The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber’s rules for the 119th Congress.  Among them was a measure to raise the threshold for calling a “motion to vacate the chair” – which sets off a House-wide vote to depose the sitting speaker.  Ex-Speaker Kevin...

Fox News recently learned Vice President-elect JD Vance went to George Washington Hospital Friday afternoon for a “planned” minor surgery.  “The Vice President-elect is having long-planned, minor sinus surgery and will be back at work tomorrow,” Vance Spokesperson William Martin confirmed. TRUMP GIVES JOHNSON ‘COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT’ AHEAD OF SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT JOHNSON BLASTS DEM ACCUSATIONS HE VOWED TO END OBAMACARE AS ‘DISHONEST’ Vice President-elect Vance was on...

President-elect Donald Trump announced via Truth Social his former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus will serve as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace. In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced Ortagus will work under Steven Witkoff, a New York real estate tycoon selected for Middle East envoy in November. “Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson,” Trump wrote in the post. “These...