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There is no former governor Nikki Haley ‘moment’

03 Jan 2024

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley went into damage control this week over her comments about the Civil War. At an event on Wednesday in Berlin, New Hampshire, someone asked...

Trump could galvanise partymen around him

01 Jan 2024

For the second time in as many weeks, a state disqualified former president Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. A week after Colorado disqualified Trump from the 2024 Republican primary...

Biden warned about using immigrants as a ‘bargaining chip’

15 Dec 2023

And just like that, the first year of the 118th Congress came to a close. With no aid to Ukraine on the horizon, no aid to Israel, no potential breakthrough...

Obamacare: A distraction for Trump, opportunity for Biden

05 Dec 2023

There’s an old saying when it comes to health care policy: don’t mess with what people already have. Much in the way that Americans think Congress is irrevocably broken but...

House Speaker Mike Johnson faces duelling interests

15 Nov 2023

Here we go again. While President Joe Biden heads to the West Coast for the APEC summit in San Francisco, Congress will return today as it faces a looming...

Who the hell wants to be a GOP speaker anyway?

15 Oct 2023

On Wednesday, House Republicans gave themselves a half-victory when they nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise to be speaker. This came after a standoff between Scalise, the number two in the...

The race for House speaker can hardly be called a race

12 Oct 2023

The battle for Kevin McCarthy to save his speakership is over. The battle for the House Republican conference — and indeed, the entire House of Representatives — is about to...

Matt Gaetz has thrown the House into chaos

03 Oct 2023

At the beginning of the new Congress, newly-elected representative Cory Mills (R-FL) handed his fellow Republicans inert grenades. It was an apt welcoming gift since House speaker Kevin McCarthy effectively...

Schumer and McCarthy caved and rewarded bad behaviour

22 Sep 2023

Economics often teaches about the concept of “moral hazard,” wherein no guard against risk exists, thereby encouraging one party to continue to engage in risky behaviour. The idea gained prominence...

Republican party at war over Ukraine funding

20 Sep 2023

The fight amongst Republicans about how to keep the government open has many facets, but perhaps one of the most fraught ones includes whether to include support for Ukraine. And...

Eric Garcia

Eric Garcia is the Washington bureau chief and senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent.

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