Tag: Republican Party

When debt limit hits, the Treasury would run out of cash with which to pay incoming bills, the budget office said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

CBO: Debt limit to hit in early to mid-October

Joseph Lawler · June 29, 2017 6:00 pm

The centrist Republican from Maine raised the possibility that legislation she introduced with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., might be considered. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Susan Collins urges ‘overhaul’ of Senate healthcare bill

Kimberly Leonard · June 29, 2017 1:43 pm

President Trump, center, told Republican senators this week that they should boost funding for healthcare in their bill to partially repeal Obamacare, in order to win more votes in the Senate and pass it when they return in July. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump told GOP senators, ‘Put some more money’ into the healthcare bill

Pete Kasperowicz · June 29, 2017 11:49 am

Trump's achievement, with his trade and immigration proposals, was to increase the margin by appealing to those raised in union households who had been sticking with the Democrats. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Michael Barone: Democrats and Republicans lack credibility on economic issues

Michael Barone · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

The president is planning on running for re-election, his spokeswoman said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump’s fundraiser at his DC hotel expected to raise $10 million for GOP

David M. Drucker, Alex Pappas · June 28, 2017 7:59 pm

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced this week the creation of an office whose head has been tasked with the singular objective of winning back the Midwest. (Twitter)

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Democrats realize they have a problem: Part 2

Becket Adams · June 28, 2017 7:39 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn speak with the media after Senate Republicans decided to scrap a vote before the July 4 recess. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Senate healthcare bill is really unpopular: Poll

Robert King · June 28, 2017 2:52 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson said that Republicans should have invited congressional Democrats into the process of writing a healthcare reform bill, which stalled in the Senate this week. (Josh Clark/The Post-Crescent via AP)

Ron Johnson: ‘Mistake’ to do healthcare on a partisan basis

Anna Giaritelli · June 28, 2017 12:46 pm

The hysterical claim that a piece of legislation will kill 29,000 people is one that no educated or thoughtful person should take seriously. (Twitter)

Death by legislation? Left-liberal critics just tipped Granny Logic off the cliff

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2017 4:01 am

If you listened to Republican leadership for the past eight years, you believed their agenda was repealing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republicans ready to protect insurers by any means necessary

Timothy P. Carney · June 28, 2017 1:47 am

Medical costs and other factors, including uncertainty, are contributing to increasing rate requests on the Obamacare exchanges in at least two states. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Study: Premiums rise 74 percent for some plans in Senate health bill

Robert King · June 27, 2017 11:13 pm

McConnell said some members expressed concerns to the president about market reforms and Medicaid expansion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell now expects vote on healthcare bill in ‘a couple weeks’

Alex Pappas · June 27, 2017 10:09 pm