Kevin McCarthy

The Florida representative, part of the most hard-line wing of the Republican Party, has shown a keen desire for the spotlight in his six years in Washington

The US Congress is in unprecedented chaos, but much of the debate has been focused on one detail: whether a senator can wear shorts

The president said Wednesday both parties will have to come together to ensure that the government does not shut down next month, while the battle for a new House Speaker kicks off

McHenry was one of McCarthy’s closest allies, helped him win the speaker’s contest in January and negotiated the debt limit deal that McCarthy made with President Joe Biden earlier this year

The Democratic president’s latest step will help 125,000 borrowers by erasing $9 billion in debt through existing relief programs

Legislative activity is paralyzed until the election of a new House Speaker but the ability of Republican hardliners to hold Congress hostage threatens a much longer stalemate

Matt Gaetz, from the hard-right wing of the Republican Party, forces their leader in Congress, nine months after his appointment, out of office in a historic move that plunges the United States into legislative paralysis

The leaders of Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Britain, the European Commission, the European Council and the NATO joined Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the call

Congressman Matt Gaetz has presented a motion to oust Kevin McCarthy, whose fate may be in the hands of the Democrats

It’s a historic moment: the first time in more than 100 years that a lawmaker may actually force a vote using the legislative tool that has been threatened against other House speakers

Gaetz demanded McCarthy disclose the details of a supposed deal with the White House to bring forward legislation to help fund the war in Ukraine after the speaker relied on Democrats to provide the necessary votes to fund the government

Lawmakers from both parties claim that they will seek funds to help Kyiv in the coming days, but the far-right Republican faction is increasing its resistance

In response, McCarthy says, ‘So be it. Bring it on. Let’s get over with it and let’s start governing.’ Gaetz is a Florida Republican who’s a longtime McCarthy nemesis

The rushed package drops aid to Ukraine but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion. The bill funds government until Nov. 17

House passage came after Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped plans for steep spending cut and relied on Democratic help

A government shutdown that could begin Sunday would mean even more chaos in Washington at a time when he’s running for reelection

Hard-right Republicans in Congress have rejected any temporary measure to keep government funded. Senators are also set to be at work in a rare Saturday session

The White House is preparing to keep only essential public services open and furlough hundreds of thousands of civil servants

The House’s right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient

In a speech in Arizona, the president warned of the danger to American institutions and the U.S. Constitution posed by the former president and his ‘extremist movement’

It’s a high-stakes opening act for Republicans, coming in the midst of a potential federal government shutdown, as they try to link the business dealings of Hunter Biden to the president. But so far they have no hard evidence of wrongdoing

Congress is at a crossroads days before a disruptive federal shutdown that would halt paychecks for many of the federal government’s roughly 2 million employees, as well as 2 million active-duty military troops and reservists

Only three presidents have been impeached in US history. Republicans want Joe Biden to be the fourth

McCarthy set up a test vote Friday, one day before the shutdown deadline, on a far-right bill rejected by President Biden, Democrats and the unruly Republican majority

The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a package of government funding bills, but it’s not at all clear that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the support needed

Congress needs to approve spending bills by October 1 in order to avoid the suspension of all non-essential public activities