A new rift has opened in the House Republican caucus over how best to carry out President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Make America Great Again” agenda. Conservative hardliners left the House GOP’s annual issues conference this week arguing leadership hasn’t found a path forward to effectively overhaul the federal government.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday applauded President Donald Trump for strong-arming the president of Colombia in a clash over tariffs and deportations. “It was a message to Colombia and anyone else—you have to participate,

After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.

The alliance between Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump may prove to be the most important relationship in Washington.

Speaking at the March for Life, the speaker of the House was practically giddy about the state of the movement to end legal abortion in America.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to shake up leadership on ... “It’s a disturbing trend of a kind of purge of anybody who isn’t a lackey for Donald Trump,” Castro said. Johnson and a Trump spokesperson, for their part, have denied that ...

Within minutes of the White House freezing billions in federal grants and loans, a federal judge blocked the funding pause from taking effect until next week. Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration over its plan to pause billions in federal grants and loans.

Some of President Donald Trump's working-class and middle-class supporters see a lack of emphasis on lowering consumer costs and making daily American life more affordable.

Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

The Laken Riley Act was named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed in 2024 while out for a run by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.

North Carolina is another state prone to hurricanes—and in fact Hurricane Helene last fall triggered a Biden administration recovery effort led by Deanne Criswell, the impeccably qualified and unanimously confirmed director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There were no conditions attached, but here are two that would have been nice.