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Ron DeSantis faces heat from both sides on Obamacare repeal

On live television last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis insinuated that cancer patients could get the care they needed at their local emergency rooms...  Read more

The return of the debt ceiling

When Wednesday ends, the federal government won't be able to go any further into debt until Congress gives its permission...  Read more

The Trumpcare advantage

Conservatives were jubilant just a month ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, hailing President Trump as a conquering hero who would advance the cause of conservatism and potentially even redefine it...  Read more

The Puritanical Love Doctor Is In

Relations with married women. Any situation where that’s a-ok?...  Read more

Ignore the Deniers: The Murder Rate Is Up Significantly

For roughly two decades, the United States enjoyed a marked decline in its crime rates...  Read more

Conservatives ratchet up pressure to ditch Senate rules

Republicans want to use budget reconciliation for measures not currently permitted under the process...  Read more

Conservative-leaning group launches Gorsuch ads targeting red-state Senate Democrats

Concerned Veterans for America is launching a series of web ads boosting Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and targeting Senate Democrats in Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia...  Read more

In talks with Trump, Conservatives make Ryan the scapegoat

Instead of rebuking Trump, conservative groups are dissing the AHCA as "Ryancare."...  Read more

Could Trumpcare Sink Republicans in 2018?

Not much over the past couple of days has made the passage of the American Health Care Act seem more likely...  Read more

Mnuchin Warns Congress on Debt Ceiling

As tension continues to mount on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned several Congressional leaders on Wednesday that America would face the debt ceiling next week...  Read more

The power of women

A woman did not finally win the White House in November, but other women fill posts in which they are important influences in American politics...  Read more

Trump calls Planned Parenthood's bluff

Each time Congress debates whether to defund Planned Parenthood, the inevitable refrain from the group's supporters is that the money it receives from taxpayers doesn't pay for abortions and that, besides, abortion makes up just 3 percent of its services...  Read more

Trump, Xi to meet at Mar-a-Lago next month

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next month at Trump's Florida club in their first face-to-face meeting since Trump took the White House...  Read more

CPB needs a breath of fresh air from federal funding

Today, this American life includes a daunting national debt...  Read more

Strong jobs report beats expectations: 237,000 jobs, unemployment 4.7%

The U.S. economy gained 235,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday in a highly reassuring jobs report...  Read more

Paul Ryan Explains How Obamacare Incentivizes Healthy People Out of the Market

House speaker Paul Ryan got himself into trouble Thursday for broadly describing why the GOP considers the risk-sharing under Obamacare between younger and older consumers a failure, leaving out the details that got reporters questioning his understanding of insurance...  Read more

Trump and Russia: Washington's fashionable conspiracy theory

"Does intelligence exist that can definitively answer the following question, whether there were improper contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials?"...  Read more

House GOP targets VA's 'bad apples' in vote next week

House Republicans are gearing up for a vote next week on legislation that would make it easier to fire, demote and strip bonus awards from corrupt or negligent officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs...  Read more