Tag: Republican Party

The House is expected to take up the measure that would fund the government through March 22 early next week. Lawmakers from both moderate and conservative factions said they anticipate the bill will pass despite increasing resistance to the short-term funding pattern, which has been particularly harmful to the military. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP sets up vote next week to fund the government through March 22

Susan Ferrechio · February 1, 2018 7:21 pm

President Trump addressed the GOP on the first day that the Republican-passed tax cuts take effect and will show up as extra money in the paychecks of most workers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump celebrates a year ‘unlike any other’ at GOP retreat

Susan Ferrechio · February 1, 2018 6:53 pm

An Amtrak passenger train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Va. (Zack Wajsgrasu/The Daily Progress via AP)

Stephen King: It’s ‘karma’ that train carrying GOP lawmakers crashed

Caitlin Yilek · February 1, 2018 6:46 pm

"They sat there stone cold, no smile, no applause," President Trump said. "You would have thought that on that one [low minority unemployment] they would have sort of at least clapped a little bit." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Trump calls out Democrats who ‘sat there stone cold, no smile’ during State of the Union

Steven Nelson · February 1, 2018 6:16 pm

With topics such as the DACA program and infrastructure now under consideration, the Democratic Party's calculated decision to align with the Resistance only makes it easier for Republicans to cast them as obstructionists in competitive midterm races. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump turns #Resist around on Democrats

Emily Jashinsky · February 1, 2018 4:55 pm

The GOP Is Gaining in the Generic Congressional Ballot. Does That Mean Anything?

David Byler · February 1, 2018 4:40 pm

Republicans are set to released the classified memo written by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as early as Thursday, over the objections of Democrats who say releasing it would be damaging. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

National Security

House Democrat: Nunes memo will erode America’s confidence in the FBI

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2018 12:30 pm

President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Michael Barone: Toward a Trump Republicanism

Michael Barone · February 1, 2018 5:01 am

These organic movements need to be encouraged, not made mandatory by Republican legislators. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Conservatives are passing laws requiring public universities to protect free speech. It’s probably a bad idea

Nick Phillips · February 1, 2018 5:01 am

"President Trump and I are going to be with you every step of the way in 2018 to tell that story to the American people," Vice President Mike Pence told GOP lawmakers on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Pence promises GOP Trump will help them win in November

Susan Ferrechio · February 1, 2018 1:34 am

Todd Ricketts (pictured right), who has close ties to President Trump and other bigwigs, was unanimously confirmed as the Republican National Committee's finance chair in a vote of the RNC executive committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Todd Ricketts confirmed as RNC finance chairman, replacing Steve Wynn

David M. Drucker · January 31, 2018 11:34 pm

Rep. Jason Lewis, R-Minn., was admitted to the hospital after the train carrying Republicans to the retreat struck a dump truck that was stuck on the tracks. Lewis struck his head when the train hit the truck. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP lawmaker released from hospital after train accident

Susan Ferrechio · January 31, 2018 11:32 pm