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A Republican senator who helps oversee military policy just sold up to $100,000 worth of defense contractor Lockheed Martin stock
Sen. Deb Fischer, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, made at least $10,000 from the…
Madison Hall
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A Republican congressman who wants the government to spend more money on defense just bought stock in two defense contractors
Rep. Kevin Hern — chair of the Republican Study Committee's Budget and Spending Task Force — called…
Madison Hall
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Republicans are asking their Twitter followers to help them decide who should replace Kevin McCarthy
Casting about for someone to lead the fractious chamber, some GOP lawmakers are running Twitter pol…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says she's not convinced Kevin McCarthy will actually keeps his hands off cuts to Medicare and Social Security: 'The math does not add up'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent she's not sure Social Security and Medicare are …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Some GOP lawmakers aren't quite ready to take Medicare and Social Security out of the debt limit battle — even after Kevin McCarthy said the matter is 'off the table'
"I wouldn't think it'd be off the table," one House GOP lawmaker said of including legislation on M…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Nancy Pelosi supports lawmakers trading stocks if they properly report the transactions. But 3 more members of Congress failed to meet that low standard.
As STOCK Act violations keep piling up, support grows — both on Capitol Hill and across America — f…
Warren Rojas
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Republican budget proposal would do away with universal free school lunches
Only nine states offer universal free school lunch. A Republican congressional caucus wants to make…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Americans will lose full Social Security benefits in 11 years, according to the program's trustees — a year later than expected
The latest report on the future of Social Security detailed the program's ability to pay out full b…
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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A former McDonalds franchise owner dubbed 'McCongressman' wants to be the GOP's next House Majority Leader and he's handing out McGriddles to win his colleagues over
It was not immediately clear whether all House Republican offices had received Hern's McGriddles. "…
Bryan Metzger
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House Republicans want to raise the Social Security age. It could hurt those who 'work their whole lives and die sooner,' the agency's head says.
Retirees are already facing a financial crisis in the US as more than half of them earn under $30,0…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Who leads the House now? The top Republicans who could be the next House speaker.
Kevin McCarthy said he would not run for the House speakership again after his historic ouster. The…
Brent D. Griffiths
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After McCarthy's ouster, House GOP leaders are scrambling to boost their rank
Reps. Steve Scalise and Tom Emmer already announced their intentions to pursue higher positions.
Madison Hall
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Tucker Carlson says he has 'no plans to get involved' in the House GOP speaker race despite bad blood with frontrunner Tom Emmer
The former Fox News host, who previously chewed out Emmer on a phone call, told Insider that the co…
Bryan Metzger
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Trump doesn't have enough clout on Capitol Hill to make Jim Jordan the House speaker
House Republicans will decide their candidate for speaker via secret ballot, limiting Trump's alrea…
Bryan Metzger
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Biden mocks Republicans for accepting pandemic relief funds while opposing student loan forgiveness: 'My program is too expensive?'
"The hypocrisy is stunning," Biden said of the large support for pandemic relief for businesses as …
Brent D. Griffiths
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Republicans reportedly want to ban student loan forgiveness and make it harder to get food stamps in a debt ceiling deal — and they seem to want to do it all over again next year
Democrats have demanded Republicans move on raising the debt ceiling. Now they want to lift it thro…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden vetoed a GOP-led attempt to overturn his plan to forgive student-loan debt
As he signed the veto, Biden blasted lawmakers who took on PPP loans during the pandemic but are no…
Mia Jankowicz
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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz on his decision to vote 'present' in the final House speaker roll call vote despite his opposition to McCarthy: 'I ran out of things I could even imagine to ask for'
During the vast majority of the House speaker roll call votes, Gaetz chose to back an array of cons…
John L. Dorman
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After flipping 14 votes in his favor, McCarthy loses yet another floor vote in seemingly endless House speaker bid
Kevin McCarthy resuscitated his flatlining House speaker bid Friday by flipping more than a dozen o…
Warren Rojas
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Republicans' plans to slash Social Security and Medicare are becoming clearer: 'We have no choice but to make hard decisions'
Republicans have indicated that they're willing to hold off on raising the debt ceiling in order to…