Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to bring in the big gun last week -- President Trump -- to pressure House Republican holdouts into passing one of the largest tax cuts in US history.

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on Wednesday vowed to fight President Donald Trump's tariffs "tooth and nail" and criticized his policies as having started ...

On the other side, there is the Freedom Caucus, the Republican hard-liners from safe seats who will fight tooth and nail against any increase in spending without huge cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or ...

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to bring in the big gun last week — President Trump — to pressure House Republican holdouts into passing one of the largest tax cuts in US history.

The “tooth-and-nail fight,” as one source put it, came after the initial budget blueprint didn’t account for potentially costly expansions to Medicaid in states and failed to chip away at ...