Anti-abortion leaders are at a crossroads after state abortion restrictions and ballot failures. Jane Coaston interviews Kristan Hawkins on what’s next.
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G.O.P. Threatens Spy Agencies’ Premier Surveillance Tool
With hard-right Republicans attacking federal law enforcement agencies and unwilling to extend their broad powers, a major warrantless surveillance program targeting foreigners overseas may face new limits from Congress.
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Kevin McCarthy Facing Tough Choices After House Mutiny
Lawmakers in both parties fear that the rebellion by the extreme right could endanger spending bills and other big legislative initiatives if it persists, shaping the speakership in the most difficult of ways.
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House Is Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny Against McCarthy
Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus refused to surrender control of the floor, forcing G.O.P. leaders to scrap votes for the week and leaving the speaker facing what he conceded was “chaos.”
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Hard Right Grinds House to a Halt, Rebuking McCarthy for the Debt Deal
Members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus effectively shut down the House floor for several hours, calling the speaker’s fiscal compromise with President Biden a betrayal.