View as Webpage For the second week in a row, the United States House of Representatives has no speaker–and no progress toward funding the government beyond mid-November, providing new aid to allies at war in Europe and the Middle East, or anything else. House Republicans headed into the weekend after a fruitless, embarrassing effort to […]

View as Webpage It was never a matter of if—only when. Kevin McCarthy sealed his fate back in January, when he agreed to allow a single member of the House of Representatives to file a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair. That he did so in order to “win” the gavel on a 15th vote […]

View as Webpage Wow. Hours before triggering a completely preventable and pointless government shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally relented to reality and put a short-term funding bill without cuts and far-right policies on the floor of the House, which passed it easily with 335 bipartisan votes. The Senate followed suit, with White House support, and […]