The GOP can’t evade the structural realities that make it so hard to elect a speaker—and which will make it impossible for that new speaker to govern.

The New Republic spoke to the New Jersey congressman about his run for Senate and the chaos in the House.

The Republican Party’s sequel to last January’s Kevin McCarthy crisis is not going well.

There’s a procedural way out of this madness—if a few Republicans have the guts to pursue it.

Sure, it’s a long, long shot. But in a House where the unprecedented keeps happening, who’s to rule out anything?

If Kevin McCarthy’s successor is going to need future support from across the aisle, it will come with a price tag.

The chaos of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster has breached the upper chamber, where GOP members are worried about another deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

In the Republican speaker’s darkest hour, it’s the young Democratic leader who has flexed his political muscles by unifying his famously fractious party.

Far-right conservatives dismiss the Biden administration’s warning that nearly seven million women and children could lose nutrition benefits.

Disagreements between mainstream members of the GOP caucus and their far-right colleagues are getting personal.

Census data showed a dramatic increase in child poverty from 2021 to 2022, due in part to the expiration of the expanded credit.

Conservatives in the upper chamber aren’t quite as rabid about ousting the president as their counterparts in the House, but it could become their problem soon enough.

The WIC program, which provides vital resources to the neediest families, usually gets the funding it needs without a struggle. Not this time.

As the minority leader’s health concerns spill out in public view, his Senate colleagues have retreated behind closed doors and gerontocratic traditions.

The upcoming deliberations over the farm bill will consume a considerable amount of lawmakers’—and lobbyists’—time.

The anti-trans amendments in the House defense bill are the latest shot in the GOP’s 2024 campaign.

Even the military isn’t safe from the GOP’s war on wokeness.

Nearly two years after the credit expired, Democrats are pushing forward with legislation to dramatically reduce child poverty, despite GOP opposition.

His new deal with House hard-liners is a dead letter in the Senate.

Conservatives grumble that the debt ceiling deal was insufficient. Can they force new talks on work requirements?