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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks into a vote flanked by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. A group of right-wing House Republicans pushing to load up the annual defense bill with socially conservative policies on abortion, race and gender have another demand: severe restrictions on U.S. military support for Ukraine. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) XNYT0750 XNYT0750

July 13, 2023 at 4:03 pm

House votes to limit abortion access in the military, bowing to the right VIEW

The House voted on Thursday to overturn a Pentagon policy guaranteeing abortion access to service members and to bar health services for transgender military personnel.

FILE — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters outside his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on June 12, 2023. Right-wing Republicans want to use the annual military budget and policy legislation, traditionally a bipartisan affair, as a tool to pick fights on abortion and other social issues. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) XNYT0523 XNYT0523

July 11, 2023 at 6:26 pm

Hard right presses culture war fights on defense bill, imperiling passage

Hard-right House Republicans are pushing to use the yearly bill as an opportunity to pick fights over abortion, race and transgender issues.

FILE — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on May 22, 2023. A group of hard-line Republicans hijacked the House floor on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, grinding legislative business to a halt for several hours in a striking display of ire at Speaker Kevin McCarthy for making a deal with President Biden to suspend the debt limit and banding together with Democrats to muscle it to passage. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) XNYT0932 XNYT0932

June 6, 2023 at 8:54 pm

Hard right grinds House to a halt, rebuking McCarthy for the debt deal

A group of hard-line Republicans hijacked the House floor on Tuesday, grinding legislative business to a halt for several hours in a striking display of...

FILE — A delivery of military equipment including Javelin missiles from the United States arrives at Boryspil Airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 25, 2022. The Biden administration has been under bipartisan pressure to explain how it intended to continue sending weapons to Ukraine quickly without asking Congress for more money. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) XNYT194 XNYT194

May 18, 2023 at 4:54 pm

Pentagon says accounting mistake frees up $3 billion more for Ukraine

The revised accounting frees up $3 billion of weapons that could be given to Ukraine from existing stocks, skeptical congressional staffers were told Thursday.

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May 14, 2023 at 3:17 pm

Over decades, Congress failed repeatedly to address immigration dysfunction

WASHINGTON — For nearly a quarter century, as successive waves of migrants have tried to enter and work in the United States, presidents have appealed...

April 27, 2023 at 9:30 pm

House GOP, divided over immigration, advances border crackdown plan

House Republicans on Thursday pushed ahead with a sweeping immigration crackdown after months of internal feuding that led GOP leaders to drop some of the...

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee who criticized Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, during a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border near Pharr, Texas, March 16, 2023. Republicans have been making regular trips to the border with Mexico in hopes of dramatizing the United States’ immigration challenges, but they rarely account for the reality on the ground, where the number of crossings has begun to decline. (Sergio Flores/The New York Times) XNYT224 XNYT224

March 28, 2023 at 6:47 pm

Targeting Biden’s immigration policies, Republicans attack Mayorkas

Republicans in Congress accuse the homeland security secretary of bearing personal responsibility for the drug deaths of Americans and the rapes of migrant children.

Montenegrin police officers escort an individual who is believed to be one of the most wanted fugitives, South Korean citizen, Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, Friday, March 24, 2023. South Korea’s Justice Ministry on Friday confirmed the arrest of Kwon and another unidentified individual linked to the cryptocurrency crash and said it will proceed with steps to extradite them to South Korea. Both South Korea and Montenegro are signees to the European Convention on Extradition. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

March 25, 2023 at 6:30 am

A crypto fugitive’s very public life while on the run

Do Kwon, the founder of the failed crypto company Terraform Labs, is facing charges by the authorities in both South Korea and the United States.

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FILE — Ukrainian soldiers from the 95th Air Assault Brigade load a weapon onto an armored vehicle near the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, May 25, 2022. Some Republicans and Democrats quizzed military officials about the money that has been sent to Kyiv so far and what is still to come, threatening a consensus in favor of aid. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) XNYT259 XNYT259

February 28, 2023 at 8:37 pm

Lawmakers question Pentagon on Ukraine funds, signaling fresh doubts

The questioning casts fresh doubt on whether Republicans would embrace future spending as Democrats pleaded for a clear-eyed assessment of what's needed.

People on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 22, 2023. A bipartisan consensus about the need of new legislation to counter threats from China is at risk of dissipating amid disputes about what steps to take and a Republican desires to wield the issue as a weapon against President Joe Biden. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) XNYT46 XNYT46

February 25, 2023 at 2:57 pm

Bipartisan plans to move aggressively on China face political hurdles in Congress

Republicans and Democrats are pressing for major legislation to counter rising threats from China, but mere weeks into the new Congress, a bipartisan consensus is...