Senate Majority Leader John Thune is dangling another carrot for Democrats. They still aren’t ready to bite. In his latest pressure tactic, the South Dakota Republican is teeing up yet another vote to...
Republicans’ redistricting push is on ice in New Hampshire, in a blow to the White House’s aggressive effort to protect the GOP’s House majority in the midterms. State Sen. Dan Innis has yanked his ow...
Speaker Mike Johnson is working to assuage worries within his conference about his strategy of keeping the House indefinitely out of session until Senate Democrats vote to end the government shutdown....
Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on Democrats on multiple fronts as the government shutdown enters a third workweek, hoping hardball moves can force a reckoning that cracks the stalemate. The mo...
One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot. President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project ...
Texas Republicans approved a new, aggressively gerrymandered congressional map early Saturday morning, moving forward with a power grab pushed by President Donald Trump. The GOP-controlled state Senat...
Republicans went home for the summer with a plan to sell President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to their constituents. Some are starting to find that voters aren’t buying it. In the latest dis...
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was always destined to pass, and it’s instructive to realize why: for Republican lawmakers, this was an up-or-down vote on President Donald Trump. The sprawling measur...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s ability to pass the “big, beautiful bill” is hinging on Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaska senator has been the subject of an intense whip effort by GOP leaders over t...
