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When President Joe Biden suggested that Republicans want to slash Medicare and Social Security it brought howls of protests from the GOP side of the aisle during the State of the Union address

Biden's speech offered plenty of opportunity to present a counter-narrative to continued taxes and spending. Instead Sanders went a different direction.

‘I think you see that I’ve been recognized nationally as being somebody who would be different,’ DeSantis says in the footage shared by the former president

The extremist who has supported QAnon is firmly on her way to becoming a senior figure in the party as a key ally of the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy

It's not an easy job corralling votes from House Republicans and trying to hold together a fractious majority well enough to pass party priorities

House Republicans want to leverage must-pass legislation to raise the debt limit to extract federal spending cuts, but President Biden and congressional Democrats aren't interested in negotiating.

House Republicans are seeking to embarrass president over retention of papers from time as vice-president

"He cost us the White House in '20 and he cost us the Senate again and again," Ryan lamented

Former Speaker takes shot at ex-president in CNN interview

Although the focus of most recent political news had been Kevin McCarthy’s increasingly desperate attempts to grovel his way to becoming America’s first invertebrate speaker of the House of Representatives, buried in the hoopla are genuine decisions to be made about how the nation’s democracy should function.

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.