Several Republicans in the presidential field had endorsed a government shutdown, at odds with Mr. McCarthy. By Neil Vigdor The ouster of Representative Kevin McCarthy as House speaker on Tuesday ...

Earlier this week, amid news that Kevin McCarthy would exit Congress at the end of the month, an unusual admission from the former speaker went viral. “When you look at the Democrats, they actually ...

Kevin McCarthy squeaked out a win in his campaign of revenge against the eight Republicans who voted to remove him as House speaker. But the California Republican is not getting much of the credit for ...

Representative Matt Gaetz is facing a House Committee inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of funds. Representative Kevin McCarthy has argued Mr. Gaetz’s move against his ...

TWO MONTHS before the French revolution in 1789, Congress met for the first time, in New York City’s Federal Hall. In the intervening 234 years no speaker of the House of Representatives has been ...

Rep. Kevin McCarthy pumped the brakes on reports that he was resigning, telling reporters in the Capitol that he intends to finish his term and then some. Reports indicated on Friday that the ...

What is perhaps saddest about Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House on Oct. 3 is that it came about in response to a brief glimmer of bipartisan consensus. For a few hours, the Congress ...

For a brief moment after the insurrection, Donald Trump’s name was mud. The Republican Party had shunned him and even briefly contemplated impeaching the former president in order to formally ...