GOP establishment

It’s becoming pretty clear that Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., desperately wants voters to forget his role in helping sink Ed Martin’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Throughout the past week, the Tarheel…

Throughout the 2024 election cycle, Republicans pledged that, if elected, they would use their congressional majorities to reverse the disastrous policies enacted by President Biden and Democrats. Whether it was bringing down Bidenflation…

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is refusing to say whether he’ll support Ed Martin as the next U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, The Federalist has learned. A former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, Martin has served as…

Is Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., trying to sabotage his 2026 reelection bid? It’s a question worth asking when considering that the Tarheel State’s senior senator seems to be doing everything in his power to betray his constituents ahead of…

Fighting against the wishes of their voters is a classic Republican pastime — and this week is no different. When they apparently thought nobody was looking, a cabal of GOP senators comprised of Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Utah’s John Curtis,…

In his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Trump said something about illegal immigration that has become obvious since he took office in January: The border crisis under President Biden was a policy the Democrats…

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made commendable progress in identifying areas of waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal government. But failure by congressional Republicans to codify cuts…

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may be nearing the end of his political career, but that doesn’t mean he’s done stabbing Republican voters in the back. During the past few days, the former Senate GOP leader has voted against several of…

Following widespread backlash to their establishment antics, Florida’s legislative leadership came to a compromise with Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday to advance legislation assisting with President Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal…

Weeks after the 2024 election, The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson predicted in these pages that the biggest impediment to President Donald Trump’s agenda wouldn’t be Democrats, “but establishment Republicans.” Not even a month into…