Kevin McCarthy

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

While some government entities will be exempt, others will be severely curtailed. Social Security checks, for example, will still go out. But federal agencies will stop all actions deemed non-essential

Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday the House would return next week to start voting on the latest plan, which would leave him with just five days until the Sept. 30 deadline

His latest attempt to move ahead with a traditionally popular defense funding bill as a first step toward keeping the government funded was shattered by a core group of Republicans who refused to vote with the increasingly endangered speaker

In one dramatic sign of defeat Tuesday, House Republicans were even voting against their own defense bill. During a rowdy afternoon vote, the usually popular bill was turned back from consideration

The hearing is expected to focus on ‘constitutional and legal questions’ that surround the allegations of Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter’s overseas businesses

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said that Ukrainian aid must be considered as a stand-alone bill. But the Senate is on a path of combining it with other priorities, possibly as part of the short-term spending bill to keep the government funded

The House Speaker told his Republican conference that they should be prepared to stay through this weekend to pass a stopgap measure to keep government offices open past the Sept. 30 deadline. But many are bracing for a shutdown

With a government shutdown looming, McCarthy is confronting the same stubborn problem that has driven Republicans before him from the speaker’s job: trying to lead a ruptured GOP majority

Some GOP lawmakers are pushing for it to move quickly rather than drag into the 2024 election year

McCarthy claims that his party’s monthslong investigations of Biden have uncovered that the president lied about his knowledge of his family’s business dealings

The Republican leader faces mounting pressure from his right flank to take action against Biden while he also is struggling to pass legislation needed to avoid a federal government shutdown at the end of the month

GOP hardliners are calling for the U.S. president to be impeached and are threatening a government shutdown if their demands are not met

The Republican Speaker faces hard-right Republicans who reject the deal he struck over the summer with Biden on spending levels and are demanding further cuts. Starting a formal Biden impeachment inquiry could help

An official with the Office of Management and Budget says lawmakers would very likely need to pass a temporary spending measure in September to prevent a potential partial shutdown

Some Republicans are eager to go after Biden over claims of financial misconduct involving his son Hunter, but the Democratic president has not been shown to have done anything wrong

The conservative demands include adding legislation that aims to build more wall at the southern border and restrict asylum, and no ‘blank check’ for Ukraine war funding

The mainland’s ruling Communist Party claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and says it has no right to conduct foreign relations

The stopgap measure would fund operations into December, but McCarthy needs support from Republicans who are loath to agree as they push for steeper cuts

While price increases have cooled over the past year — the inflation rate has dropped from 9% to 3.2% — most economists say little to none of the drop came from the law