Democrats moved left into madness.Yet in a recent conversation with Vance, Maher said his 2028 vote is “in play.” He said he could imagine voting for Vance or Marco Rubio if Republicans nominated the right candidate.That should terrify Democrats.Maher does not represent the average American voter in every respect. But he represents something dangerous for Democrats: the liberal who still remembers what liberalism used to be. He remembers when Democrats imagined themselves as the party of free speech, civil liberties, working-class people, and common sense. He remembers when liberals mocked religious fundamentalists rather than replacing them with secular versions in HR departments, faculty lounges, and school boards.Maher’s point was not that Republicans have become irresistible. It was that Democrats have become repellent.That is the real story.For years, Democrats have comforted themselves with the idea that the country is divided over Donald Trump. Maher’s comments reveal a different problem. What happens when the choice is not Trump? What happens when the Republican nominee is Vance, Rubio, or someone else who can speak fluently about the failures of the left without carrying all of Trump’s baggage?Then, Democrats have to defend themselves. That is where things get difficult.Look at New York City.The city that once elected Rudy Giuliani after years of chaos and vowed never to forget 9/11 is becoming the showcase for democratic socialism and outright communism. Candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America just swept important Democratic primaries.RELATED: ‘Weak and pathetic’: Mamdani-backed radicals sweep Democratic establishment in New York’s electoral bloodbath Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThese candidates are not progressive in the old sense. They reject the assumptions that once made the Democratic Party nationally competitive. They talk as if capitalism is the enemy, policing is oppression, borders are immoral, and Israel is uniquely evil among nations. They embrace socialism, excuse anti-Semitism, and treat Western civilization as a crime scene.The old Democratic establishment used to understand that this was a problem. It knew America was not a socialist country. It knew most Americans did not want their cities run by activists. It knew Americans might debate the policies of Israel while still rejecting anti-Semitism.Now, the Democratic establishment mostly shrugs. Or worse, it congratulates the winners and pretends this is normal.It is not normal.It is not normal for open socialists to become the energy center of a major American political party. It is not normal for candidates surrounded by anti-Israel radicalism to be treated as the future. It is not normal for Jewish voters to be told, in effect, that their concerns about anti-Semitism are merely bad-faith efforts to silence criticism of Israel.That is one reason Maher’s discomfort matters. He is not a Christian Zionist or conservative evangelical. He is an irreverent liberal comedian who can see that something has gone wrong when the left cannot clearly distinguish between criticism of a government and hostility toward Jews as Jews.Anti-Semitism is not the only issue.The same problem appears in gender ideology. Americans are generally willing to be kind and decent to adults who identify as transgender. What they will not do is surrender reality.They do not want boys in girls’ sports. They do not want men in women’s prisons. They do not want children rushed into medical pathways that can alter their bodies permanently. They do not want schools hiding gender transitions from parents. They do not want bureaucrats punishing anyone who says male and female are real categories grounded in nature.Yet the Democratic Party has made this agenda a test of moral purity. Ordinary Americans who believe the obvious — that men are not women — are treated as bigots.This is political insanity. It is also moral bullying.The left first demanded tolerance. Then it demanded affirmation. Then it demanded participation. Now it demands that Americans deny what they can see with their own eyes. If they refuse, they are told they are hateful.That kind of politics creates backlash.
Bill Maher dismisses backlash over his JD Vance interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher," saying critics wouldn't be happy unless he punched Vance.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was confident his likely successor, Andy Burnham, would maintain the UK’s commitment to defense, as he laid out plans to invest an extra £15 billion ($20 billion) to modernize the British military.