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Sen. Michael Lee, a New Hanover County Republican, addresses a series of questions from Democratic Sen. Mary Wills Bode regarding the funding expansion of the Opportunity Scholarship program on the Legislative Building's Senate floor in Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday, May 2, 2024. The Senate approved a measure to soon spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on the program, which allows children to receive taxpayer-funded scholarships to attend K-12 private or religious schools. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for expanded private school vouchers

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after the House voted to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House Democrats say they’ll vote to save Speaker Johnson from removal by renegade Republicans

By Susan Ferrechio and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

This combination of photos show President Donald Trump, left, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland, Ohio. Twelve news organizations issued a joint statement calling on the presumptive presidential nominees President Biden and former President Trump to agree to debates during the 2024 campaign. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, PBS, NBC, NPR and The Associated Press all signed on to the letter. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden says he’ll debate Trump ‘somewhere’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. President Joe Biden goes into Thursday's State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes. He would use the proceeds to trim budget deficits and cut taxes for the middle class.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

House passes foreign aid package amid threats to oust speaker

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican leadership meet with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session as Johnson pushes towards separate votes on aid for Israel and Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package lives on with rare help from Democrats, teeing up Saturday vote

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican leadership meet with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session as Johnson pushes towards separate votes on aid for Israel and Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Speaker Mike Johnson vows to keep House rule his GOP foes threaten to use to oust him

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., speaks with reporters about the border security talks, outside the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Republican Senate candidates in battleground races are armed with fresh ammunition against incumbent Democrats, vowing not to let voters forget who kept Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Vulnerable Senate Democrats look to put Mayorkas trial behind them amid GOP attacks

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks with reporters to discuss his proposal of sending crucial bipartisan support to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after weeks of inaction, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives push Speaker Mike Johnson to abandon aid package to save his job

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican leadership meet with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session as Johnson pushes towards separate votes on aid for Israel and Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fight over foreign aid pushes House GOP to the brink of leadership chaos

By Alex Miller and Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 12, 2024. The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021. The justices did not comment in leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republicans edge toward ousting another speaker

By Alex Miller and Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 18, 2019. Newhouse was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last year, and is one of only two to beat back GOP challengers this year. (House Television via AP, File)

Trump endorses challenger of Republican who voted to impeach him

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, April 10, 2024, after arriving in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump to host embattled Speaker Mike Johnson as House swirls in turmoil

By Lisa Mascaro and Jill Colvin - Associated Press

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., speaks during a town hall hosted by the Democratic lawmaker at Montana Technological University, Nov. 10, 2023, in Butte, Mont. The lawmaker is seeking reelection to a fourth term. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

GOP pressuring vulnerable Senate Democrats on Mayorkas impeachment trial

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

MTG thrashes Speaker Johnson in letter to colleagues, wants to oust him

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump does a little dance after speaking, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

House Republicans confident Trump-led ballot will propel them to bigger majority in November

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Eric Hovde, a Republican businessman and real estate mogul announces he is for running U.S. Senate against Wisconsin Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Feb. 20, 2024, in Madison, Wis. Hovde is launching his first television ad of the race on Tuesday, Feb. 27, part of a seven-figure statewide buy his campaign said Monday will include multiple spots over the next month. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, file)

Eric Hovde puts Tammy Baldwin on defense in Wisconsin’s suddenly tight U.S. Senate race

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump, left, is welcomed by Michael Whatley, then-chairman of the N.C. GOP, before he speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

Trump, RNC score $65.6 million campaign haul in March

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wisconsin's presidential primary contest Tuesday, April 2, 2024, clears the way for a general election campaign Democrats see as an opportunity unlike any in recent history, where new legislative maps could help the party at the top of the ticket. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Democrats hope Biden could get a boost from down-ballot races under Wisconsin’s new legislative map

By Thomas Beaumont and Scott Bauer - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection

By Colleen Long and Chris Megerian - Associated Press

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 24, 2020. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Ken Buck voted out of House Freedom Caucus

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times