GOP

A decade ago, the start of the Trump era

Byron York · June 17, 2025 3:48 pm

FILE - Business mogul Donald Trump rides an escalator to a press event to announce his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City. Trump is the 12th Republican who has announced running for the White House.

A decade of MAGA: How Trump’s golden escalator ride changed America

Mabinty Quarshie, Marisa Schultz and Naomi Lim · June 16, 2025 7:51 am

Georgia GOP scoffs at vice chair who says women can’t win statewide

Elaine Mallon · June 12, 2025 11:41 am

A winter storm on Jan. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C., shut down federal offices and schools as Congress certified the 2024 presidential election results Monday, four years after a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to halt the certification of the 2020 election results.

Courage, Strength & Optimism

On reconciliation, the Senate can make or break the deficit

James Rogan · June 12, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

How the Trump-Musk split affects the administration’s social policy

Emma Fuentes · June 6, 2025 2:49 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in The Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

How Trump led GOP from 2012 despair to 2024 triumph

Byron York · June 2, 2025 10:39 am

President Donald Trump listens as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington.

GOP fights GAO efforts to throttle Trump administration

Haisten Willis and Ramsey Touchberry · May 27, 2025 6:22 pm

Why the 2028 GOP race is wide open

Peter Laffin · May 26, 2025 2:00 pm

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., speaks before President Donald Trump at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla., Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

Republicans should let the ‘one big, beautiful bill’ die on SALT hill

Tom Rogan · May 15, 2025 3:37 pm

Beltway Confidential

Remember when Trump couldn’t be bought?

Timothy P. Carney · May 14, 2025 3:24 pm

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tx., speaks during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago

Jasmine Crockett claims the GOP prone to ‘attract violent actors’

Jenny Goldsberry · May 8, 2025 3:49 pm

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Fairness & Justice

Congress must take a stand on the death tax

Greg Murphy, Jay Timmons and Rep. Randy Feenstra · May 4, 2025 6:00 am