On Thursday’s Front Page: New House Speaker Mike Johnson has been elevated as one of the least-experienced lawmakers ever to serve in the role, countries asking for America’s help are questioning the Pentagon’s ability to meet their needs, and more.
House Republicans celebrated a return to legislating Wednesday after electing Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana to serve as speaker and ending weeks of bitter intraparty fighting over leadership that paralyzed the chamber.
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Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was a virtual unknown before he burst onto the national scene as House speaker.
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Animosity between Israel and other global players boiled over Wednesday as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked” by allegations that he tried to justify Hamas’ slaughter of civilians, while other prominent world leaders declared that the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group is a collection of freedom fighters, not a terrorist organization.
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President Biden, in his prime-time address to the nation this month, called America the “arsenal of democracy,” evoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s message to a nation emerging from the Great Depression that it had the industrial base and know-how to arm Britain and other countries fighting Nazi Germany.
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Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for the government to pull the plug on the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco after its public spaces turned into a crime-ravaged open-air drug market that is so unsafe that government employees were ordered to work from home.
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