Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans are racing to pass a budget reconciliation plan by April, but new internal divisions threaten their ambitious agenda.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has been back-channeling with some members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus — picking their brains and giving them advice on trillions of dollars in overall ...

Despite a hostile exchange between Treasurer Curtis Loftis and a panel of House budget writers over a $1.8 billion accounting ...

Rod Miller writes, "Voila! Hidden in the pile of pointless culture-war pontificating and goofball populist pipe dreams, I ...

Columnist Joan Barron writes, "The traditional Republicans may be holding back in hopes that the extremist Freedom Caucus will go too far and will ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), a physician-turned-politician from deep-red Louisiana, has emerged as a central figure in the ...

A conservative branch of Illinois Republicans is calling out the party’s House leader. The Illinois Freedom Caucus, made up ...

President Trump’s blizzard of actions elicited two very different responses from Senate and House Democrats — one ...

The ongoing feud among Illinois House Republicans in Springfield is of no real consequence, but it is entertaining to watch. It doesn't matter because legislative Republicans are a superminority who ...

Donald Trump has long complained that Democrats are better at sticking together than Republicans are. He’s already revisited this gripe.

State lawmakers are working to combat President Donald Trump’s new immigration mandate to detain and deport people who ...

A bill to allow school vouchers regardless of income has passed in the House. Opponents worry that it will be the "wild, wild west of waste, fraud and abuse." ...