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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Tax Break Dividing the Republican Party
A big proposed deduction is pitting some larger corporations against the GOP’s small-business base.
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‘A Treacherous President Stood in the Way’
Frederick Douglass’s 1866 essay for The Atlantic on how Congress can cope with a chief executive who refuses to recognize the rights of all citizens
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Republicans Rebuke Trump All Over Again
The president’s return to “both sides” rhetoric on Charlottesville brings a familiar round of criticism from GOP lawmakers practiced in the art of presidential scolding.
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Michael Stravato/AP Progressive Values Can't Be Just Secular Values
New polls suggest liberals have an increasingly negative view of religion, despite the fact that most Democrats—and Americans—are religious.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Mitch McConnell, Under Siege
The majority leader is already a conservative bogeyman in an Alabama Senate race. Now he’s in a fight with President Trump after his Obamacare repeal failure.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Eight Things Paul Ryan Has Learned About Governing
The speaker of the House had grand ambitions for the first 200 days of this Congress.
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U.S. Air Force Does the U.S. Military Need a Space Corps?
A proposal in Congress would create the first new uniformed service in 70 years, but it faces opposition from the Pentagon.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Can Congress Bring the National Flood Insurance Program Above Water?
The debate over too-low premiums and repetitive payouts grinds on, even as the thunderheads roll in and the water levels rise.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Senate Finally Gives Trump His Administration
Democrats relented on confirming dozens of presidential nominees to key government posts, days after the collapse of the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Can Republicans Stop Trump From Sabotaging Obamacare?
The president wants to let the law implode after the failure of repeal and replace, but GOP lawmakers don’t.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Democrats Pitch a Kinder, Gentler Populism
With the unveiling of the party’s new agenda, the rhetorical battle for the allegiance of the middle classes has begun.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Health Care's Bipartisan Moment?
After the failure of the Senate Republican repeal plan, Democrats say they are ready to deal.
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Cliff Owen / AP John McCain's 'No' Vote Sinks Republicans' 'Skinny Repeal' Plan
The Arizona veteran cast an unexpected vote against Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch proposal to partially repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving the GOP once again without a way forward.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate's Blind Vote on 'Skinny Repeal'
Three Republicans issued an unusual demand on Thursday, saying they will only vote for Mitch McConnell’s latest proposal if they are assured it won’t become law.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Lawmakers Grill Defense Officials on Equipment-Transfer Program
Members of a House committee expressed their concerns over a recent report revealing holes in how the agency turns over unused military gear to law enforcement.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why Trump Is Threatening the Wrong Republican Senator on Health Care
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is no vulnerable GOP squish—she wields significant power over the Interior Department and once won her seat as a write-in candidate.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Conservative Groups Fume Over Failed Repeal Votes
Activists on the right have been pushing to repeal the Affordable Care Act since 2010—only to see some Republicans defend the law once they got the power to get rid of it.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Republicans Reject Another Obamacare Repeal Plan
The GOP’s options are dwindling after the failure of an amendment that would scrap Obamacare without replacing it. Party leaders are now looking for any plan that can pass.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Senate Republicans Clear Key Health-Care Hurdle
The GOP voted to begin debate on repealing Obamacare, as several holdouts fell in line. What—if anything—the party can pass remains uncertain.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Mitch McConnell's Latest Obamacare Gambit: 'Skinny Repeal'
Republicans are now considering a bill that would only scrap the law’s insurance mandates and some taxes as they struggle to round up votes in the Senate.
