The House GOP majority was already tiny. As a Florida Republican resigns to join Team Trump, the party's troubles just got a little worse. By Steve Benen After Donald Trump’s presidential ...

GOP Senate Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said: "Party unity is the consensus on the reconciliation strategy." The disagreement leaves the future murky for Trump's campaign promises, even as he moves ...

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he was surprised by the scope of President Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Lisa Desjardins reports on that reaction and a Republican strategy ...

When the idea of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants first circulated, the pushback from Republican senators was pretty swift. And even the few who entertained the idea drew a line at pardoning the ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shot down rumors that he would switch to the Republican Party. Speaking to Semafor, Fetterman dismissed such rumors as “amateur hour s***,” vowing to remain with the ...

As in 2023, a GOP speaker has been elected by the narrowest of margins. And as in 2017, the GOP intends to pass President Trump’s agenda through a single budget reconciliation bill. Yet a ...

The 11th- and now 12-hour drama swirling around TikTok has fired up the ire of Republican Senators, who met at DC’s Jefferson Hotel yesterday for a Sunday brunch and a follow-up dinner hours later.

About 300 members of the New York State Republican Party on Sunday filled The Mayflower Hotel in the nation’s capital, where top party leaders and elected officials delivered giddy and fiery ...

Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo has been covering campaigns and every aspect of federal policy since 2006. In addition to his reporting for Raw Story, Matt has been a contributor at WIRED, VICE ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said a number of such lists exists, and they serve as tools to kick off the new Republican Congress's efforts to carry out President-elect Donald Trump ...

Now, as they head into two years of total Republican control over the federal government’s levers of power, the alliance between Johnson and Trump may prove to be one of the most important ...

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp leads Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in a hypothetical matchup in next year’s Senate race, according to new polling from a conservative group. The poll ...