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Mike Johnson

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Tina Nguyen • May 22, 2024

Johnson’s Israel Pincer Movement

The speaker has cleverly, and perhaps cynically, turned a crusade against antisemitism into an opportunity to drive a wedge through House Democrats—and isolate enemies to his right, too.
Tina Nguyen • May 15, 2024
Johnson’s Courthouse Campaign
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The perpetually embattled House Speaker has been hitting the road to flatter Trump, secure the support of pro-Israel groups, and flex his fundraising agility as another potential leadership battle looms.
Tina Nguyen • May 8, 2024
Johnson’s Rules for Radicals
Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Chip Roy, R-Texas
The once-sleepy Rules Committee, previously a glorified rubber stamp for the House speaker, has instead become an unlikely flashpoint in the G.O.P.’s ongoing civil war.
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Tina Nguyen • April 24, 2024
Battle Hymn of the Republicans
House hardliners are fuming, once again, after Mike Johnson jammed Ukraine funding through Congress, received CNN’s blessing, and called M.T.G.’s bluff. Do they have any cards left to play?
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Tina Nguyen • April 17, 2024
The Greene Mile
Scenes from the latest House Republican mutiny-in-progress.
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Tina Nguyen • March 27, 2024
Johnson Melancholia
Republican hardliners, outraged over yet another vote in which they were sidelined, are slowly capitulating to the reality that their motion-to-vacate threat has lost its oomph—and that Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t speaking for them anymore.
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Tina Nguyen • March 20, 2024
Lee’s Rebellion & Senate TikTok Gymnastics
Fresh intel on the latest micro-dramas roiling Capitol Hill: How Republicans are working through their feelings about a TikTok ban, and the hardliner plot to intervene in Johnson’s budget legislation blitzkrieg.
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Julia Ioffe • March 13, 2024
Ukraine on the Brink
Running low on ammunition and soldiers, and with U.S. aid held hostage by politics, Ukraine is struggling to withstand the Russian siege. But the outcome of the war isn’t written in stone—yet. If it can hold on until 2025, when more military capacity will finally come online, Ukraine might not win back all its territory, but it might very well not lose.
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Tara Palmeri • February 29, 2024
No Labels Schadenfreude & Johnson’s Secret Society
News and notes on the anxieties, murmurs, and insights circulating through this town, including No Labels’ big vote and Mike Johnson’s burgeoning in-crowd.
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Tina Nguyen • February 7, 2024
The Johnson Piñata
The embattled House Speaker is enduring the lion’s share of Republican finger-pointing for yesterday’s humiliating, double-barreled legislative defeat. But as usual, there’s plenty of blame to go around.