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House Freedom Caucus
ukraine aid
Mar. 22, 2024
Under Threat From Marjorie Taylor Greene, GOP Speaker Faces Fateful Choice Mike Johnson, still relatively new to the job, must pick between abondoning Ukraine or relying on Democrats to save his gavel.
early and often
Feb. 29, 2024
Johnson Gets One Last Chance to Avoid Government Shutdown The House passed one more stopgap spending bill, but conservative rebels may still cause a shutdown if they don’t get their way on spending.
early and often
Feb. 21, 2024
Congress Is Hurtling Toward a Government Shutdown If conservatives can badger Mike Johnson into rejecting any bipartisan deals, they may secure across-the-board spending cuts after a shutdown.
early and often
Feb. 7, 2024
Mike Johnson’s Spectacular Day of Failure The Republican House Speaker managed to botch the Mayorkas impeachment and a measure to help Israel after killing a border-security deal.
government shutdown
Jan. 10, 2024
Johnson Needs Trump’s Permission Not to Shut Down the Government Like Kevin McCarthy before him, the house speaker wants Trump to protect his right flank.
early and often
Jan. 9, 2024
GOP Border Demands Drive New Government Shutdown Threat Conservative hardliners are trying to force Democrats to make concessions on border policy, and Speaker Mike Johnson can’t stop them.
early and often
July 12, 2023
Was MTG Kicked Out of the Freedom Caucus for Spilling Its Secrets? Members of the secretive group suspect that Greene tattled to McCarthy. Now House Freedom Caucus members won’t even say whether she’s in or out.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 23, 2023
Freedom Caucus Mulls Ejecting MTG for Loyalty to McCarthy Keeping McCarthy in fear and doubt is essential to the turbulent conservatives, and MTG’s loyal friendship with him deeply annoys them.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 31, 2023
The Quirky Conservative Who Saved the Economy and McCarthy Thomas Massie broke with fellow far-right Republicans, who are determined to make the House Speaker hurt.
By Ben Jacobs
early and often
May 1, 2023
Rebel Democrats Risk Empowering GOP Extremists on Debt Limit Calling for Biden to negotiate with House Republicans demanding surrender has nothing to do with genuine bipartisanship.
By Ed Kilgore
house arrest
Jan. 6, 2023
This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like Contrary to the claims of conservative pundits, the GOP’s mutiny against McCarthy is not a sign of the party’s democratic vitality.
By Eric Levitz
house freedom caucus
Dec. 15, 2021
Mark Meadows Wants to Take Your State Capitol Hostage The House Freedom Caucus wants to replicate itself and its notorious tactics.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Dec. 1, 2021
Will Republicans Force a Government Shutdown to Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandates? A small group of conservatives can gum up the works and force at least a brief shutdown. But with Omicron looming, the timing is strange.
By Ed Kilgore
Kevin McCarthy Determined Not to Go the Way of Cantor and Boehner After witnessing the fate of former House GOP leaders, McCarthy is not about to annoy extremists in the House by bashing Paul Gosar.
By Ed Kilgore
Freedom Caucus Troublemakers Are Poised for a Comeback If Republicans retake the House in 2022, the caucus could return to its insubordinate ways — fueled this time by loyalty to Trump, not conservatism.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Republicans Want to Keep Punishing Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger The pair are already pariahs, and ignoring Pelosi’s January 6 panel would be easier. But Republicans still want payback, and leverage over McCarthy.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Mar. 20, 2021
Conservative George W. Bush Is Now Too Liberal for His Party George W. and Jeb Bush once defined not just Republicanism, but movement conservatism. Both have changed decisively after Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 15, 2020
McConnell Finally Acknowledges Biden As President-elect It’s taken a long time, but the dam has broken, with Republican senators undermining any last-minute rebellion against the results in January.
By Ed Kilgore
Congress and Trump Will Keep Bickering Through the Holidays Endless wrangling over spending and stimulus and a likely Trump veto of a defense-policy bill are casting a pall over a holiday-decorated Capitol.
By Ed Kilgore
donald trump
Dec. 9, 2020
House Overwhelmingly Passes Defense Bill Over Trump’s Objections It looks like Trump will end his relationship with Congress by vetoing a must-pass bill and then being rebuked by many in his own party.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Sept. 1, 2020
Mark Meadows Has Been a Game Changer in Stimulus Talks, and Not in a Good Way As Mnuchin’s “chaperone” and a world-class deal-breaker, the White House chief of staff may be the fly in the ointment.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
July 31, 2020
Democrats Put Squeeze on White House As Unemployment Benefits Expire Right now the White House looks more likely to cut a stimulus deal with Pelosi and Schumer than to herd fractious congressional Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
July 21, 2020
House Freedom Caucus Members Go After Liz Cheney for Defending Fauci It’s a sign of the times that hard-core conservative Cheney is under attack for insufficient loyalty to Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
budget deal
July 25, 2019
House Democrats Push Through Trump-Endorsed Budget Deal Even two members of “the Squad” supported the deal, but Trump’s conservative buddies took a powder.
By Ed Kilgore
budget deal
July 23, 2019
Will Conservatives Support Trump’s New Budget Deal? Will Trump? The deal could go through quickly, but Trump, conservatives, and House progressives could all play a role in blowing it up.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Jan. 11, 2019
It’s Official: We’re in the Longest Government Shutdown Ever The only path to a reopened federal government right now seems to be a national emergency declaration loaded with legal and political pitfalls.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
Nov. 14, 2018
Kevin McCarthy Easily Wins Bid to Lead Diminished House Republicans The congressman from California finally won the job he nearly got in 2015 — though thanks to the midterms, it did not come with the Speaker’s gavel.
By Ed Kilgore
house republicans
Aug. 20, 2018
Will Losing the House Bring Down Kevin McCarthy’s Bid for Leadership? Ryan’s designated successor has no choice but to get out there on the campaign trail. But anything other than a GOP win could be dangerous for him.
By Ed Kilgore
Why the GOP Might Face More Humiliation on Immigration Republican attempts to pass a bill were huge failures. But there’s always room to fail again.
By Ed Kilgore
For House GOP, One Doomed Immigration Bill Down, One to Go The House rejected the hard-core Goodlatte bill, and will likely kill the “compromise” bill too, which is DOA in the Senate anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Likely to Sneak Cuts to Food Stamps Through the House This Week There are still ongoing fights over SNAP work requirements and farm subsidy limits, but one obstacle to the farm bill has fallen.
By Ed Kilgore
Freedom Caucus’s Cunning Plan Could Hand the House to Democrats To subdue rebellious moderates, just take campaign funds from some of the most vulnerable GOP members. What could go wrong?
By Margaret Hartmann
House GOP Factions Playing Chicken With Immigration, Farm Bill Paul Ryan is caught in the middle as the House Freedom Caucus and key GOP moderates push conflicting paths on immigration bills.
By Ed Kilgore
Farm Bill Defeated in House Over Food Stamp and Immigration Issues House GOP lost Democratic Farm Bill votes by insisting on new SNAP work requirements. Then conservatives took it hostage over an immigration fight.
By Ed Kilgore
No Immigration or Obamacare Deals As Huge Spending Bill Shambles Toward Passage Most of the controversial riders are out, but modest gun measures could yet be enacted.
By Ed Kilgore
House GOP Floats Tax Credit for Armed Vigilantes Who Prowl Schoolyards Who needs gun control, when you can use a targeted tax cut to bring random “good guys with guns” onto every campus in America?
By Eric Levitz
Paul Ryan’s Suicide Mission The Speaker of the House has promised to stick with conservatives on immigration. Will he trade his gavel for a breakthrough deal?
By Ed Kilgore
What Needs to Happen in Congress Today to Avoid Another Government Shutdown There will be loud dissents today, especially from House conservatives and Democrats — but it looks like the spending deal may get ratified.
By Ed Kilgore
Surprise! Congress May Sneak Debt-Limit Increase Into Its Stopgap Spending Bill It could take care of a big legislative headache — or blow up the delicate negotiations.
By Ed Kilgore
Uh-oh: Here Comes the Debt Limit Again It’s now likely debt-limit negotiations will get tangled up in the spending talks that have dragged on for months, making a debt default possible.
By Ed Kilgore
5 Reasons an Immigration Deal Will Be Crazy Hard to Achieve What might be America’s thorniest domestic policy issue just keeps getting more complicated.
By Ed Kilgore
House GOP Passes Spending Bill Aimed at Shifting Shutdown Blame to Democrats Since real negotiations have failed, the government is probably shutting down on Friday — and now it’s all about the blame game.
By Ed Kilgore
Ryan’s Strategy May Be Backfiring, Earning GOP Blame for a Government Shutdown In trying to “jam” Senate Democrats with a GOP-only spending bill, Ryan may have given House conservatives the power to jam him.
By Ed Kilgore
After Tax Cuts, Republicans Eye Civil War House conservatives just fired the opening salvo in a looming intraparty fight over spending, immigration, and perhaps, the special counsel.
By Eric Levitz
Congress Will Face a Government Shutdown on December 22 — Merry Christmas! A scheme by Ryan and McConnell to buy more time while embarrassing Democrats blew up, as defense hawks said no.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP Is No Longer Trying to Hide Its Inhuman Priorities The GOP just voted to add $1.5 trillion to the debt for corporate tax cuts, but won’t commit to more than $1 billion for the opioid “emergency.”
By Eric Levitz
House Narrowly Passes Budget, But Trouble’s Ahead on Taxes The very close vote shows that the SALT deduction issue is a serious problem.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Deficit Hawkery Dies in the Dark of Night House GOP ends its tough talk about spending and deficits in a rush to cut taxes.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Trump’s Tax Plan Will (Probably) Be Impossible to Pass The plan’s upper middle-class tax increases are too high for many GOP lawmakers to tolerate – but still too low to satisfy the party’s deficit hawks.
By Eric Levitz
House Conservatives Demand That Tax Reform Add to the Deficit The House Freedom Caucus believes that the debt is a threat to our grandchildren — and in their upcoming tax plan, they insist on growing it.
By Eric Levitz
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