House Passes Johnson’s Plan to Avert Shutdown in Bipartisan Vote
Speaker Mike Johnson was forced on Tuesday to rely on Democratic votes as the House passed legislation to keep federal funding flowing into early 2024, after scores of Republicans opposed his plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week. Almost all Democrats and a majority of Republicans overcame the opposition of […]
Opinion | I Grew Up in Mike Johnson’s District, Where Kindness Can Mask Cruelty
I don’t know Mike Johnson, the brand-new speaker of the House of Representatives, but I feel as if I do because we’re from the same neck of the woods. He’s from Shreveport, in Caddo Parish, La., where I was born and where one of my brothers died. Johnson’s district encompasses my childhood hometown, Gibsland, about […]