Politics
Johnson digs in against proxy voting, citing House’s ‘integrity’
Speaker Mike Johnson is digging in against allowing proxy voting for the House’s new parents, heightening a standoff with members of his own party that has frozen legislative action in the chamber. “While I understand the pure motivations of the few Republican proxy vote advocates, I simply cannot support the change they seek,” Johnson said in a Wednesday post on X…
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called her to discuss the possibility of allowing proxy voting only for new moms after President Trump appeared to back the Florida Republican in her efforts. Luna, who had led the fight against GOP leaders in the House to push for proxy voting for new…
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United Auto Workers (UAW) Shawn Fain stressed that there is an “excess capacity” in the auto industry within the United States amid President Trump’s tariffs and layoffs at certain manufacturers. Fain joined BLN’s “The Source” on Thursday, just a day after the Trump administration’s import tariffs went into place and following the news that Stellantis…
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Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) was confirmed Thursday as the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2025 gubernatorial race in Virginia. She is the lone Democrat running to be governor, according to the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA), which released a full list of candidates running in the 2025 primary races Thursday evening…
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