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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just hours after another embarrassing setback for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in his quest to avert a government shutdown, members are headed home for the weekend – signaling that with just nine days to go, there is no funding deal in sight. There won’t be any other House votes for […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee on Tuesday announced it would hold a public hearing on President Joe Biden’s family’s business dealings next Thursday Sept. 28, the first since the House launched its impeachment inquiry, sources told ABC News. “We’re going to have three credible witnesses,” chairman James […]

Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans from both sides of the conference came to a deal on a short-term government funding bill this weekend. The effort was led by GOP Reps. Dusty Johnson, House Freedom Caucus chair Scott Perry, Stephanie Bice, Chip Roy and Kelly Armstrong. The deal includes a one-month continuing resolution, funding […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace warned Sunday that “everything’s on the table” as rank-and-file House Republicans like her spar with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over high-profile issues including the federal government spending battle. Asked about other members of her conference threatening to bring a so-called motion to vacate, Mace said on ABC’s “This […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries argued on Sunday that his Republicans colleagues are “in the middle of a civil war” over the best way forward amid a newly launched impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, an ongoing spending fight and another looming shutdown of the federal government. “Civil war has the following […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight Committee will be launching a Republican-led probe into the federal response to the Maui wildfires, claiming Biden had “failed” in that effort when it came things such as government aid and housing assistance. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency leadership signed solely by House Republicans, […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced he was ordering House Republicans to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, alleging a “culture of corruption” involving him and his family. McCarthy had signaled the impeachment inquiry for weeks, but his announcement Tuesday comes at a time when he is facing mounting pressure from GOP hard-liners, who threaten […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the House returns from recess Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a new leadership showdown. He’s caught in the middle between a government shutdown threat from House Republican hard-liners demanding spending cuts, opposed to Ukraine aid and threatening to oust him if their demands aren’t met — and […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced Tuesday he has been diagnosed with a “very treatable blood cancer” and has started treatment. “After a few days of not feeling like myself this past week, I had some blood work done,” the Louisiana Republican said in a statement. “The results uncovered some […]

Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday released a 19-page memo with “new information obtained in the [Oversight] Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes,” according to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the panel’s chairman. But an initial review of the document indicates that the conduct it describes draws heavily from […]