WASHINGTON—More than 100 national leaders urged Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday to use every means at their disposal to confirm more than 200 presidential nominations currently pending in the U.S. Senate, both for the executive branch and for the federal courts.
Conservative activist groups such as the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks lauded the tax blueprint released by Republicans on Wednesday.
Conservatives groups launched a multimillion-dollar campaign on Monday to push the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, helping break the gridlock in the Senate so the White House can fill more than 100 vacancies on the federal bench.
The Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and the Tea Party Patriots launched the website “Obamacare Opt-Out,” urging Americans to tell their senators to include the Cruz-Lee “consumer choice” amendment in the Senate healthcare bill.
Paul Ryan lauded a coalition letter that supports the Republican leadership’s Obamacare-lite plan, however, many prominent conservative groups remain opposed to RyanCare.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) praised the decision announced Saturday by President-elect Donald J. Trump to choose Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R.-S.C.), who worked closely with the speaker to expand immigration and guest worker programs, to lead Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.
Another example of unrest between the Republican leadership and its members came from The Hill on Monday, as it reported the forty members of the House Freedom Caucus may separate from the Republican Study Committee when the next Congress convenes.
“Mike Pence would be an outstanding Vice-President,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement after Trump tweeted that he has selected the Republican governor from Indiana as his running mate. Until now, the Club has been one of the real estate billionaire’s fiercest critics.
GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers and Rep. George Holding are facing a winner-take-all June 7 primary for the GOP nomination in North Carolina’s 2nd congressional District — and conservatives are rallying to defeat Ellmers.
Governor Mike Pence earned national praise today for appointing conservative stalwart Geoffrey Slaughter to the Indiana Supreme Court.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is facing attack ads ahead of the May 3 primary in Indiana.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich responded to the Club for Growth’s television ad airing in Indiana ahead of the May 3 primary during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation.
The conservative group Club for Growth has booked $1.5 million in advertising in the upcoming Indiana primary. The ad explicitly urges voters to support Sen. Ted Cruz as a means of blocking Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination.
“The reason why Obamatrade became law is because of Ted Cruz,” said Donald Trump’s senior policy advisor Stephen Miller on Monday’s program of Breitbart News Daily. Miller — who had been working for Sen. Jeff Sessions at the time that
The Club for Growth, which has long opposed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and recently endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), is planning to run an anti-Trump television ad in Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on April 5.
The Club for Growth PAC joined the drip drip of establishment figures lining up behind presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, as he remains the closest alternative to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
The Club for Growth, which was described by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as “a pack of thieves,” released a new anti-Trump TV-ad that began running in Utah today.
Liberals will target Senator Rob Portman, Republican from Ohio, and pressure him to confirm President Obama’s forthcoming Supreme Court nomination. But prominent conservatives are rallying to defend Portman and the Court.
WASHINGTON—In a development that’s likely to cause fits for President Barack Obama, the Senate Democrats’ next leader, Charles Schumer, told an 2007 audience — on video — that he wanted to block any Supreme Court nominations during the last 18 months of President George W. Bush’s presidency.
The Club for Growth is endorsing a Republican primary challenger to Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s Second District. Its choice is Jim Duncan, a retired businessman.
Billionaire businessman and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump tells Breitbart News Daily that he has created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.
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 frontrunner Donald Trump sent the Club for Growth a “cease and desist letter” alleging the organization published false and defamatory information about him through its advertisements that say Trump supports the “highest tax increase in history.”
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee went after the conservative organization Club for Growth, saying the organization is not credible as it has criticized conservative records while supporting Democrat Alan Grayson.
Donald Trump is currently involved in a vicious argument with the Club for Growth over tax policy. The Club for Growth is running ads against Trump in Iowa accusing him of several offenses against growth-oriented conservatism, including a proposal to raise taxes. They added a bare-knuckle punch proclaiming Trump to be more liberal than Hillary Clinton, or even Bernie Sanders, and called him “the worst kind of politician.”
The president of the anti-tax Club for Growth group, David McIntosh, is declaring political war on Donald Trump with a $1 million ad buy in Iowa targeting the billionaire candidate.
“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News about the Club for Growth as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.
The Club for Growth PAC is charging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump wants more federal control over businesses in the United States.
That would be Charlie Crist, the former Florida Governor who used to be a Republican, then bailed on the party to run as an independent after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) surged to a double-digit lead in the 2010 Senate primary. Crist’s name has become a shorthand insult whenever someone wishes to challenge a candidate’s conservative credentials, and when Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) jumped into the Florida Senate race on Monday, the Club for Growth had thrown the Crist name at him within a few hours.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is demanding that Club for Growth president David McIntosh resign his position: Before McIntosh criticized Trump’s candidacy for the White House, he begged Trump for a million dollars.
“Congressional Democrats, like Patrick Murphy, are in virtual lockstep in their support for the big corporate special interests that gain taxpayer-provided financing from the Export-Import Bank,” said Club for Growth President David McIntosh in a statement provided to Breitbart News. “Despite the hundreds of fraud claims against Ex-Im, and the 31 open fraud investigations involving the bank, Murphy still wants an expansion of Ex-Im.”
The U.S. Senate’s most outspoken contrarian, Ted Cruz, became the first official 2016 candidate to launch a bid for the White House Monday. Despite the fact that he’s highly controversial within his own party, it has long been known that
In a potential battle of the PACs, the Club for Growth PAC has a message for House Republicans who might be targeted by the American Action Network: “if the Speaker of the House attacks you for standing up for economic freedom and limited government, the Club for Growth PAC will have your back.”
