The U.S. budget deficit increased 23 percent to $1.7 trillion, an increase of $320 billion, in the year after the Biden administration pushed through the Inflation Reduction Act which it claimed would close the government’s funding gap.
Former Florida Republican state Rep. Joseph Harding has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty on charges related to committing fraud surrounding COVID relief funds.
"We are willing to accept censure, sanction, suspension, removal from the Republican conference," Rep. Gaetz said. "If what these holdouts need is a pound of our flesh, we're willing to give it to them in order to see them elect Jim Jordan for Speaker."
The White House faced significant backlash after mistakenly posting a photograph of President Biden with U.S. troops in Israel, failing to obscure the soldiers' identities.