House Speaker Mike Johnson will try against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week

Steve Berger, an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic,” set off on an ambitious project. His stated goal: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson drew a clear dividing line between himself and President Donald Trump as he claimed Russian President resident Vladimir Putin was “dangerous” and “not to be trusted.” In an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday,

Mike Johnson, the leader of the House of Representatives and a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has rejected accusations the president is too friendly toward Russia.