Voters still trust the Republican Party more to deal with national security, but on the issue of taxes, Democrats are now tied with the GOP in terms of voter trust.

Members of a key Congressional committee met for nearly 18 hours for a markup of the budget reconciliation bill.

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy won the Ohio Republican Party's endorsement a year before the 2026 primary.

Republicans officially reached the hard part of the effort to pass a budget plan addressing several of President Donald Trump’s top priorities this week.In the House of Representatives, markups took place on Tuesday for two of the main parts of the “big beautiful bill” Trump wants Congress to pass as one massive package.

After a marathon markup stretching over 17 hours, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced sweeping cuts to Democratic renewable energy and climate tax credits as part of the tax portion of the massive fiscal overhaul Republicans are aiming to pass to enact much of President Donald Trump ‘s domestic agenda.

The timing of the move was opposed by the former recipient of the endorsement, Gov. Mike DeWine, who twice received the party's endorsement in 2018 and 2022. Each endorsement was also done far closer to the primary election, after a sizeable bulk of the campaign had already run its course.

The poll finds that about half of Republicans, 55%, are very or somewhat optimistic about their party's future, up from 47% last summer. Still, only about 3 in 10 Republicans are optimistic about the state of U.S. politics, up from about 1 in 10 last summer.

With Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore facing mounting criticism from within his party, Republican insiders are increasingly looking

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) came down hard on his party for meddling with Medicaid and possibly requiring co-pays for Medicaid recipients seeking medical care. "It's reverse class warfare, is what it is," Hawley told CNN's Manu Raju Wednesday.

Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Republican Jean Stothert in Omaha's mayoral race to become the city's first Black mayor.

The House Republican Conference received backlash from conservatives on Tuesday after it published a social media post in Spanish.