Republican Party

Thirty-five House Republicans joined Democrats in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, risking the wrath of former President Donald Trump and flouting GOP leaders who condemned the proposal as unfairly partisan and unneeded.

U.S. House Republicans on May 12 ousted conservative Liz Cheney, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, from her powerful leadership role in a move that tightens the former president's grip on the party.

In the most caustic sign yet of deepening GOP divisions, former President Donald Trump blistered Mitch McConnell as a "political hack" on Feb. 16, days after the Senate's top Republican denounced him as the inciter of U.S. Capitol attack.

The World Health Organization on Feb. 5 called on vaccine makers to dramatically boost production, as U.S. president Joe Biden warned the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was pushing the United States towards "breaking point".

Donald Trump met with US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in Florida on Jan. 28 amid a tug of war over the Republican Party's future, with congressional leadership appearing eager to present a united front with the former president.

Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump's former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, is running for Arkansas governor, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press.

President-elect Joe Biden laid out a $1.9 trillion emergency relief plan Thursday night that will serve as an early test of his ability to steer the nation out of a pandemic disaster and rapidly deteriorating economy — and his promise to unite a divided Congress.

The House made history Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, indicting President Trump a week before he leaves office for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths.

After Vice President Mike Pence rejected calls from lawmakers to use the 25th amendment of the US Constitution to remove Donald Trump from office on Tuesday, impeachment of Donald Trump is much more likely.

Republicans offered only modest reproach when President Donald Trump said there were "very fine people" on both sides of a white supremacist rally. They stayed in line when Trump was caught pressuring a foreign leader and later defended his handling of a deadly pandemic.