G.O.P. leaders are tailoring their government funding legislation to far-right lawmakers who are insisting on deep cuts, but who hardly ever vote for spending bills. That’s raising the chances of a fall shutdown.
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McCarthy Questions Strength of Trump’s Candidacy, Then Quickly Backtracks
The House speaker angered Donald J. Trump’s allies by saying he did not know whether the former president was the strongest candidate to beat President Biden.
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A Handy Guide to the Republican Definition of a Crime
The party of law and order has given new meaning to “law and order.”
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House G.O.P. Uses Spending Bills to Pick Partisan Policy Fights
Republicans are tucking dozens of policy mandates into government funding bills, in an effort to use their majority to force politically charged votes over cultural war issues.
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Divided House Sidesteps Biden Impeachment Vote but Starts Inquiry
The Republican-led chamber moved to refer articles of impeachment to two House committees, charging that the president’s immigration policies are an impeachable offense.