Brian Fitzpatrick’s survival mechanism as a battleground House Republican in the Philadelphia suburbs entails occasionally distancing himself from his own MAGA-controlled party. On Thursday he took th...
Democrats believe President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spend megabill gives them a heavy cudgel ahead of the 2026 midterms. Now they have to effectively wield it as they try to reclaim the House. Ad-maker...
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...
Senate Republicans are planning to take an initial vote at noon on Saturday to take up the megabill. Leadership laid out the timeline during a closed-door lunch on Friday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) an...
It’s a scene jarringly familiar to many Republicans on Capitol Hill: a high-stakes piece of legislation, a tense standoff between GOP leaders and conservative hard-liners — and Mark Meadows in the mid...
