GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee exclusively told Breitbart News that he’s against increasing the number of H1B visas to import foreign workers, unlike Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) who both have advocated for increasing H1B visas.
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, who was criticized for how she moderated the first GOP presidential debate, is herself critiquing the CNBC moderators from Wednesday night’s debate, saying it was “uncomfortable to watch.”
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, plans to join 11 other countries under the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson proposed a debate structure change following the backlash against the CNBC debate moderators’ liberal-leaning questioning Wednesday night.
Many conservatives are criticizing the CNBC debate moderators for liberal bias; however, GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich is defending them.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s spokesperson Deana Bass told Breitbart News that fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump was right – CNBC planned to have a much longer debate until Trump and Carson negotiated it down to two hours, despite CNBC’s John Harwood arguing the debate was always going to be only two hours.
GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is expanding his campaign, particularly in Iowa, as many others in the GOP field are cutting back.
BOULDER, Colorado—GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum went after fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on the issue of increasing legal immigration, arguing that Graham’s position hurts the American worker.
Following Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) nomination by the Republican conference on Wednesday to be the next Speaker of the House, he told reporters that it is time to unify the Republican Party and that the “party has lost its vision.”
The House voted Wednesday evening to approve the bipartisan budget deal, 266 to 167.
The two-year budget deal announced late Monday includes small-print language that yanks $1.5 billion away from crime victims. The funding is used to compensate victims of crime.
BOULDER, Colorado—The RNC divided up workspaces for each of the GOP presidential campaign staffs during Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate hosted by CNBC in Colorado—but the workspace for each campaign wasn’t quite equal, according to one Republican political consultant.
The press secretary for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is dismissing evidence that Ryan’s staff contributed to the closed-door drafting of the Washington’s controversial new $8 trillion, two-year budget. It’s “liberal nonsense,” spokesman Brendan Buck told Breitbart News.
Heading into Wednesday’s GOP presidential primary debate, Dr. Ben Carson is throwing a heavyweight behind him – literally. UFC Champion Vitor Belfort endorsed the GOP presidential candidate on Tuesday after Carson visited Vitor and Joana Belfort’s gym and corporate facility.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson vows he won’t raise the debt ceiling if elected President of the United States, and says he’ll address the budget “immediately.”
Mike Huckabee is slamming the debt deal put forth by GOP leadership in Congress that takes $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund but doesn’t address the disability insurance program’s waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) says he cannot support the budget deal put forward by GOP leadership because of the White House’s intent to create a single payer “Obamacare of Crop Insurance.”
The secret, top-level process used to create the federal budget for 2016 and 2017 really “stinks,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is likely to replace Rep. John Boehner as House Speaker this week. But he did not promise to vote against the $8 trillion plan.
GOP 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina says Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton “flunks economics” if she believes the economy is better with a Democrat in the White House. “Whose economy is she talking about? The middle class has shrunk under the Obama administration,” Fiorina responded in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson moved up in Iowa to tie GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, but Trump remains the top pick among GOP voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to a new CBS News poll.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is calling on fellow presidential candidates to return “dark money” sent to Super PACs. According to a Trump campaign press release, the billionaire sent notices earlier this week “disavowing nine unauthorized Super PAC’s claiming to support him in his bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States and subsequently demanding the return of all funds raised.”
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs conducted a subcommittee hearing on Friday over whether or not Congress should reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank, which expired this summer, with many businesses encouraging Congress to vote to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank next week.
A GE Power and Water factory on the border between Rep. Paul Ryan’s district and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s district in Wisconsin is moving its manufacturing to Canada, costing hundreds of Americans in those districts their jobs.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is blaming a “young intern” for a retweet on his Twitter account that questioned the brain function of Iowa voters following a new Hawkeye state poll that showed Trump slipping to second place behind competitor Dr. Ben Carson.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) officially entered the race for Speaker of the House Thursday evening.
GOP presidential candidates are taking to social media to respond to Democrat frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi throughout the day Thursday, as Breitbart News reported in its live update blog.
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) is encouraging House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run Speaker of the House. Chairman of the RSC Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) says he is “confident” that Ryan “is the right person” for the job.
Ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – swept out by the Tea Party-backed Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) – is now on the attack against it and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, saying voters have an unrealistic expectation from a Republican majority in Congress and Trump is “absolutely not” a credible presidential nominee for the GOP.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) spokesperson, Brendan Buck, attempted to “clear a few things up” over backlash from conservatives about one of Ryan’s conditions for running for Speaker of the House.
The House Freedom Caucus met with House Way and Means Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in his office inside the Capitol, but no members were willing to tell dozens of reporters gathered outside the door whether or not Ryan will get an endorsement for Speaker of the House from its conservative members.
Conservative members of the House are pushing back against Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) demand to nullify the procedural rule put into place by Founding Father and President Thomas Jefferson, which was used by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and the House Freedom Caucus to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-OH).
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said the demands that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making before running for Speaker of the House are “unreasonable,” while Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) said one of his demands is a “non-starter.”
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to repeal a rule put in place by the third President of the United States and Founding Father – Thomas Jefferson – before he’d become Speaker of the House.
Tea Party Patriots released a new video titled “Choose Wisely” after Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced Tuesday that he will run for Speaker of the House – if the conference unites behind him.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says government employees should be fired if they don’t do their jobs.
GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is defending Donald Trump after backlash from the media and fellow GOP candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his comment about 9-11 happening under President George W. Bush.
“I think voting is important and that’s what you do as a senator and to say your going to fight [for] an issue, then it would probably be a good idea to be on the floor and make the argument,” Santorum said during a sit down interview Tuesday afternoon, without naming any names of fellow GOP presidential candidates who currently hold a senate seat.
A top supporter of Gov. Jeb Bush is saying the GOP’s 2016 frontrunner, Donald Trump, is “dead politically” and won’t be President of the United States, despite being at the top of the polls. Trump is “a false zombie front-runner. He’s dead politically, he’ll never be president of the United States, ever,” Mike Murphy said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics.
Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the favorites among GOP voters in the sunshine state, according to a Florida poll conducted by the University of North Florida (UNF), which found Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush not faring so well in their home state.
GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is defending his brother, former President George W. Bush, against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s reminder that 9-11 occurred under George W. Bush’s watch. But the International Business Times (IBT) reports the hijackers on 9-11 actually obtained Florida drivers licenses – or I.D. cards – while Jeb Bush was governor, which allowed them to disappear into society.
