House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), shown speaking to reporters after meeting with President Biden and Democratic leaders at the White House last week, is trying to keep his finger on the ...
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer, from left, visit with President Biden in the Oval Office earlier this month ...
The loser? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) got very little for his threat to crash the U.S. economy by refusing to increase the debt ceiling. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) No ...
The idea of imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients has a long and distinguished history. Distinguished, that is, by pointlessness and failure. Healthcare experts and economists have long ...
On April 19, in introducing House Republicans' stillborn proposal for negotiations to raise the government's debt ceiling, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) said this: "You know, if you ...