My colleague Massimo Calabresi has written that anti-tax guru Grover Norquist’s pledge will survive, primarily because “it’s a winning issue with voters.” Indeed, the simplicity of the pledge is its ...

Grover Norquist, the man behind the pledge not to vote for a tax increase, paid a visit to Soledad O’Brien on CNN’s Starting Point on Monday to react to the recent flurry of GOP lawmakers who have ...

With the “fiscal cliff” looming and the lame duck 112th Congress preparing to head off disaster before it strikes, Washington’s focus is on the details of a deal that would provide the government a ...

Grover Norquist, the influential conservative activist who is the president of Americans for Tax Reform, will endorse Richard Mourdock over Dick Lugar before next week's Republican Senate primary in ...

Republican members of Congress are abandoning their pledge to never raise taxes, but Grover Norquist says he isn’t worried. The handful of Hill Republicans who have gone wobbly were never reliable and ...

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a group led by conservative activist Grover Norquist that asks politicians to pledge never to raise taxes, is pushing back on criticism that a promise like that thwarts ...

— -- Former President George H.W. Bush, who famously said " Read my lips: no new taxes" at the 1988 Republican National Convention before going on to raise taxes during his presidency, does not ...

Republicans are considering a tax hike on the wealthy, and Grover Norquist is beside himself. “It’s an incredibly destructive idea economically, and very foolish politically,” the longtime anti-tax ...

In the “one, big, beautiful bill,” President Donald Trump has called for substantial decreases in federal domestic spending. However, a schism emerged between Republican lawmakers during the budget ...