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Vice President-elect Mike Pence met Thursday at the Capitol with Republican lawmakers, rallying them around the goal of repealing Obamacare.

Republicans offer no plan to repeal Obamacare as more party members express concern

August 21, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

After demanding for six years that the Affordable Care Act be gutted, Republican leaders refused Wednesday to outline concrete steps to repeal and replace it, even as members of their...

Democrats look to make deals with Trump — and divide the GOP in the process

June 20, 2019 at 5:06 a.m.

Republicans became known as the "party of no" during the Obama years because of their frequent efforts to block the president's initiatives. As congressional Democrats prepare to deal with a...

Donald Trump on election night in New York.

Now Trump has his chance to change Washington. But it might change him instead

August 21, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

On Wednesday morning, Washington awoke to a question that few, even in Republican circles, had spent much time thinking about in the past several months: What will a Donald Trump...

Eddie Creech, a tobacco, corn and bean farmer, attends a Donald Trump rally in Kinston, N.C.

Donald Trump built a political movement. Now what?

August 21, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

Donald Trump has whipped up a political movement like none other in modern politics, but there's a surprising ambivalence from his army of supporters — and even the candidate himself...

A growing number of prominent Republicans withdraw support or condemn Trump. Here’s who is speaking up

December 18, 2018 at 3:44 a.m.

The release of a recording of Donald Trump bragging about groping women drew harsh statements from both Republicans and Democrats condemning the GOP presidential nominee. Some who spoke up had already said...

Congress has second thoughts on veto override and may fix Sept. 11 bill

August 21, 2019 at 8:19 p.m.

Less than a day after Congress overrode President Obama's veto of a bill that would let 9/11 victims' families sue Saudi Arabia, top GOP leaders said they might need to...

Donald Trump talks with reporters on his campaign plane.

‘Believe me’: People say Trump’s language is affecting political discourse ‘bigly’

August 21, 2019 at 8:05 p.m.

Of all the rules of politics that Donald Trump has broken in his run for the White House, his way with words may top the list. Perhaps not since Sarah...

Law enforcement officers take protesters into custody July 20, 2016, in Cleveland during the third day of the Republican convention.

Paul Ryan presides over a GOP convention far from his own style and substance.

August 21, 2019 at 7:17 p.m.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan spent a career honing an image as one of Washington's most serious, likable and wonkish Republicans. At a recent fundraising dinner, he dazzled finance industry...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan speaks during an interview June 2 in Janesville, Wis.

Can Paul Ryan preside over a GOP convention so far from his own style and substance?

August 21, 2019 at 7:16 p.m.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan spent a career honing an image as one of Washington's most serious, likable and wonkish Republicans. At a recent fundraising dinner, he dazzled finance industry...

Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, seen here at an event in Maywood on July 1, 2016, did not attend a meeting of Senate Republicans with Donald Trump on July 7.

Trump said to slam Kirk in GOP senators meeting

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

For months, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has tried to bolster his difficult re-election bid by distancing himself from his party's polarizing presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump. On Thursday, the...

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