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Offers To Meet With Speaker ‘If He Has His Budget’
Topline President Joe Biden said Thursday he is ready to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to discuss the government’s fiscal year 2024 budget at “any time . . . if he has his budget”—...
January 6 Tapes Released To Tucker Carlson Will Be Made Public
Topline House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) plans to release to the public the tapes of the January 6 attack on the Capitol that he recently gave to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, amid criticism fr...
Right-Wing Calls To Cut Defense Would End Up Targeting The Republican Base
There is a move afoot among some Republicans in the House of Representatives to scale back the federal government’s discretionary spending in fiscal 2024 to the level prevailing in 2022. Discretionary...
Speaker McCarthy Gives Tucker Carlson 41,000 Hours Of Jan. 6 Footage
Topline House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) handed over 41,000 hours of security tapes from the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol riots to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a network spokesperson confirm...
Are Republicans Serious About Cutting Pentagon Spending?
The negotiations over the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House prompted howls of protest from the Washington establishment for one major reason – the fear that the budget freeze McC...
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks on the debt ceiling
(The stream is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a video above at that time.) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will deliver an address Monday on the debt ceiling. ...
House Votes To Remove Ilhan Omar From House Foreign Affairs Committee
Topline The House voted Thursday to eject Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee over controversial tweets about Israel, fulfilling House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)’s prom...
Will the Debt Limit Fight Impact Pentagon Spending?
The looming fight over increasing the debt limit raises multiple questions, from whether it will lead to a government shutdown to the potential impact on the United States’ credit rating. But those ar...
Musk Meets Top Congressional Leaders To Ensure Twitter ‘Fair To Both Parties’
Topline Twitter owner Elon Musk said he met with both House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) Thursday afternoon to “discuss ensuring that [Twitter] ...
Fair Tax Combines Flawed Policy With Terrible Politics
The United States Capitol building getty Congressional Republicans shouldn’t surprised they’re under attack now that the Fair Tax, a proposal to replace the federal income tax with a 30% national sale...
McCarthy Blocks Schiff And Swalwell From Taking Intel Committee Seats
Topline House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said he will block Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from taking seats on the House Intelligence Committee, in a move...
U.S. Government To Hit Debt Ceiling On Thursday
(Photo by Ina Fassbender / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Key Takeaways The US government is expected to hit the debt ceiling next Thursday, meaning that Cong...
Dr. Dre Sent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene A Cease-And-Desist For Using His Song In A Twitter Video
Topline Rapper Dr. Dre sent a cease-and-desist to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday, his lawyer told Forbes, after the congresswoman used the music to his song “Still D.R.E.” in a Twitter ...
McCarthy’s Controversial Deal With House GOP Hardliners Includes These Seven Bills
Topline The House is set to vote Monday on a rules package Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) negotiated with his opponents last week that lays out seven pieces of legislation on immigration, abortion,...
Here’s What He Gave Up To Win House Speakership
Topline Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) agreed to a series of concessions that have been criticized by both centrist Republicans and Democrats in order to win over hard-line Republican dissenters in hi...
Kevin McCarthy Elected House Speaker—Ending Historic Deadlock
Topline House Republicans elected Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the next speaker of the House in a vote that went past midnight Saturday morning, ending days of holdout from a group of hardliners ...
This House Speaker Race Is Not Nearly As Chaotic As The Two-Month, 133-Ballot Epic In 1856—When Slavery Was A Core Issue
Topline The House Speaker election is dragging on to a fourteenth vote, but it’s still a far cry from the chaos and violence that plagued 19th Century speaker races, especially one in 1856 that just p...
Kevin McCarthy Chaos Puts Asia’s $3.5 Trillion In Jeopardy
Kevin McCarthy’s inability to persuade his peers to elect him as the speaker has ground the House to a halt, preventing any legislative business from being conducted. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Time...
McCarthy Falls Short Again In Chaotic House Speaker Race—As Voting Stretches Past 11 Rounds For First Time In 163 Years
Topline Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) failed to win the House speaker election in an eleventh round of voting on Thursday, as a group of hard-right holdouts continued to prevent any candidate from se...
What To Know About Kevin Hern—The Latest GOP Speaker Candidate As McCarthy Struggles To Win
Topline Several Republicans opposed to electing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as speaker of the House opted Thursday to back Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) for the position, throwing yet another long-shot...
Trump Gets One Vote For House Speaker In Apparent Hard-Right Stunt—And He’s Technically Eligible For The Job
Topline Former President Donald Trump received one vote to be the next speaker of the House on the seventh and eighth ballots Thursday afternoon, in what appears to be a stunt as a protest against Rep...
Kevin McCarthy Loses Sixth Round Of Votes In Chaotic Speaker Election As GOP Claims ‘Progress’ In Negotiations
Topline The House adjourned on Wednesday following a sixth round of voting in which a coalition of conservatives blocked Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)’s bid to become speaker, but his path to the gav...
What To Know About Byron Donalds—The Republican Challenging McCarthy For Speaker
Topline Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) emerged Wednesday as the main Republican challenger to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for House speaker, as a group of almost two dozen hard-right repre...
Without A Speaker, House Business Remains At A Standstill—Here’s What’s At Stake
Topline House Republicans’ refusal to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as speaker after multiple rounds of voting on Tuesday has left the lower chamber in a state of paralysis: new members have no...
Cable News Hosts Call GOP Chaos ‘A Total Clown Show’ As Trump Urges ‘Vote For Kevin, Close The Deal’
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 03: U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) waits as the House of … [+] Representatives holds the election for Speaker of the House, on the first day of t...
McCarthy Insists Trump Still Backs Him For Speaker After Historic Loss In 3 Voting Rounds
Topline Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday night claimed he still had former President Donald Trump’s support and will remain in the fight to become House speaker, hours after Trump refused to ...
Trump Declines To Keep Endorsing McCarthy For Speaker After Voting Chaos, Report Says
Topline Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he is still backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) House speaker bid in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, after McCarthy fail...
House Adjourns After He Fails To Win Speaker Vote After 3 Rounds
Topline The House of Representatives adjourned Tuesday evening without a speaker and no clear timeline for when one might be chosen after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) failed to secure the votes need...
Healthcare Priorities For The Next Congress
“At long last, Congress will likely turn its attention to things other than COVID-19,” writes Sally … [+] Pipes. “But Democrats have lost their legislative trifecta and will ha...