Conservatives on Capitol Hill are in store for painful calculations over more spending to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies, a contentious subject that GOP leaders begrudgingly concede they’ll ultimately need to address to pass long-term government funding. It’s a tough pill to swallow for fiscal hawks, who described it to the Washington Examiner as hypocritical of […]

Some GOP Capitol Hill staffers remain wary of House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) decision to keep the lower chamber in recess for a third week despite the government shutdown.  House Republican leadership has repeatedly pushed the notion that the “House did its job” in passing its short-term Republican-backed deal to fund the government through Nov. […]

Military personnel are set to miss their first paycheck as the government shutdown continues, raising concerns among House Republicans that it could hurt mission readiness with no solution in sight. Veteran lawmakers have begun sending warning signals about the military’s ability to perform if servicemembers are spending time worrying about not receiving a paycheck come […]

A corporation with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a history of industrial espionage produces hardware used for sensitive medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Washington Examiner review has found. United Imaging is a multinational medical technology company based in Shanghai that has conducted research alongside the Chinese military […]