Johnson, who took over for the ousted Kevin McCarthy more than two years ago, is presiding over one of the slimmest House majorities in modern times, leaving him no room to spare if he’s trying to pass legislation on party line votes, without Democrats.

The budget blueprint is the first step in Republicans' two-pronged plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

During the final vote to close out the House’s “hell week,” a handful of Republicans had a message for the Senate: You’re responsible for the “suffering” agenda. Standing on the steps outside the Capitol on Thursday,

Thursday's vote in the House provides funding for DHS after a more than two-month shutdown, but does not include dollars for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.

Hawaiʻi Senate and House of Representatives approved House Bill 1800, the state’s supplemental budget bill for fiscal biennium 2025-27. Courtesy Photo: Hawaiʻi Legislature. Th

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.