Republican Party News
Featuring coverage of Republican priorities, legislation, and internal debates, this section examines how the party shapes U.S. politics from a conservative perspective.
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opinion
Red States Now Lead the Charge Toward Healthier Living
Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the Left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement. Nowhere is this more apparent… -
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Thune Presses Senate Democrats to Facilitate Confirming Trump Nominees
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, facing a big backlog of unconfirmed judicial and executive branch nominees, is asking Senate Democrats to help confirm President Donald Trump’s less controversial picks in a legislative package. “I do think there at least some of my colleagues, Democrats, on the other side of the aisle, who would like to… -
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, 6 Months In
Over the course of four years’ banishment to America’s political wilderness while subjected to both a would-be assassin’s bullets and the humiliating and unprecedented spectacle of criminal prosecution by his political opponents, Donald Trump seems to have intuited a key life lesson: Time is of the essence. Carpe diem, seize the day. And so it… -
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Bipartisan Bill Aims to Codify Trump’s Health Care Pricing Transparency Directive
With the new Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing to effectively codify President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring price transparency from health care providers. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. Republicans Sens. Tim Sheehy of Montana, Chuck Grassley, and Joni Ernst of… -
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Vance: Here’s How Mamdani Won the New York Mayoral Primary
Vice President JD Vance is criticizing New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of building a coalition of what Vance called “downwardly mobile, college-educated people,” and carved-out ethnic blocs by pandering to shared hatreds. “This is a guy who won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young [and] highly educated… -
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Republicans Lose Another Strong Contender to Help Keep House Majority
Congressional Republicans have lost a strong contender to help them retain their majority in the House of Representatives with the announcement of the retirement of Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. According to the House Press Gallery, Republicans currently hold a 220-to-212 majority in the House. There are currently three vacancies in the chamber due to three… -
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Big Pharma Lobbying Group Takes Surprising Stand on MAHA Agenda After Memo Leak
A Big Pharma lobbying group has stated that it is “aligned” with President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again” after a leaked document suggested the group schemed to oust Kennedy and separate him from Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “It’s time to go to the Hill and… -
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The Keys to Trump’s Middle East Triumph
If you blinked, you just missed World War III. President Donald Trump on June 23 announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That came two days after Trump sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. Only the United States had the capability to obliterate the deeply buried site…. -
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Achieving Sea Superiority Through AUKUS
Whoever rules the waves rules the world. This argument, made famous by American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, rings just as true today as it did over a century ago. But today, the contest for maritime dominance is no longer just about destroyers and battleships—it’s about data, autonomy, and dominance beneath the surface. In the… -
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Republican State Legislators Defying Trump’s Efforts to Lower Health Care Costs
President Donald Trump was swept into office last November with a promise to lower prices for Americans who had suffered under 40-year-high inflation under President Joe Biden. Why, then, are red states defying the president’s efforts to lower prices by passing laws that only feed growing health care costs? Trump is delivering on his campaign… -
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‘Rotten to the Core’: Kari Lake Details Federal Media Agency’s Problems
The parent agency of Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded media are “incompetent and mismanaged, deeply corrupt,” Kari Lake, senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, told a House panel Wednesday. “This place is rotten. It’s rotten to the core,” said Lake during testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “President [Donald] Trump… -
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Thune Confident Budget Bill Remains on Track for Senate Passage
Senate Majority Leader John Thune appeared determined on Tuesday to keep the budget reconciliation bill on track to be passed in the Senate by July 4, even as he acknowledged that some Senate Republicans might in the end vote against the so-called Big, Beautiful Bill. “Could be,” Thune, R-S.D., said at the weekly Senate Republican… -
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In Face of Terrorist Sleeper Cell Threat, DHS Secretary Pledges to ‘Go After Them Before They Do Anything’
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sought Monday to reassure the American people that the Trump administration is actively working to protect the homeland following the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites. “We are continuing to evaluate every single threat and to proactively go after them before they do anything or take any… -
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Analysis: Blue-Collar Wages Rise as Illegal Immigration Declines
As President Donald Trump and his administration work on expanding deportation operations, the White House is reporting that blue-collar workers have seen the most significant growth in wages in over half a century. “In President Donald Trump’s first five months in office, real wages for hourly workers have seen their largest increase under any administration… -
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Operation Midnight Hammer Successfully ‘Obliterated’ Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Hegseth Says at Sunday Press Briefing
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine at the Pentagon early Sunday morning, detailing the U.S. military’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. “It was an incredible and overwhelming success,” Hegseth said at the Pentagon. “Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been obliterated.” At… -
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Foreign Students Who Hate America Don’t Deserve Visas—and We Have Tools to Stop Them
Would you let absolutely anyone in your house, with no conditions? Of course not. If even an invited guest got rowdy, trashed your kitchen, took over your bathroom, insulted your religion, or invited their friends to set up tents on your lawn, you’d send them packing. By the same token, no nation should be forced… -
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‘Lean and Focused’: Kari Lake Announces Layoffs at USAGM, VOA
Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced over 600 new layoffs at the agency, which includes Voice of America. “For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to bankroll an agency that’s been riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste. That ends now,” Lake said in a press release Friday announcing 639… -
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‘Law Enforcement Needs All the Support’ We Can Give Them, Thune Says of Troops Sent to LA
Senate Republicans weighed Tuesday in on the riots that have been occurring in Los Angeles, stressing support for law enforcement. The protests in LA quickly morphed into outbreaks of violence against law enforcement, prompting President Donald Trump to send in the California National Guard and U.S. Marines. A majority of registered voters support Trump’s deployment… -
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‘We Have an Agenda,’ Thune Says of GOP Senators on Budget Bill
“We’re anxious to have the ball and run with it,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Tuesday, referencing the budget reconciliation bill that has passed the House and is now being considered by the upper chamber. The South Dakota Republican emphasized that he thought Republicans had a vision for what they would like to… -
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Thune Battles Schumer on Holding Up Trump Nominees
One of the Senate’s biggest fights is happening right now, but it is not getting much attention. President Donald Trump still has around 100 nominees on the Senate executive calendar who have yet to be confirmed, and Democrats are pulling all stops to delay the process. To be sure, Republican senators under Majority Leader John…