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Luna files discharge petition to force vote on stock trading ban

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed a discharge petition on Tuesday in an attempt to bypass House Republican leadership to force a vote on a bill to...

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Freedom Caucus members stall House floor action over SCORE Act

A handful of members in the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday delayed action in the House in protest of a bill that regulates compensation college...

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For Republicans, it’s crunch time on health care

For Republicans, it’s crunch time on ObamaCare.  GOP leaders return to Capitol Hill this week facing a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act...

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Johnson counters Thune on Russian sanctions bill process: ‘Not my understanding’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) assertion that a bill to expand Russian sanctions would start in the...

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GOP leaders Mike Johnson, John Thune fall out of sync on Epstein, Arctic Frost

Friction is emerging in the once unified GOP relationship between Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.). The two...

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House unanimously passes repeal of phone records provision that could enrich senators

The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill repealing a new law that would allow senators to sue for substantial sums if they aren’t notified...

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House scuttles Cory Mills censure as GOP lawmakers battle one another

The House on Wednesday scuttled a resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and remove him from his committees over a swath of personal...

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Boebert yells at Republicans on House floor after censure of Democrat fails

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) yelled and wagged her finger at her Republican colleagues on the House floor Tuesday night after the chamber rejected a...

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House rejects resolution to censure House Democrat over texting Epstein during hearing

The House on Tuesday evening rejected a House Freedom Caucus-pushed resolution to formally censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett and...

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Trump fails to bend Republicans on Epstein vote, showing rare limit of influence over GOP

Congress’ lopsided passage of an Epstein files bill on Tuesday marked a rare instance of President Trump losing control of congressional...

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House overwhelmingly votes to release Epstein files

The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill directing the Department of Justice to release the files related to the late convicted sex...

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Freedom Caucus pushes to censure Democrat over texting Epstein during hearing

Members of the House Freedom Caucus are pushing a resolution to formally censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett and to remove her from...

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Republicans clash over surprise phone records provision that could enrich senators

Republicans are at odds over an effort to unwind a controversial provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that would allow senators to...

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Trump pulls endorsement of Greene amid growing rift

President Trump late Friday announced he is pulling his endorsement and support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and would support a primary...

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Epstein furor takes over in the House

The furor surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is in full force with the return of the House and the end of the government shutdown. A months-long discharge...

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Johnson speeds up vote on Epstein files to next week after discharge petition

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he will bring a vote on a bill to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein next week, speeding up the process after...

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Trump, allies reach out to Boebert, Mace ahead of possible Epstein vote

President Trump and other administration officials reached out to key Republicans who have signed on to an effort to force a vote on releasing files...

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House set to end historic shutdown as Republicans claim victory

The House returns Wednesday to vote on a spending package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history — an outcome widely viewed as a...

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Coming end of shutdown tees up health care test for Republicans 

The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. The coming...

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House GOP Budget Chair Jodey Arrington says he won’t seek reelection

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, and will depart Congress after a...

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Heritage president apologizes for Carlson defense in brutal leaked all-staff meeting

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for his controversial video defending Tucker Carlson, and faced brutal criticism from...

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Speaker Johnson warns against giving 'platform' to antisemitism after Tucker Carlson’s Nick Fuentes interview

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday warned against giving a “platform” to antisemitic things Nick Fuentes says in wake of Tucker Carlson’s...

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The Movement: Mike Pence sounds off on Tucker Carlson, Heritage, Steve Bannon, RFK 

Former Vice President Mike Pence sees an opening for the right to “rediscover” what it means to be a conservative — saying Tucker Carlson, Steve...

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Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy

Ryan Neuhaus, who until Friday was chief of staff to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, left the conservative think tank in the wake of an...

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Heritage Foundation shakes up staff in wake of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts announced staff reassignments on Friday in the wake of the conservative uproar over his statement...

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Civil war erupts on the right after Heritage president's Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes comments

A civil war over the direction of the conservative movement and who should be considered part of it erupted after Heritage Foundation President Kevin...

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House Republicans grow anxious about Speaker Johnson's extended shutdown recess

House Republicans are growing anxious about how they will make up for lost time after Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) move to keep the House out of...

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Speaker Johnson backs Trump on nuclear testing: 'It’s a deterrent'

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gave backup to President Trump when asked about the president vowing to begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time...

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Democrats vote against 'clean' GOP bill to end shutdown despite union pressure

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept...

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House Republican introduces bill to fund WIC during shutdown

Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)...

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The Movement: When does Trump 2028 become a serious push?

Is there a point at which Republicans and the broader conservative movement take President Trump’s third-term push seriously and start trying to...

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Speaker Johnson says GOP working on Republican health care plan amid shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is working with the chairs of three House committees to...

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Republicans grapple with shutdown – and why more are blaming the GOP

Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they...

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Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government...

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GOP floats funding extension to December 2026 amid shutdown drama

Republicans on Capitol Hill are discussing extending current government funding levels until December 2026 as debate heats up about the length of a...

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GOP leaders defend Trump’s East Wing White House renovation

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) gave impassioned defenses of President Trump’s demolition of the White...

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GOP leaders eye new stopgap spending measure to end shutdown

Republican leaders are making plans for a new, longer continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels as the government shutdown...

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Johnson touts Oversight panel Epstein investigation as discharge petition looms

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) praised the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in a press conference...

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Chip Roy floats nuclear option on Senate filibuster to end shutdown

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Monday floated the use of the “nuclear option” to end the shutdown and get around Senate filibuster rules that require...

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Speaker Johnson says Trump ‘No Kings’ AI video was satire

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday dismissed an AI-generated video President Trump posted, showing him wearing a crown in a fighter jet and...

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Speaker ‘Mad Mike’ Johnson becomes voice of GOP shutdown strategy

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is showing his anger as he becomes perhaps the most prominent Republican figure in the GOP’s stubborn, uncompromising...

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Young Republicans group chat poses dilemma for GOP 

To condemn or not to condemn? That is the question for Republican officials after a Young Republicans group chat containing racist and antisemitic...

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Republican says 'ruse' that 'obscured' swastika in American flag targeted GOP offices 

Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) said Thursday that the swastika inside of an American flag pictured in his office this week was “indistinguishable from an...

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Attorney for Rep. Cory Mills's accuser calls for removal from office, hints at criminal charges

An attorney for the woman granted a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) said she hopes he is removed from public office, and hinted...

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Arizona attorney general threatens legal action if Johnson doesn't seat recently elected Democrat

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) on Tuesday threatened legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delays swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect...

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Johnson: ‘We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday that the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the...

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Dominion Voting Systems sold and renamed as Liberty Vote

Dominion Voting Systems, the voting technology company that was at the center of controversy and false stolen-election claims after President...

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Kelly, Gallego confront Speaker Johnson outside his office

Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) got in a confrontation Wednesday with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after they staged a surprise...

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Johnson, in shift, signals no vote during shutdown for military pay

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday signaled opposition to moving a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government...

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GOP leaders point to Capitol Police missed paychecks as shutdown drags on

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) are directing attention to looming missed pay for Capitol...

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