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With just hours to go before the largest yet congressional visit arrives at the border in the small Texas town of Eagle Pass, a source within Customs and Border Protection tells Breitbart Texas what they will witness pales in comparison to the migrant surge and grossly overcrowded facilities experienced during the month of December. A nearby soft-sided processing facility designed to accommodate 1,000 migrants that has routinely held nearly 6,000 during the month is now holding less than 500.

Congress faces a chaotic schedule when it returns in the new year. Here are four of the more pressing issues when Congress returns in two weeks.

Republicans ripped Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot in Maine as an affront to Democracy. 

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “State of the Race,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that Israel and Ukraine funding are important and border security needs to be tightened, but House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is “catering to the

Derrick Anderson, U.S. House candidate for Virginia’s Seventh District, earned House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) endorsement on Thursday.

A new report details how the swampiest, most establishment members of Congress have the highest average median incomes in their districts.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), one of the leaders behind the fight to reform a deep state surveillance law, on Friday said Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) strategy was more “appeasement” than leadership.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by a vote of 221 to 212.

Hunter Biden’s claim Joe Biden was “not financially” involved contradicts the House Speaker’s list of evidence that suggests otherwise.

GOP legislators want President Joe Biden to help negotiate a year-end emergency bill that would end his open-borders policy — but Democrats want to keep him out of the top-level talks. 

Extending FISA until the early months of 2024 without reform will effectively extend surveillance activities into 2025, Rep. Andy Harris (R-FL) told Breitbart News.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will come up empty in his latest swing through the U.S. Capitol.

The House will vote on formally opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) decided late Monday night to withdraw two FISA bills from consideration as House Republicans try to reauthorize and potentially reform a controversial deep state surveillance law.

Zelensky’s chief of staff urged U.S. lawmakers to approve billions more in aid to Ukraine, warning they may lose the war without more money.

Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has accused Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) of getting “physically aggressive” with her.

James Biden reportedly refused to appear before the House impeachment inquiry to discuss Joe Biden’s involvement in the family business.

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “bozo” whose claim that he misspoke when he said that Republicans were blurring out the faces of rioters from the January 6 Capitol footage to prevent prosecution by the Justice Department.

The vote will be a test for House Republicans, who hold a slight majority over Democrats. The measure will need nearly all Republican support.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday reportedly tabled a move to slip a deep state reauthorization into a defense bill.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who served as speaker pro tempore in October, said Tuesday he will not seek an 11th term in Congress. 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will soon unveil the committee’s proposal to rein in a controversial deep-state surveillance program that will expire by the end of the year.

The White House warned Monday that U.S. funds for Ukraine will run dry by the end of the year, bluntly declaring a failure by Congress to approve new support would “kneecap” Kyiv and hinder efforts to deliver more lethal aid from U.S. reserves.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said on this week’s broadcast of “CBS Sunday Morning” that if Republicans win a majority in Congress in the 2024 election, the United States will be under threat.

Sources familiar with the matter say Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY), an establishment Republican congressman from New York, told colleagues he will vote for Democrat President Joe Biden over Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump next year, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. LaLota’s office, meanwhile, fervently denied the allegations. 

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), the establishment career politician who represents the eastern part of the state, has already lost the support of the Republican Party of Idaho and now there are growing calls for a credible challenger to step up and run against him.

Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is granting clemency and amnesty to the 25 intransigent House Republicans who violated the formal will of the House GOP conference when they took to the House floor to block a Speakership bid from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) earlier this year. 

Mike Johnson is scheduled to huddle again with Mitch McConnell as conservatives grow increasingly worried about McConnell’s influence.

Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on Speaker Mike Johnson not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office has refused to confirm Rep. Matt Gaetz’s claim that there will be no reauthorization, temporary or otherwise, of a deep state surveillance tool.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated a proposal Monday that would include aid to Ukraine and border security reform, while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hopes to have a vote on a bill tying Ukraine and the border to aid for Israel as soon as next week.

The GOP’s demand for enforcement of U.S. border law is a “partisan” threat to worldwide democracy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a letter to the Senate.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is considering putting a measure to reauthorize a controversial government surveillance law into a defense spending bill, which could stoke division amongst Republicans and block strong bipartisan efforts to rein in surveillance overreach.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is even more dangerous than Osama bin Laden, according to a recent Salon article.

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Wednesday on “The ReidOut” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was a “Christian nationalist and anti-abortion zealot.”