Kevin McCarthy

The Republican plan would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep spending restrictions that Democrats oppose

The Republican leader is using the legislation as a strategic move, a starting point to draw President Biden into negotiations that the White House has, so far, been unwilling to have over the debt crisis

The package would limit future federal spending increases to 1% a year, a proposal that has almost no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate

In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Republican leader lashed out at President Joe Biden for refusing to engage in budget cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis

On Monday, he will speak at the New York Stock Exchange. It’s one more sign of his rising influence, but he has an uneasy grip on the speaker’s gavel

U.S.-Chinese relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades due to disputes over the status of Taiwan, which split with China in 1949 after a civil war

The high-profile encounter Wednesday between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is designed to boost support for the island government

The Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles issued a statement Monday saying it opposed any ‘any form of contact’ between Taiwan authorities and the U.S.

A new Republican majority in the House is itching for a spending showdown. They blame what they view as excessive federal spending for inflation and for the growing national debt

He will be the first U.S. president to face criminal charges, which remain unknown but are related to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign that carried the Republican to the White House

President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit is fraught for both Taiwan and the U.S. because China views Taiwan as its territory and treats any dealings between U.S. and Taiwanese officials as a challenge to its sovereignty

China has demanded that no U.S. officials meet with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, who departed Wednesday on her trip, which includes visits to Guatemala, Belize and Los Angeles

The president is trying to shape public sentiment as he faces off with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about whether the federal government should raise its legal borrowing capacity

The House Speaker says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position on lifting America’s borrowing authority could ‘hold dire ramifications for the entire nation’

Critics say it is a burdensome proposal that would fuel a far-right movement that has resulted in book bans and restrictions aimed at transgender students

The override failed on a 219-200 vote mostly along party lines as most Democrats opposed

House Republicans are promising a season of direct congressional intervention in local affairs

Trump loyalists are being tested as the former president prepares for the unprecedented possibility that he may soon face criminal charges for his part in a hush money scheme

The ambivalence raises questions about whether the former president still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did before the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

The reaction underscores the political risks faced by would-be opponents who are eager to convince voters that it is time to move on from the former president

Republicans and Democrats have been dancing around each other about the need to raise the government’s legal borrowing authority

The president’s package of tax and spending priorities is unlikely to pass the House or Senate as proposed

Hackers who broke into a Washington, DC health insurance marketplace stole sensitive personal data on members of Congress, their employees and family

Two of the measures heard Tuesday would create a “parents’ bill of rights” to expand parental oversight over curriculum and school activities

Handed some 41,000 hours of January 6 security footage, the conservative commentator is working to bend perceptions of the violent, grueling siege into a narrative favorable to Donald Trump

Lawmakers sought to demonstrate unity and the panel’s top Democrat made clear that he doesn’t want a “clash of civilizations” but a durable peace

McCarthy vowed Tuesday to eventually make roughly 42,000 hours of sensitive Capitol Police security videos available to the broader public “as soon as possible”