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The Debt Ceiling Bill Faces Its First Test: Live Updates Before the deal goes to a full House vote, it has to pass a GOP-controlled committee where far-right members could potentially slow things down.
By Intelligencer Staff
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 28, 2023
By Eric Levitz
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 25, 2023
By Eric Levitz
the debt ceiling
May 4, 2023
By Eric Levitz
How Biden Learned to Love the Debt-Ceiling Crisis He has turned a chronic political headache into a winning issue.
By Eric Levitz
America’s Labor Shortages Are Good, Actually The upside of longer lines and faltering customer service.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 16, 2023
The GOP Is More Dependent Than Ever on Democratic Dysfunction As the Republican base has grown more blue-collar, the party’s agenda has remained plutocratic.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Jan. 13, 2023
By Jonathan Chait
house arrest
Jan. 7, 2023
Kevin McCarthy’s Tarnished Triumph He finally got the Speakership he wanted, but at what cost?
By Ben Jacobs
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 arrest
Jan. 5, 2023
The GOP Is More Ungovernable Than Ever Before Even with Fox News, Donald Trump, and the GOP Establishment united behind Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans still won’t toe the party line.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Nov. 17, 2022
GOP Leadership Fight in Congress Shows a Party of Warlords A civil war started this week with convoluted battle lines.
By Ben Jacobs
early and often
Oct. 30, 2022
The Man in the MAGA Middle Kevin McCarthy’s campaign to be Speaker means no enemies to the right, left, or center in his caucus.
By Ben Jacobs
Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Surprise Speaker at White-Nationalist Event The congresswoman delivered remarks at the America First Political Action Conference on Friday, shortly after a round of applause for Vladimir Putin.
By Ben Jacobs
Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes for Holocaust Gaffe, But Not for Her Ignorance More than three weeks after her deeply offensive comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust, Greene shows how little she’s learned.
By Ed Kilgore
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Caucus Promoting ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Values Didn’t Last Long The GOP representative walked back a proposal to form an America First caucus after Republican leaders pushed back against her nativist language.
By Matt Stieb
Matt Gaetz’s Colleagues Drop the Dirt on Him Lawmakers describe Gaetz’s alleged drug use and incidents in which he showed nude photos of women he slept with to colleagues on the House floor.
By Matt Stieb
the republican party
Mar. 3, 2021
The GOP’s Establishment Is More Populist Than Its Trumpists House Republicans are more staunchly pro-Trump — and anti-minimum-wage hikes – than Mitch McConnell is.
By Eric Levitz
Much-Maligned Congressional Earmarks Are Coming Back The Tea Party movement temporarily killed them — but only temporarily.
By Ed Kilgore
marjorie taylor greene
Feb. 3, 2021
Kevin McCarthy Decides to Protect Marjorie Taylor Greene The top House Republican gave his conspiratorial, pro-violence colleague a slap-on-the-wrist and said he’ll fight efforts to take her off committees.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Nov. 4, 2020
Republicans Make Shocking Gains in the House Democrats were expected to win several seats, but will instead lose a handful. Nancy Pelosi now faces a potential revolt.
By Ed Kilgore
17 Republicans Refuse to Condemn QAnon in House Vote They did so even after a Democratic colleague was targeted with death threats by the conspiracy’s followers a few days earlier.
By Charlotte Klein
QAnon Booster Marjorie Greene Continues March Toward Congress It’s hard to be too extreme in pockets of red America like Georgia’s 14th District, where Greene just won the Republican primary.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Are Trying to Force the House to Vote in Person The “reopen America” message trumps generations of anti-Washington rhetoric.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 24, 2020
Republicans Warming to Idea of Calling Their Own Trump Trial Witnesses The thinking is that if Democrats get John Bolton into the dock, the president should get an impeachment witness he wants, like Hunter or Joe Biden.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
Trump Gives House Republicans Participation Trophy As ‘Adjunct’ Trial Team Mark Meadows, Doug Collins, and others won’t get to rant and rave and cut capers in the Senate—but they’ll be honorary members of Trump’s legal squad.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 13, 2020
It’s Time for Pelosi and McConnell to Make Some Big Impeachment Trial Decisions The impeachment trial schedule should be set by week’s end, and the initial skirmishing in the Senate over rules will soon begin.
By Ed Kilgore
House Republicans Want to Add Some Crazy to Trump Trial Defense McConnell is struggling to keep Trump’s acquittal minimally dignified, but his president and allies in the House have other ideas.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 18, 2019
Assessing Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Wins and Losses The final verdict on this skillful Speaker’s strategy won’t come until after the election, but she’s already achieved some goals and failed at others.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 17, 2019
McConnell Pretends to Defer to House on Impeachment Evidence McConnell’s two-front war with both parties to keep a lid on a Senate impeachment trial reaches a new level of cynicism.
By Ed Kilgore
Van Drew Switch Gives House Republicans Exactly One Pro-Choice Member Anti-abortion activists had driven pro-choice House Republicans into extinction. If Trump backs Van Drew, that might annoy them.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 16, 2019
Schumer and McConnell Play Chess Over Impeachment Trial Rules Both parties want witnesses the other side opposes. Despite the posturing, a short trial with no testimony from John Bolton or the Bidens is likely.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 13, 2019
McConnell Flattering Trump Into Submission on Scope of Senate Impeachment Trial Mitch knows the best way to turn Trump around is to let him think it’s his own idea.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Nov. 11, 2019
New York’s Peter King Is 20th House Republican to Announce Retirement The Long Island representative had a reputation as a GOP moderate, but there was nothing moderate about his bouts of Trump-style xenophobia.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Oct. 23, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
Number of House Republicans Who Back Impeachment Inquiry Returns to Zero Mark Amodei, a Nevada congressman, appeared to come out in favor of the House impeachment inquiry last week — but then he backed off.
By Adam K. Raymond
ukraine scandal
Sept. 26, 2019
GOP Divided Over How Enthusiastically to Cover for Trump’s Corruption on Ukraine Some Republicans want to pretend that the whistleblower complaint is concerning but not damning — others, that Trump’s corruption is actually good.
By Eric Levitz
house republicans
Sept. 23, 2019
Trump Is Eroding the GOP’s Support Among the White Lawmaking Class Trump’s lack of appeal to highly educated Republicans hasn’t driven many voters from his coalition — but it is driving many GOP lawmakers out of D.C.
By Eric Levitz
The Last Black Republican in the House Waves the White Flag Five years ago, Republicans thought they had to become more diverse to win. Will Hurd’s departure symbolizes their abandonment of that path.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
vision 2020
June 11, 2019
Why the House Probably Won’t Flip in 2020 The House bears watching because Democrats are holding a lot of districts Trump carried in 2016, but so far signs are good for Pelosi’s team.
By Ed Kilgore
house republicans
May 10, 2019
Bad Boys Nunes, King, and Hunter Dominate House GOP Small-Dollar Fundraising Some pols raise grassroots money with charisma or ideology. In today’s House GOP, being outlandishly controversial works.
By Ed Kilgore
bipartisanship
Mar. 25, 2019
House Republicans Accuse Dems of Sabotaging Bipartisan Bills Pelosi’s caucus is allegedly denying vulnerable GOP moderates the opportunity to support bipartisan bills. Let’s hope that’s true.
By Eric Levitz
presidential harassment
Feb. 8, 2019
GOP Warns That Releasing Trump’s Taxes Could Lead to Further Transparency Republicans say exposing Trump’s conflicts of interest is a slippery slope that would lead to exposing all politicians’ conflicts of interest.
By Eric Levitz
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
President Trump Is Threatening to Shut Down the Government Over Immigration POTUS again rattling his saber over the border wall and legal immigration restrictions just after his allies assured us he’d be “patient.”
By Ed Kilgore
House GOP Passes ‘ICE Is Nice’ Resolution Having failed to get House Democrats to vote on a progressive “abolish ICE” bill, House GOP settles for an empty messaging resolution.
By Ed Kilgore
House GOP’s Immigration ‘Compromise’ Was a Bigger Flop Than Their Last Bill The more House Republicans negotiate with each other over immigration policy, the less they seem to agree.
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
Is Trump Actually Going to Do Anything About Family Separation? Fear of looking “weak” has apparently paralyzed POTUS on what is becoming a true political crisis for him.
By Ed Kilgore
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