A self-described “mom in tennis shoes,” now the Senate Appropriations Committee leader, managed to win an increase in child care subsidies in a spending...
Bipartisan spending legislation approved by Congress represented a major defeat for ultraconservatives, who immediately turned on Speaker Mike Johnson.
The hard-right Georgia Republican called the $1.2 trillion legislation an “atrocious attack on the American people” and said the speaker had betrayed his G.O.P....