Ex-Missouri house speaker sentenced 21 months for misusing Covid relief funds

Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud - AP News

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Speaker Johnson floats using reconciliation to address alleged fraud in blue states

DORAL, Fla. – Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday floated the idea of passing a sweeping spending package aimed at targeting what he described as fraud, waste and abuse in Democratic-led states. Johnson said during a news conference at the House Republican retreat in Doral that he’s been a “champion for reconciliation as one of…

US Senate passes housing affordability, House consideration next - Reuters

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Mike Johnson tells House Republicans housing bill could go to conference amid fight with Senate - Politico

Scoop: White House readies executive order to weed out Anthropic

<p>The White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing the federal government to rip out Anthropic's <a href="https://www.axios.com/technology/automation-and-ai" target="_blank">AI</a> from its operations, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. </p><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>The move would escalate the administration's fight with <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/anthropic-ai-jobs-claude" target="_blank">Anthropic</a>, which is already suing the Pentagon over its supply chain risk designation.</p><hr><ul><li>It would also formalize a broader push across agencies to remove Claude after <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude" target="_blank">President Trump said</a> his administration would not use "woke" AI.</li></ul><p><strong>State of play: </strong>Government agencies like the Treasury Department have already begun to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/treasury-trump-ai-anthropic-pentagon...

Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers

<p>Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made an unfavorable comparison of Muslims to dogs</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox</a></p></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mike-johnson">Mike Johnson</a>, the speaker of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">US House of Representatives</a>, on Tuesday declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their “tone”.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</a> and groups advocating religious tolerance have decried the stateme...