The White House budget chief said Oct. 1 that the administration would start firing federal employees in the next "one to two days." It hasn’t followed through on that threat.

Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) summoned reporters so they could blast House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the government shutdown and for refusing to swear in fellow Arizona Democrat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election last month to fill her late father’s House seat.

Maxwell sat for two days of questioning with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, in July. During those talks, Maxwell claimed she never saw Trump behave “inappropriately with anybody” or be involved in any type of “massage setting” around Epstein or his young victims.

W ASHINGTON — Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., publicly sparred Wednesday with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and New York GOP Rep. Mike Lawler over the delay in swearing in a Democrat who won a special election in Arizona last month.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rejected voting on a standalone bill to fund US military members’ salaries Wednesday, as the federal government shutdown entered its second week.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe opened Thursday with a five-minute tirade from host Joe Scarborough, who erupted over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to a tearful Republican voter’s plea about the government shutdown.

The Judge Paul Pressler School of Law never materialized, and its namesake was later accused of decades of sexual abuse.

For reasons only he can know, House Speaker Mike Johnson thought it would be a good idea to take questions from the public in the midst of presiding over a government shutdown. Among the uncomfortable encounters Johnson endured was a man who accused him of lying about illegal immigrants draining Medicaid.