it s now being viewed as a shot of momentum for republicans, and it signals major gop gains among latino voters in the region with the midterms around the corner. todd: griff jenkins in washington with more. good morning, todd and charley. it s only one race, and a special election at that, which means the seat is up again in november. but there are signs of a seismic shift in hispanic politics in south texas. republican mayra flores flipping the heavily democratic seat red in the rio grande valley. look at this. flores defeating sanchez by nearly eight points, the daughter of mexican migrant workers. flores victory is a clear sign that the gop is making significant inroads with hispanic voters. kellyanne conway had this reaction. watch. they tried to tie her as an ultra-maga, right-wing extremist. former president trump notching a victory in south carolina where the first house republican who voted to impeach packing. fryousing five-term congressman tom rice. look a
stephanie rawlings blake, the former mayor of baltimore, and lord peter ricketts, the uk s former national security adviser. hello, welcome to the programme. borisjohnson will face no further action from the metropolitan police over the parties that were held in downing street while covid restrictions were in place. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, were both fined last month for breaking covid laws at a birthday party in the cabinet room injune 2020. in a lengthy statement, the met said they had issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices, fines to 83 men and women most of them understood to be civil servants who were at events on eight different dates between may 2020, at the height of lockdown, to april 2021. here s our political editor chris mason. it was not long before christmas that partygate was first exposed, and since january, officers here have been investigating it, investigating the prime minister and the government he runs and whether they abided b
Had to say. Just moments ago on the house floor, we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks. Youve got to understand why we are here. The senate has produced not one Appropriation Bill through the floor. The house . More than 70 . Discretionary spending has now passed. I do not believe our troops need to be punished for us not getting the work done. So i ask congress will stay in session the next two weeks, continue to work to get this done. Lets take a closer look at whats in the stopgap measure. The bill keeps the governments funding at 2023 levels, but only for now. It also freezes the us s aid to ukraine. Democrats had originally tried to plug this gap with a 6 billion aid package, but that measure was removed from the resolution in order to secure the votes needed to pass it. All of this only lasts for 45 days, so the us could be back at the same cliff edge in just over six weeks time. A shutdown would leave hundreds of thousands o
Failed to convince enough members of his party to back a stop gap measure that would fund federal agencies for another month, while Congress Worked on long term spending plans. This means at midnight eastern time on sunday, the Us Government will run out of money to fund itself unless congress can agree a last minute deal. The republicans, who hold a slim majority in the house of representatives, are in a deadlock, with members on the right of the party demanding wide ranging Spending Cuts. One of that groups main objections has been the white houses request for an additional 24 billion in aid to ukraine. Mr mccarthy urged the senate to drop that measure from its resolution. I think if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if the senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. Earlier, megan scully is Bloomberg Congress editor joined me with her reporting on capitol hill.