The Republican physician said he extracted commitments that Kennedy wouldn't sow distrust in vaccines before voting to confirm him.

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.

The tax package, which does not include retirement plan provisions but hits larger endowments, will now head to the House Budget Committee where Republican lawmakers will combine it with other pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda to form "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill" they’re aiming to pass this year.

The fight has pitted the GOP's top tax writer against a determined bloc of House Republicans from high-tax states. It has also created divisions between the pro-SALT Republicans.

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

The House is pushing forward on President Trump's "one, big beautiful bill," as lawmakers weighed some of the most contentious parts of the major budget package aimed at addressing the president's defense,

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.

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.

Just more than one-third of Democrats are optimistic about the future of their party as it attempts to recalibrate after losing the White House and the Senate in November, according to a new

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.