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1. In the Wake of Budget Victory, House Republican Calls for Speaker’s Job
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In the Wake of Budget Victory, House Republican Calls for Speaker’s Job
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After months and months of stopgap measures to keep federal departments working, President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion bill Saturday to keep the government open through September 2024. The late Friday night-early Saturday morning bipartisan vote, passed 74-24. But that wasn’t the source of drama on Capitol Hill.
The drama once again surrounds the future of the current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La). Following the bipartisan passage of the bill in the House to keep the government open, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to “vacate his leadership” or remove fellow conservative Johnson from the speaker position because he worked a deal with Democrats to pass the spending measures to keep the federal government departments running. The House passed the government funding bill 286-134.
2. U.S. Government Bites Back
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U.S. Government Bites Back
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a lawsuit last week against one of the world’s communications giants, Apple. According to the Department of Justice, the antitrust lawsuit alleges that Apple has a monopoly over smartphones by “selectively imposing contractural constrictions on and withholding critical access points from developers.”
The U.S. government is seeking a ruling that will make Apple conduct business in a fair manner by providing a more seamless integration.
The Justice Department charges that Apple has established a manner to use devices that will keep users in the Apple system. It alleges that the tech giant is blocking rivals from accessing critical hardware and software features, and thus, maintaining dominance in the smartphone…
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