The Latest Breaking News from The Freedom Caucus

What do you get when you combine a tiny legislative majority, a former president itching for influence and a rogue group of lawmakers who like making headlines? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s hellish life these days. The pressure has been fierce on McCarthy to fashion an agreement with his caucus to…

A split among House Republicans could lead to a shutdown and the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg report

Short-term solutions and governing from crisis to crisis isn't working.

U.S. senators and representatives returning from their summer vacations will need to shake off their suntans in quick time and get down to business.

The hardline Republicans want to shift the focus of Congress to their own agenda of opposing, investigating and even impeaching the president or members of his administration.

Demands include Congress addressing the ‘unprecedented weaponisation of the Justice Department and the FBI’

House conservatives in a group known as the Freedom Caucus have unveiled a list of demands they want included in a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running after the end of September

The House Freedom Caucus will oppose the stopgap funding measure unless it includes conservatives' policy priorities.

Some House GOP hard-liners say Speaker Kevin McCarthy shouldn't rule out a shutdown to achieve spending cuts and social policy changes sought by the far right of his party.