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State Rep. RJ May was a founding member of the South Carolina hard-line conservative group. He was a lead strategist and ...
House Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Harris introduced a bill Friday placing limits on a congressional agency’s ability to block President Donald Trump’s spending decisions. The bill would require the ...
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., seeking unity in a place it’s rarely found, is telling House Republicans he will serve as their speaker only if they embrace him by week’s end as their consensus candidate.
The original Freedom Caucus chairman, Jim Jordan, is one of Trump’s most reliable allies in Congress and a mainstay on right-wing cable news—and was a serious contender to be speaker of the ...
Freedom Caucus makes GOP 'look like fools' Asked what advice he'd give current GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he seeks to avoid a government shutdown, Ryan quipped, "I've seen the movie ...
The caucus made its mark shortly after its founding that October, when it was instrumental in forcing out then-Speaker John Boehner and installing Paul Ryan in his place.
And, as a result, you don’t treat them as backbenchers.” As one Freedom Caucus staffer told me, “The entire point of the Speaker’s fight was that it wouldn’t matter who was behind the gavel.
Had there been no conservative opposition to Speaker McCarthy, it is highly likely the legislative oligarchy that existed under Speakers Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan, and John Boehner would continue in ...
Freedom Caucus members also won a slew of other major concessions, ... “Sometimes you have an easy takeoff and a whole lot of turbulence — like with Speaker Paul Ryan,” Gaetz said.
Before we jump in on the troubles faced by Kevin McCarthy, take me back to the founding of the Freedom Caucus. There were 11 of us who were the founders, ... here’s no Paul Ryan as backup.
Two prior Republican speakers, John Boehner and Paul Ryan were pushed out as Speakers by the Freedom Caucus. Ryan failed to get a critical Republican bill replacing Obama’s Affordable Care Act ...
Paul Ryan said there was no one "better suited" to lead House Republicans than Kevin McCarthy. During an ABC News interview, the ex-speaker argued that McCarthy has been "good for conservatives ...