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In an extraordinarily rare move, Democrats came to the rescue on Friday to advance a group of four bills to offer $95 billion in aid to U.S. allies around the world.  Some 165 Democrats voted with 151 Republicans to pass a rule and begin debate on the $95 billion funding package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. There were 55 Republicans who opposed the rule.  Conservative hardliners have taken to paralyzing House business by opposing the historically mundane procedural rule vote this Congress. They've thwarted Speaker Mike Johnson's agenda seven times with the tactic. 

After debating whether to risk his job amid renewed threats, Speaker Mike Johnson is moving forward with a foreign aid plan that includes separate votes on money for Israel , Ukraine and Taiwan. In a last-minute decision, he's adding a fifth bill that includes elements of the' House's Republican-only border security bill that was already passed last year, Johnson texted his conference Wednesday morning. The package in total would offer $26 billion to Israel, $60 billion to Ukraine and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific, a combination of military and humanitarian aid. It would be made up of four separate bills, including one for each region.

Following a revelation that Russia is behind the enigmatic psychological attacks on US troops, top Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will continue their probe into Havana syndrome until they're'satisfied.' A CBS segment called '60 Minutes' on Sunday that aired on Sunday collected evidence over five years by The Insider and Der Spiegel revealing that a Russian intelligence unit might be responsible for Havana syndrome's perplexing neurological signs. Several senior officials and service members of the United States military elaborated on the extreme pain and disorientation they suffered after being struck by the 'energy weapon.'

This new bill, unlike the previous Israel bill that passed the House, is more expensive and does not have any provisions to offset those costs. Speaker Johnson's most principled move taken to date by this committee was the decision to pass a fully funded Israel financing bill in November,' the 50-member House Freedom Caucus said in a tweet. The Speaker is now surrendering to ostensibly pressure to relocate an even larger but now unpaid Israel aid package, reversing course on his pledge to allow new supplemental funding to be offset.' A number of potential pay-fors were suggested by the caucus: 'Cutting funds for the United Nations, eliminating the IRS's expansion, ending the Department of Commerce's slush fund,' or ending leftist climate change tax credits.'

Following the defamation testimony provided by Hunter Biden's business partner Devon Archer, a top Democrat, is rallying in support of Joe Biden's son's affairs. In a bombshell testimony on Monday, the Archer told Congress that the 'Biden brand' helped prevent Ukrainian firm Burisma from going bankrupt. Joe was on the phone or in person at least 20 times when his son, who called him "my guy," was talking with foreign associates, according to him. On Tuesday, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes, D-Conn., fired back at Republicans, saying there are no evidence that President Biden was involved in misconduct.

During an interview with MSBNC, Connecticut Representative Jim Himes said, "it is clear [Hunter] broke the rules regarding taxes and possibly the ownership of a handgun.' 'He should be held accountable for that,' he said while taking a shot at his Republican colleagues who 'never' made the same claim about the Trump family during the former president's time in office. If [Hunter] traded on his father's authority, he should be held accountable for it.' I'm emphasizing this because no one in the United States has ever heard a Republican say the same thing about Donald Trump or his family,' he said.

Following the release of his scathing report indicating that the Department of Justice and the FBI had no reason to launch the Trump-Russia investigation, House Judiciary Committee Republicans are set to grill Special Counsel John Durham today at a public hearing today. Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr in 2019 to look at misconduct relating to the 'Crossfire Hurricane', which prosecuted now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion allegations. He said four years later that the FBI launched the flawed investigation "based on raw, untested, and uncorroborated intelligence." On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will welcome Durham in a public setting.

Multiple administrations','sloppy' in their handling of classified information, according to House Intelligence chiefs, and the FBI is 'not being forthcoming' about the Trump, Pence, and Biden documents. It comes after the Intelligence Committee was given a briefing on the documents discovered from Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence's residences. However, Ranking Member Jim Himes told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that they only had a 'flavor' of what was in the documents.

According to a Pentagon memo obtained by CNN on Monday, the unidentified flying object shot down near Michigan was a "small, metallic balloon with a tetherled payload below it." According to the memo, the object, which was shot down near the eastern portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula above Lake Huron, crossed near 'US sensitive sites' before being pulled out. After the Pentagon refused to rule out the objects as being related to extraterrestrials, the White House denied that aliens were responsible.

A number of unanswered questions about the objects that were destroyed in Alaska and Canada, such as who sent them and for what purpose. Rep. Jim Himes warned Sunday that unanswered questions could lead to dangerous public opinion. 'I sort of see a pattern as I scrolled through social media this morning,' the Democratic congressman said. People's fear of being alone leads them to potentially harmful places.' I do hope that very soon the government will have a lot more information for all of us on what's going on.'