Backstabber Watch

In an op-ed published by Fox News Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sang the praises of the GOP's investigations into allegations of bribery involving the Biden family – despite them being widely considered to be flubs.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is reportedly still making up to Donald Trump for comments related to Trump's electability. McCarthy, who was recently scorned by a conservative for sucking up to the "furies of Mar-a-Lago," has "zero interest" in endorsing a candidate...

Speaking briefly to reporters on Tuesday to complain about Hunter Biden not being sent to prison for two misdemeanor tax charges, Speaker Kevin McCarthy let it slip he believes former President Donald Trump will be sent to jail. 

House Republican infighting over the budget deal House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) cobbled together with President Joe Biden has created a crisis for his speakership and some GOP insiders are claiming the clock is ticking on how long he'll keep the speaker's gavel.

United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California)'s deal with President Joe Biden to increase the Treasury Department's debt ceiling and prevent a default contains revised "work requirements" for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

Appearing late Saturday night on MSNBC after it was announced that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had reached an agreement "in principle' on a budget deal, former GOP strategist Rick Wilson claimed this could be the beginning of the end for McCathy's speakership.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is caught between a rock and a hard place on the debt ceiling. On the one hand, he could easily make a deal with President Joe Biden and the Senate to raise the debt ceiling and then begin negotiations on the budget. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed ethics concerns on Thursday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was found to have accepted unreported gifts from a wealthy friend.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may have painted himself into a corner with his own debt ceiling bill that is full of unappetizing proposals that will likely fracture his fragile caucus, according to a report.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy traveled to Wall Street on Monday, the financial capital of the world, to deliver a speech at the New York Stock Exchange demanding President Joe Biden negotiate with him on the debt ceiling while he unveiled what is being called his latest “scheme”...

All of the concessions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made in his desperate bid to become House Speaker are coming back to haunt him as his caucus can't seem to get on the same page and now he is starting to point fingers at his deputies for their failings -- many of which are his fault...

House Speaker Kevin MCCarthy's decision on Saturday morning to announce a blatant attempt to interfere with investigations into possible criminal activities committed by Donald Trump is nothing less than assisting the former president in once again inciting violence...

Kevin McCarthy just came back from a press trip to our southern border, full of talk about how bad the Biden administration is doing with asylum and immigration. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to stay out of the Republican presidential primary, but that position may be impossible to maintain. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) enraged Donald Trump this week when he appeared to suggest the former president might not be the strongest candidate to win the general election in 2024 – before swiftly walking it back under a wave of MAGA anger.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) has survived the first five months of the speakership by catering just enough to the GOP’s right flank without alienating moderates, a delicate balancing act that’s helped him keep the job he barely won. That balancing act seems to be collapsing. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Wednesday he was launching a commission tasked with looking at budget cuts – and he suggested Social Security and Medicare could come under his scalpel. 

Early indications suggest President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) have the numbers to pass their debt limit deal through Congress, but several procedural hurdles could torpedo the deal, one of which is the of the speaker’s own making, The Wall Street Journal reports.

As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continues to negotiate a deal to avoid a debt crisis, members of the far-right Freedom Caucus are growing furious with him over broken promises he made to them.

Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) got slapped with 13 different criminal charges on Wednesday, including multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering.Despite this, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is still resisting calls for the embattled New York congressman to resign.

A C-SPAN caller used colorful language on Monday to oppose the power that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has given Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the 118th U.S. Congress.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appears to have granted a request from Rep. Matt Gaetz to include work requirements for Medicaid in a bill that would raise the nation's debt limit.

The showdown between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden is coming up as the debt ceiling and budget battles approach. Biden released his budget publicly, but the Republicans, thus far, have no plan of their own. 

In an op-ed for the Fresno Bee this Friday, the paper's Editorial Board pointed out that GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is taking direct aim at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his investigation into Donald Trump's hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, accusing him of...

According to a sworn affidavit from the U.S. Capitol Police's top lawyer, House Republicans ignored the agency's request to review and approve Jan. 6 video footage before it was made public, Politico reports.