FILE – U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill. Meadows says the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus will be more focused on policy in 2017 than hard-line ...

As the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, Meadows rallied House Republicans and the president to make a stand on wall funding and risk the shutdown, rather than pushing the issue into ...

It’s a scene jarringly familiar to many Republicans on Capitol Hill: a high-stakes piece of legislation, a tense standoff between GOP leaders and conservative hard-liners — and Mark Meadows in the ...

The threat of a partial government shutdown is looking more and more like a reality now that President Donald Trump opened up his big wet mouth and got involved in what was essentially a done deal ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is trying to gin up House support for his alternative timeline for repealing and replacing ObamaCare. Paul on Thursday huddled with the House Freedom Caucus to discuss his push ...

Mark Meadows wanted money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall so badly he defied Senate Republicans, his own House Republican leadership and even President Donald Trump. And as the government began a ...