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“Don’t do what McCarthy did”: Moderate GOP members urge Johnson not to deal with party’s far-right
Griffin Eckstein
The GOP isn't yet united on Johnson for speaker and some party members are asking him not to negotiate with MAGA
“Playing with fire”: Republican warns that ousting Speaker Mike Johnson would backfire on GOP
Marin Scotten
House Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican vote when Congress is sworn in later this week
It’s Elon Musk over MAGA: Donald Trump makes his pick
Heather Digby Parton
There is a reason Donald Trump misses his MVP down at Mar-a-Lago so much
Republicans quietly cut IRS funding by $20 billion in bill to avert government shutdown
Griffin Eckstein
The GOP assault on the revenue collecting agency's funding could exacerbate wait times and balloon the deficit
“Divorce is coming soon”: MAGA civil war erupts after Trump allies accuse Elon Musk of “censorship”
Griffin Eckstein
Trump ally Laura Loomer accused Musk of throttling accounts that criticized his call for immigrant worker visas
Conspiracy theory is the new normal: 2024 was the year QAnon went mainstream
Amanda Marcotte
The single biggest reason Trump won? The median voter ignores real news to consume endless disinformation
“People are starting to forget”: 9/11 health care funding stripped from budget deal
Marin Scotten
A bipartisan bill that would have provided health care for 9/11 first responders was excluded from the budget deal
Elon Musk can easily use Donald Trump’s greatest advantage against him
Amanda Marcotte
Trump isn't fooling anyone by saying Elon Musk's "not going to be president"
“Put on your big boy pants”: Democrats rediscover a will to fight with government shutdown battle
Amanda Marcotte
Democrats exploit the Elon Musk debacle to divide and demoralize Trump's coalition
“Who is in charge?”: Top Democrats criticize Musk’s role in government shutdown drama
Ashlie D. Stevens
Senator Bernie Sanders described Musk's involvement as "not democracy, that’s oligarchy"
“You wanna be speaker?”: Johnson jokes he offered Musk House leadership role
Griffin Eckstein
The speaker and Tesla CEO agreed that Johnson had "the hardest job in the world"
Democrats bail out Johnson, pass bill that could avert government shutdown
Griffin Eckstein
170 Republicans joined all but one Democrat to fund the federal government for just under three months
“One tweet and they run for the hills”: Republicans don’t know who’s in charge
Griffin Eckstein
Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and Elon Musk can't agree on how to fund the government
Elon Musk just killed Donald Trump’s honeymoon
Heather Digby Parton
We are seeing is an emerging crack in the GOP coalition
Trump-supported bill to avert government shutdown fails in House amid GOP revolt
Griffin Eckstein
The bill would have funded the federal government into March and suspended the debt ceiling for two years
“I’m gonna just sit back and sip my tea”: Democrats won’t save Johnson’s speakership
Griffin Eckstein
The top House Democrat has no intention to extend an olive branch to the potentially doomed speaker
“It’s clear who’s in charge”: House GOP scraps funding bill after Trump, Musk tirades
Alex Galbraith
Social media posts from Trump and Musk seemed to sink the emergency funding measure in the House
“This bill is a crime”: Musk throws social media fit over stopgap government funding effort
Alex Galbraith
The ill-defined member of Trump's administration railed against an emergency effort to fund the government
“Unhinged and unstable”: Nancy Pelosi hits back after Trump jokes about calling her the “B” word
Nicholas Liu
Trump's remarks were "just the usual projection of his own insanity," Pelosi's office says
“Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts
Norman Solomon
Nuclear arsenals are vastly more powerful today than during the Cold War — and the risk of apocalypse keeps growing
Republicans may need to ditch Donald Trump to save MAGA
Heather Digby Parton
The MAGA magic is starting to wear off — and Donald Trump knows it
GOP senator’s “discriminatory and vitriolic attack” shows Republicans weaponized anti-Muslim bigotry
Dean Obeidallah
At a hearing to combat hate, a GOP senator peddled hate against Muslims and Arab Americans
John Roberts’ MAGA conversion: How Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court in his image
Austin Sarat
The chief justice has ignored Trump’s worst behavior to advance an expansive conception of presidential power
Mike Johnson faces GOP rebellion if he presses ahead with a spending bill backed by Democrats
Nicholas Liu
The House speaker must decide whether to fund the government or try to please Donald Trump and his allies
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