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Border Policy

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Tina Nguyen • February 7, 2024

The Johnson Piñata

The embattled House Speaker is enduring the lion’s share of Republican finger-pointing for yesterday’s humiliating, double-barreled legislative defeat. But as usual, there’s plenty of blame to go around.
Abby Livingston • February 5, 2024
The Circus on the Hill
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News, notes, observations, and horrors surrounding the latest machinations on Capitol Hill.
Tina Nguyen • January 31, 2024
Law & Border
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The real inside conversation in the House about the G.O.P.’s nihilistic decision to convert the border crisis from a legislative matter into a stump issue (and convenient Trump talking point).
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside the Speakers Balcony at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. McCarthy held the media availability with reporters to discuss a potential impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Joe Biden that would focus on the Biden family's alleged financial misconduct. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Tina Nguyen • September 20, 2023
McCarthy’s Chaos Caucus
Beneath the façade of a unified opposition to the compromise G.O.P. spending plan, the hardline bloc is really a confederation of “caucuses of one,” as a House Republican insider put it, each with their own individual incentives, which McCarthy could use to break them apart—if they don’t get rid of him first.
Chris Sununu said there’s a “61 percent chance” he runs for president—his words—and 39 percent chance that he just plays the role of kingmaker in New Hampshire.
Tara Palmeri • May 18, 2023
Chris Sununu Talks ’24
The perennially on-the-precipice candidate offers his most candid thoughts yet on the White House, DeSantis, and whether he’ll soon face his “good friends”—Mike, Tim, Asa, and Nikki—on the debate stage.