Jim Jordan fundraising in Kentucky next month for Thomas Massie.

Massie & Jordan are close… Massie is also a co sponsor of the motion to vacate Mike Johnson’s speakership.

Donald Payne, six-term congressman from New Jersey, dies at 65

newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/do…

“Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out,” one of the GOP lawmakers who spoke to Comer told CNN. “He is fed up.”

NEW: James Comer is “hoping Jesus comes so he can get out' of the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry

The blame game is heating up behind the scenes as House GOP grapples with how to end their probe without impeaching the president

w/Melanie Zanona

cnn.com/2024/04/24/pol…

Asked Mitt Romney about the hush money allegations against Trump.

“I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump's character, and so far as I know you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.'

From a phone call with Hakeem Jeffries after Iran attacked Israel to prayer to deciding what he learned from intel briefings was more important than pleasing his right wing: how Mike Johnson came around on Ukraine aid

W/⁦Melanie Zanona⁩ ⁦Manu Raju⁩ cnn.com/2024/04/21/pol…

In addition to this intel briefing from Burns, Johnson — soon after becoming speaker — also heard from former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who communicated the urgent need to approve Ukraine aid.

MUCH more on Johnson’s evolution on Ukraine: cnn.com/2024/04/21/pol…

Patrick McHenry not holding back >>

During intense huddle on floor btwn Johnson & hardliners this week, Al Green started the pledge of allegiance.

The group stopped, turned to front of room, put their hands over their heart & recited the pledge, per GOP member. Then they turned back around and resumed arguing.

New — How Speaker Johnson navigated the warring wings in the House GOP to get Ukraine aid passed. Details on his conversations with Jeffries, classified briefings and the pressure campaign on both sides.

“He was torn between trying to save his job and do the right thing,” McCaul…

Final breakdown on Ukraine vote

101 Republicans voted for it.
112 Republicans voted against

210 Democrats voted for it
0 Democrats voted against it

Top three GOP leaders -- Johnson, Scalise and Emmer -- voted for it.
Elise Stefanik, conference chair, voted NO.

Today on Inside Politics, an exasperated Rep. Dusty Johnson compares some of his fellow Republicans to 'pyromaniacs who want to burn it down' and says those who refuse to back Speaker Johnson 'give a certain amount of power' to Democrats.

NEWS: GOP Rep. Paul Gosar has signed on to the motion to vacate the speakership, becoming the third member to do so.

He was huddled on the floor earlier today with Greene & Massie, the other two co-sponsors. They haven't taken steps to force vote yet tho.

Rep. Warren Davidson tells me & Juliegrace Brufke: “There’s probably a clear consensus that next Congress, (Johnson) won’t be speaker.”

Asked if he supports motion to vacate, Davidson says: “I can’t say.”

Speaker Mike Johnson announces he will NOT change the motion to vacate tool, something his hardliners warned him firmly against

GAETZ 👀

“My hope was that MTV would be an elixir that only required 1 dose for effectiveness. But there are some therapies that require more than one dose. I hope that is not the case with MTV but we will administer the elixir as many times as is necessary to save the country”

New: Right-wing House lawmakers implored Speaker Johnson to give them assurances that he would not raise the threshold on the motion to vacate, and the speaker would not commit, leaving many of the lawmakers fuming and some even saying this was their red line

Thread:

Lawler calls for Massie, Roy & Norman to resign or be removed from the House Rules Committee

HILL POWER 🔥

There isn’t enough coffee (or celcius) on the Capitol campus for all the news today ⁦Melanie Zanona⁩ ⁦Lauren Fox⁩

A number of conservatives are currently meeting in Speaker Johnson’s office, after they publicly railed against his plan to keep foreign aid & border security delinked.

Rep. Ralph Norman, member of Rules Committee, told me he’s planning to inform Johnson he’s a NO on the rule.