#MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.
#Fox contributor: President #Biden put on the table #border solutions, #Republicans agreed with him and then walked away for political reasons. He should remind people that Republicans walked away to help #DonaldTrump
"The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week."
Opponents say the #Arizona ballot measure will do nothing to improve #border#security or prevent #asylum seekers from arriving. Instead, they say, it will replicate the paranoia & turmoil that #Latino & #immigrant communities experienced after Gov #JanBrewer signed #SB1070, a divisive state #immigration-enforcement #law passed by #Republicans in 2010 that came to be known as the “show me your papers law.” That law sparked years of protests & litigation, & has since been partially struck down.
WI’s AG filed charges against an aide & 2 attys who advised Trump over a meeting of #Republicans who claimed to be the state’s 2020 presidential electors even though Trump had lost the state.
The charges are the first in WI related to the meeting of electors. Prosecutors have separately charged Republicans who were involved in similar efforts in #Arizona, #Michigan, #Nevada & #Georgia.
>300 #House lawmakers were reimbursed ≥$5.2M for #food & #lodging while on official business in Washington last year under a new, #TaxpayerFunded prgm that doesn’t require receipts.
The prgm, which kicked off last yr after a #Republican-led House panel passed it, was intended to make it easier for lawmakers to maintain separate homes in DC & their home districts.
The prgm has only a few rules: Lawmakers cannot be repaid for principal or interest on their mortgages, they can only get reimbursement for days they’re actually working in or flying to DC, & they can’t ask for more than their actual expenses. They’re also subject to daily spending caps determined by the GSA. They are “strongly encouraged,” but not required, to keep #records of their #expenses, acc/to guidance issued by the #House Cmte on Admin.
The same rules apply to every member. But lawmakers’ reimbursements have varied widely, & bc the prgm doesn’t require #receipts or public #disclosure of what members are #expensing, #taxpayers have to take lawmakers’ word that they’re playing by the rules.
Of the 435 voting members of the #House, 319 members — 153 #Democrats & 166 #Republicans — received reimbursement for some food/lodging expenses last yr, + 3 delegates from #US territories. The other 116 members received no reimbursements….