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House Speaker Mike Johnson brushed aside criticism from Democrats that he is holding off the swearing in of a new Democratic House member out of spite, noting that he’s only following past precedent set by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). He also pushed back on Democratic allegations that his alleged “refusal” to swear in the new [...]

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat in Africa, Troy Fitrell, will retire from the State Department next month, and Jonathan Pratt, the Bureau of African Affairs deputy assistant secretary, will take his position.“After a long and distinguished career, the Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs Senior Bureau Official Ambassador Troy Fitrell is retiring as planned,” [...]

As the federal government shutdown approaches its fourth week, pressure is mounting inside the Democratic Party to find a way out of the impasse that has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees unpaid and key social programs at risk of disruption. The shutdown — now widely referred to by critics as the “Schumer Shutdown” [...]