Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also struggled to defend Republicans’ comments.

Unless the government reopens, the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children will run out of funding in one to two weeks.

The damning hot mic audio revealed Johnson refusing to deny Donald Trump is “unwell.”

Even Fox News pushed back on the House speaker’s claims.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal means the petition to vote on releasing the Epstein files will stay one vote short.

House Speaker Mike Johnson called the chamber into recess, with just a few hours to go until the U.S. government shuts down.

The tired punditry of shutdown politics isn’t adequate to the task of illustrating Republican villainy. Democrats will have to shout about it.

Arizona voters are set to skew the numbers in the House of Representatives in a special election.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised to defeat the House bill.

House Republicans aren’t done canonizing the MAGA activist.

Republicans are pulling out some truly pitiful statements after the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday book.

The House speaker is suddenly changing his tune after a bizarre defense of Trump on the Epstein case.

The House speaker is doing everything he can to avoid making Republicans vote on legislation that matters.

He really didn’t have a good answer.

The Epstein scandal is making an unpopular president even more unpopular, and there’s no sign that this will end anytime soon.

But now you can read all about it in a newspaper.

“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers?” asked Representative Thomas Massie. “Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”

House Republican leadership is rushing to provide Donald Trump cover in the Epstein files debacle.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has no plans to move forward on his own party’s bill on the Epstein files.

It’s a historic moment, alright—just not in the way the Republicans believe.