by Kevin Igoe As the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee when Republicans gained 63 House seats to establish a governing majority, I know something about winning elections. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, does not. Conservatives who ...
by Patricia Lopez House Republicans have a chance to prove they want to solve their declared border crisis, and not just as a means to inflame their base in an election year. Senate GOP leaders are supporting a bipartisan compromise on immigration, one that would give them much of ...
Fractured GOP the biggest obstacle Faced with looming deadlines to produce a federal budget, the top Republican in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the top Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, agree that Pentagon funding for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 should be ...
by Jonah Goldberg The House Freedom Caucus is largely right about debt and deficits. Some members might be staggering hypocrites, given that they had little problem with Donald Trump’s spending when he was president. They’re also right that the budget deal worked out between ...
by Jackie Calmes A grieving and besieged Israel offers a warning for Americans, if only we’d heed it. Sound the alarm: When politicians stoke domestic divisions for political gain — identifying as enemies their fellow citizens, government institutions, judges, military critics ...
by Doyle McManus John A. Boehner lasted five years as House speaker before he ran out of patience with his party’s hardline Freedom Caucus. “Legislative terrorists,” the Ohio Republican called its members after he quit in 2015. “They can’t tell you what they’re for. They ...