Republicans officially reached the hard part of the effort to pass a budget plan addressing several of President Donald Trump’s top priorities this week.In the House of Representatives, markups took place on Tuesday for two of the main parts of the “big beautiful bill” Trump wants Congress to pass as one massive package.

Voters still trust the Republican Party more to deal with national security, but on the issue of taxes, Democrats are now tied with the GOP in terms of voter trust.

With Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore facing mounting criticism from within his party, Republican insiders are increasingly looking

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy won the Ohio Republican Party's endorsement a year before the 2026 primary.

The timing of the move was opposed by the former recipient of the endorsement, Gov. Mike DeWine, who twice received the party's endorsement in 2018 and 2022. Each endorsement was also done far closer to the primary election, after a sizeable bulk of the campaign had already run its course.

The poll finds that about half of Republicans, 55%, are very or somewhat optimistic about their party’s future, up from 47% last summer. Still, only about 3 in 10 Republicans are optimistic about the state of U.S. politics, up from about 1 in 10 last summer.

Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts will cause 8.6 million people to lose health insurance by 2034, an estimate shows. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said it will cost Republicans seats in Congress.

Members of a key Congressional committee met for nearly 18 hours for a markup of the budget reconciliation bill.