Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, political observers — us included — wondered whether the Republican-controlled Senate would sign off on these controversial nominees.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning ...

John Hoeven, R-N.D., puts it. Republicans in that chamber expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP remains locked in an intraparty struggle over its version.

President Donald Trump’s second term has been defined by a flood of executive orders — many of them legally questionable. And for now, the courts are emerging as one of the few institutions ...

Two decades after “The Republican War on Science” was published, the broader crisis has reached a level that hardly seemed possible in the recent past. By Steve Benen When University of ...

This year, under pressure from conservative House Republicans, the GOP is planning to include substantial cuts in federal spending to the legislation to extend the tax cuts passed during Trump’s ...

Republican gains in voter registration are raising red flags for Democrats in key states, underscoring the inroads the GOP made across the country in 2024. The latest shifts, following eroding ...

Republican senators say they want to convince President Trump to support their plan to take the lead on a budget reconciliation package when they meet with him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Republican ...

House GOP in a quandary CQ Budget, Episode No. 340 Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a leader of the Freedom Caucus, boycotted a GOP policy retreat and made clear his opposition to a preliminary budget plan.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court allowed the swing state’s nonpartisan elections director to keep her job Friday, dashing the hopes of Republican state lawmakers who sought to ...

Republicans in Minnesota's progressive-dominated government have notched a temporary majority in the House through a power-sharing agreement reached Thursday after Democrats refused to show up to ...