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Kevin McCarthy to leave Congress by year's end
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House Speaker Johnson is insisting on sweeping border security changes in a deal for Ukraine aid
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on November 25, 2023 shows President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaking during the International Summit 'Grain from Ukraine' in Kyiv. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. running out of money for Ukraine, could hinder fight against Russia, White House warns
FILE - A man uses plastic to cover a broken window in his apartment following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. On Monday, Dec. 4, the Biden Administration sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying that Kyiv's war effort to defend itself from Russia's invasion may grind to a halt without it. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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Indicted lawmaker Santos expelled from U.S. House
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Senate looks to speed ahead on temporary funding to avert government shutdown through the holidays
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters ahead of a crucial vote on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded at its current levels, a measure not heartily supported by the hard right wing of his party, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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U.S. House passes spending bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 14: (L-R) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) talk while waiting to speak during the March for Israel on the National Mall November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. The large pro-Israel gathering comes as the Israel-Hamas war enters its sixth week following the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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U.S. House Speaker Johnson floats two-step measure to avert government shutdown
FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan to avert a government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Minnesota justices appear skeptical that states should decide Trump’s eligibility for the ballot
(FILES) Former US President and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Pray Vote Stand summit at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC on September 15, 2023. While the stakes could hardly be higher for American democracy, voters are increasingly turned off by the apparently inevitable rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Joe Biden has joked about it, ignored it and suggested it makes him wise. A year out from the US presidential election, the issue of his age just won't go away. Donald Trump was impeached twice. He has been found liable in fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits. He is charged with 91 felonies, accused of recklessly endangering national security, and of conspiring to defraud the United States. Young US voters have been through graduations, new jobs and the end of Covid restrictions since the last presidential election, but next year's likely Trump-Biden rematch has left many Americans in their early 20s with an uneasy sense of deja vu. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden threatens to veto U.S. House Republicans’ Israel-only aid bill
U.S. President Joe Biden holds an event about American retirement economics in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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New Speaker Mike Johnson heads to White House to discuss Biden’s bid for Israel, Ukraine aid
On his first full day on the job, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., makes a statement to reporters about the mass shooting in Maine, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. He did not respond to questions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Day 20 with no House speaker as Republicans struggle and lower-level names reach for gavel
Former Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks with visitors after leaving the House chamber on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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Republican Jim Jordan keeps up floundering fight to be U.S. House Speaker
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 19: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) arrives at his office in the Rayburn House Office Building on October 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jordan (R-OH) failed again on Wednesday in the most recent vote to become Speaker of the House with another vote tentatively scheduled for today. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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House Republicans are mired in chaos after ousting McCarthy and rejecting Scalise. What’s next?
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, talks with reporters as House Republicans meet again behind closed doors to find a path to elect a new speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., dropped out of the race Thursday night, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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How $6 billion in Ukraine aid from the U.S. collapsed in a government funding bill despite big support in Congress
FILE - President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas carjacked by three armed attackers about a mile from Capitol
FILE - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, talks to a member of the media during a campaign event in San Antonio, May 4, 2022. Cuellar was carjacked late Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in Washington's Navy Yard area, about a mile from the U.S. Capitol, multiple media sources reported. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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U.S. government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pauses as he addresses reporters about efforts to pass appropriations bills and avert a looming government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. He is joined at right by House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Rep. Monica de la Cruz, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)