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Jan 15, 2024 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
DES MOINES, Iowa—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley appear to be locked in a battle for second place in the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses as former President Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead in the polls. Ms. Haley eclipsed Mr. DeSantis in a pair of polls released last week but continues to trail President Trump by 28 percentage points. The latest Iowa poll by the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom, and the last one before caucus night, was released on Jan.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson |Joseph Lord
The near-evenly divided House and Senate resume their two-year experiment back in Washington at the halfway point on Jan. 8. Democrats hold a two-seat majority in the Senate, while Republicans have just a six-seat advantage in the House—a combination that has thwarted progress on nearly every piece of significant legislation in the 118th Congress.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will take part in back-to-back town-hall-style meetings in Iowa on Jan. 4, just 11 days before the Iowa caucuses, the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest. The event, organized by CNN, features the two Republicans who have mounted the strongest challenge to former President Donald Trump, who continues to lead most national and Iowa polls by a wide margin.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson |Petr Svab |Sam Dorman
WASHINGTON—The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot will rock the political and legal landscape of the nation, responses to the ruling indicate. On the legal front, both sides of the political aisle are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to ultimately define what it means to wage an insurrection against the United States for the purposes of disqualification from office.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
The House of Representatives on Nov. 14 passed a stop-gap spending bill to continue government funding in two stages through Feb. 2. 209 Democrats joined 127 Republicans to pass the measure in a vote of 336-95. It was opposed by 93 Republicans and two Democrats. The bipartisan passage produced a major win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), whose predecessor was ousted after passing a similar bill in September.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
House Republicans aim to pass three bills this week, and President Joe Biden has already threatened to veto two of them. That may not concern House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has said he wants to pass conservative spending bills to increase his negotiating advantage with the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House. The three bills come in the middle of a battle between Democrats and Republicans—and even among Republicans—about how much to cut federal spending in 2024.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
House Republicans revoked the nomination of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for speaker of the House in a vote of no-confidence taken on Oct. 20, shortly after he continued to lose ground on a third ballot on the House floor. The 112 to 86 vote came amid intense frustration among House members over the events of the past three weeks. That began with the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Oct. 3 by a small group of Republicans aided by Democrats.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
The House of Representatives remains without a speaker as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) failed to receive a majority on a second ballot, cast on Oct. 18. Mr. Jordan received 199 Republican votes, one fewer than the previous ballot and 18 short of the number needed to elect him. Also, 22 Republicans refused to vote for Mr. Jordan, two more than on the previous ballot a day earlier, signaling that his already lumbering campaign is losing momentum.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
A fractured Republican conference will meet Oct. 11 to select their candidate for speaker of the House, even as many members remain angry over the ouster of former speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) barely a week ago. The 221 Republican representatives will also vote on potential structural changes to their conference, which threaten to deepen the divisions between them. Until a speaker is elected, the House is unable to enact legislation.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
gopusa.com | Lawrence Wilson
House Republicans met to discuss options for the election of a new House speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted in an unprecedented vote to vacate the chair. They plan to hold a speaker’s candidate forum on Oct. 10 and proceed with an election in the House on Oct. 11. At the GOP conference on Oct. 3, Mr. McCarthy announced that he would not seek reelection as speaker. After the meeting, he wrote on X, “I will not seek to run again for Speaker of the House.
