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U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), flanked by Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

GOP floats tax on worker benefits

Natalie Chandler
Trans rights activists take part in a protest. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Trump's anti-trans onslaught begins

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Arizona Democratic candidate for US Senate Ruben Gallego speaks during the Arizona Democratic Party Election Night at the Hilton Phoenix Resort at the Peak in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 5, 2024. (REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats help advance Laken Riley Act

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk during the annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner on October 17, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump's MAGA agenda already stalled

Heather Digby Parton
The TikTok app and logo are seen on a mobile device (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

TikTokers flock to Chinese alternative

Griffin Eckstein
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz walks up the House steps of the U.S. Capitol for the last votes of the week on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gaetz's absence draws House applause

Griffin Eckstein
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson departs a news conference on Capitol Hill on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Johnson narrowly wins speakership

Griffin Eckstein
Donald Trump listens as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a press conference at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on April 12, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump doesn't have the juice for Johnson

Heather Digby Parton
Protestors demonstrate on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

It's time to sue Congress

Norman Solomon
Rep.-elect Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) poses for a photograph on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on November 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Congress' youngest woman sees big shift

Griffin Eckstein
Donald Trump and Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP eyes new "voter suppression laws"

Griffin Eckstein
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Democrats get back into the fight

Amanda Marcotte
Haitian immigrants prepare to cross the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2021, from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The forgotten children

Bob Hennelly
Elon Musk and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elon Musk just killed Trump's honeymoon

Heather Digby Parton
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, brings boxing legend Thomas Hearns to the stage during a campaign rally on October 18, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump bashes bill to fund government

Alex Galbraith
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (C) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk whips votes against funding bill

Alex Galbraith
Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2024, after a Hong Kong court jailed 45 pro-democracy campaigners. (BASTIEN INZAURRALDE/AFP via Getty Images)

Pelosi hospitalized in Luxembourg

Griffin Eckstein
Mike Johnson and the Meta logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's Meta problem

Alix Fraser
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) speaks to reporters before going to a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Good celebrates do-nothing Congress

Alex Galbraith
U.S. Republican Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst speaks to the press after the Republican weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

GOP holding fire for a bigger battle?

Heather Digby Parton
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, August 22, 2024. (OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump makes the GOP touch the third rail

Heather Digby Parton
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) departs the Senate Chamber following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How Congress crushed free speech in 2024

Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds the gavel while checking the podium during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How GOP won: The gerrymander, again

David Daley
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) departs from a meeting with House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gaetz won't return to Congress next term

Griffin Eckstein
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