Republicans

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on Jan. 8, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are moving ahead with impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they continue to make immigration a key 2024 campaign […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Colorado Rep. Ken Buck on Wednesday announced he won’t be seeking reelection and, in a sharply worded statement explaining his decision, he blamed the election denialism that has been embraced by some fellow conservatives in the House. “Too many Republican leaders are lying to America,” Buck said in a video released […]

Cheney Orr/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House has scheduled a Wednesday night vote on a Republican-led resolution to expel embattled Rep. George Santos, who maintains his innocence after being indicted on a slew of federal charges. The push to try and oust Santos is coming from fellow GOP lawmakers in the New York delegation, […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nine Republicans are officially running for speaker after almost three weeks of chaos without a leader in the House. House Republicans will hear from each candidate in a closed-door forum on Monday night. An internal secret-ballot vote will then be held on Tuesday morning, with the goal of selecting a […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several House Republicans who have voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker are seething after threats have been made against them, their offices or even their spouses — including one that a lawmaker called a “credible death threat.” The chaotic battle for the speakership presses on after Republicans twice rejected Jordan […]

ABC News Two lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle on Sunday weighed in on the ongoing disarray in the House of Representatives, after a small group of Republicans last week booted Speaker Kevin McCarthy with Democrats’ help, leaving the chamber leader-less and paralyzing one half of Congress. Washington is staring down a November deadline […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With only a few days until the start of early voting in Virginia’s high-stakes election, Republicans and Democrats are making one last push to encourage early and absentee voting in the commonwealth. Every seat in both the House of Delegates and state Senate are up for grabs this fall — […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans, who have made Hunter Biden one of their top targets, signaled they’re not satisfied with the new indictment brought against him. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel David Weiss on felony gun charges. The three criminal counts are related to his 2018 purchase of a revolver […]

Chris Clor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of influential Republicans are preparing for the possibility that their party will retake the White House next fall — and, if they do, they’re planning to scale back on the federal government’s oversight of online misinformation. The proposal is part of Project 2025, a sweeping new initiative led […]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican candidates for president and lawmakers on Capitol Hill largely fell in line, again, behind former President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he was informed that he is a target in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The target letter indicates that Trump, who is […]