Tea Party

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 21, 2019, after spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.

Beltway Confidential

With budget deal, Trump drains the swamp — of the Tea Party

Philip Klein · July 23, 2019 4:38 pm

In this undated 1992 photo, businessman and U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, of Texas, waves. Perot, the Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson said Tuesday, July 9, 2019. He was 89.

Beltway Confidential

Ross Perot’s legacy shows how populism doesn’t have to be partisan

Jack Hunter · July 9, 2019 6:22 pm

Beltway Confidential

Republicans join Democrats to kill Rand Paul’s fiscally responsible Pennies Plan because no one cares about the debt crisis

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 4, 2019 9:47 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, speaks during South by Southwest on Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

‘We’re not calling anyone names,’ says AOC as she accuses GOP of ‘xenophobia … white supremacy’

John Gage · March 31, 2019 3:57 pm

Magazine - Features

Sloshed on spending

Corie Whalen · February 15, 2019 5:00 am

Last week, an appellate judge issued a scathing ruling in the IRS targeting scandal -- the one that broke into the news cycle all the way back in 2013. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Beltway Confidential

IRS payments for abusing conservatives should keep Fed workers honest

Quin Hillyer · January 16, 2019 4:18 am

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks during press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018.

Magazine - Columnists

From Tea Party insurgent to last man standing: Ron Johnson in Wisconsin

Salena Zito · January 4, 2019 6:02 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., tells reporters that senators are considering multiple pieces of legislation in an effort to formally rebuke Saudi Arabia for the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Bob Corker wants to return to the GOP to something it used to be. America doesn’t

Philip Wegmann · December 17, 2018 10:05 pm

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., holds a news conference to introduce the "Secure America from Russian Interference Act."

Hoyer: ‘We don’t have our own Tea Party now’ with new liberal Democrats

Al Weaver · December 4, 2018 10:08 pm

If Mike Kelly Loses, the Tea Party’s Voice Is Gone

Chris Deaton · November 1, 2018 4:24 pm

Don Lemon and Brooke Baldwin of CNN are pictured.

Beltway Confidential

CNN hosts are upset that anyone would refer to left-wing protesters as a ‘mob.’ Do they not remember the media’s coverage of the Tea Party?

Becket Adams · October 10, 2018 9:47 pm

Are Democratic-Socialists the New Tea Party?

David Byler · July 5, 2018 5:21 am