The GOP's Current Plan To Cut Spending Is a Political Failure
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are still the chief drivers of our future debt. But Republicans aren't touching them.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are still the chief drivers of our future debt. But Republicans aren't touching them.
While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.
Kevin McCarthy's pick to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee evades any post-Trump humbleness in foreign policy.
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This week's Republican revolt against Kevin McCarthy is actually a rank-and-file revolt against the top-down process that both parties have used to control the House in recent years.
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The paper attributes the fight over the election of the next House speaker to "anti-establishment fervor" and a lust for "personal power."
The former Libertarian congressman was in the Capitol Wednesday drumming up a Hail Mary quest to become speaker of the House.
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The insurgent Republicans want to balance the budget, impose new barriers to immigration, and increase transparency for future earmark spending.
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The House majority leader doesn't understand how Twitter works.
...after months of complaining that social media companies censor too much.
Could John Boehner be forced to stay Speaker?