Paul Ryan

House GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan Has Major Gaps in Cost and Coverage

By Eric Pianin

House Republicans Monday night unveiled their long-anticipated plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a conservative, market-based approach that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R...
Why Trump Won’t Touch Entitlement Reform…Yet

By Edward Morrissey

Trump needs a lot of money to pay for his grand plans. But tinkering with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterm elections next year is playing with fire.
Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan

By Edward Morrissey

Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump met with outgoing president Barack Obama to start planning the transition. Until then, the Republican successor to the White House had...
Trump Can’t Make America Great If He Kicks the Medicare Can Down the Road

By Edward Morrissey

Republicans in Washington face a tough question after unexpectedly winning the presidency and controlling the Senate in the 2016 elections. They have regained single-party governance for the first...
GOP Leaders’ Tepid Praise Spells Trouble If Trump Wins

By Rob Garver

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The two most powerful Republicans in Congress last night presided over the formal nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election, and of...

House GOP Leaders and Trump Find Common Ground on New Tax Proposals

By Eric Pianin

Although Congress has put off any serious consideration of comprehensive tax reform until next year, House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled a far ranging wish list of measures designed to spur...
This Is Exactly Why Paul Ryan Didn't Want to Be Speaker of the House

By Rob Garver

Paul Ryan never wanted to be speaker of the House, and Wednesday was a perfect example of why. The guy who made his reputation as the Republicans’ wonk-in-chief as chairman of the Budget Committee...
Republicans Get Their Pound of Flesh by Censuring the Head of the IRS

By Charles Clark, Government Executive

In the latest in their bid to impeach the Internal Revenue Commissioner, Republicans on the House Oversight panel on Wednesday used a business meeting to approve a resolution 23-15 “condemning and...
After Endorsing Trump, Paul Ryan Decries ‘Anger’ and ‘Division’ in Politics

By Rob Garver

In this through-the-looking-glass period in U.S. politics, where cognitive dissonance has become more normal than remarkable, there shouldn’t be much left that surprises us. The Republican National...
One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard

By Martin Matishak

In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...

At CPAC,GOP Seeks Converts, Not Compromise

By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

Republicans care about converts, not crossover appeal. This was the big takeaway from the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference—where GOP all-stars pumped up their fan base this week at...
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Jockey for Position at CPAC

By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

As failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered an encore speech Friday to a major gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, a fresh crop of...
Some Republicans See ‘Chance’ of Budget Deal Soon

By Reuters

Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains possible but differed over potential flexibility on taxes...
Rand Paul Edges Out Marco Rubio in CPAC Straw Poll

By Samuel P Jacobs, Reuters

Conservative activists picked Senator Rand Paul on Saturday as their preferred presidential nominee for 2016, in an early but often unreliable snapshot of the Republican Party's base.
CPAC Exposes Rifts in GOP As Party Looks for a Winner

By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post

If there was any doubt about the huge amount of discord within the Republican Party, the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference should put it to rest. The suburban Washington gathering of...

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