• Join Puck

    Directly Supporting Authors

    A new economic model in which writers are also partners in the business.

    Personalized Subscriptions

    Customize your settings to receive the newsletters you want from the authors you follow.

    Stay in the Know

    Connect directly with Puck talent through email and exclusive events.

  • What is puck? Newsletters Authors Podcasts Events Gift Puck Careers

House Republicans

Lauren Boebert matt gaetz marjorie taylor greene
Tina Nguyen • May 1, 2024

A Far Right Exodus on Israel

Yes, the majority of the party is still fervently aligned with Netanyahu and his war in Gaza. But a growing number of House lawmakers, bolstered by the isolationist (and occasionally antisemitic) far right, are beginning to view Israel more as a bargaining chip than a sacred cow.
Tina Nguyen • April 24, 2024
Battle Hymn of the Republicans
mike johnson Marjorie Taylor Greene
House hardliners are fuming, once again, after Mike Johnson jammed Ukraine funding through Congress, received CNN’s blessing, and called M.T.G.’s bluff. Do they have any cards left to play?
Tina Nguyen • April 17, 2024
The Greene Mile
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Scenes from the latest House Republican mutiny-in-progress.
michael mccaul
Julia Ioffe • April 2, 2024
McCaul to Action
A bracing conversation with Michael McCaul, the G.O.P. head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the complex task of convincing House Republicans to help save Ukraine.
mike johnson
Tina Nguyen • March 27, 2024
Johnson Melancholia
Republican hardliners, outraged over yet another vote in which they were sidelined, are slowly capitulating to the reality that their motion-to-vacate threat has lost its oomph—and that Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t speaking for them anymore.
jim jordan
Tina Nguyen • February 28, 2024
Crossing Jordan
A timely conversation with Rep. Jim Jordan, the irascible House Republican leader, about the conference’s shifting red lines on the budget, the border, and funding for Ukraine.
mike johnson
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.
James Lankford Kyrsten Sinema
Abby Livingston • February 5, 2024
The Circus on the Hill
News, notes, observations, and horrors surrounding the latest machinations on Capitol Hill.
donald trump border wall
Tina Nguyen • January 31, 2024
Law & Border
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).
Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose two votes next year if he wants to pass bills without relying on Democrats.
Tina Nguyen • December 20, 2023
The G.O.P. Hardliners Who Stole Christmas
As budget armageddon approaches and Ukraine funding runs out, Republicans on the Hill are increasingly divided about whether to force a compromise with Democrats, to ritually sacrifice Johnson, or to succumb to their own impossible purity tests.