In an op-ed for The Hill, BGR Group Advisory Board Member Heather Nauert urges Republicans to follow Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s guidance on continuing to provide assistance to Ukraine. READ FULL ARTICLE: On Ukraine aid, Republicans should follow the leader
By Jennifer Larkin Lukawski Principal, BGR Group jlarkin@bgrdc.com While Republicans didn’t experience the anticipated tsunami of victories in the 2022 election cycle, they did what seemed unthinkable just a few short years ago. For the second cycle in a row, they elected a record-breaking 42 Republican women to serve in Congress, including 33 in the […]
By Joseph Lai October 18, 2022 As we count down the days to the U.S. midterm elections, races to determine control of Congress are tightening across the country. That’s certainly the case in Nevada, where Republican Adam Laxalt is locked in a close race with incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. Nevada’s Senate race is […]
By Heather Nauert September 23, 2022 ZAR’IT, Israel — Under a hot September sun in northern Israel, we drove to a hilly rural village dotted by tidy homes surrounded by fragrant fruit trees and a secret tunnel connecting two countries long at odds with one another. I was a few hundred yards from the border […]
By Sean Duffy June 10, 2022 The price of food, gas, and goods continue to rise along with summer temperatures. With the annual inflation rate above 8 percent, the highest since the early 1980s, the heat is also increasing on President Biden and congressional Democrats to do something to fix the problem. Americans are right […]
THE SUN Based on what we know now, Congress should move to disapprove the deal and block the president from waiving any sanctions on Iran. In the next few days, expect an announcement that the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran has been brought back from the dead. Months of discussions between the Biden team, […]
What happened in the New Jersey gubernatorial race will have broad ramifications across the country and into 2022. By Jennifer Lukawski, BGR Principal November 3, 2021 While most of the attention today is on Glenn Youngkin’s come-from-behind victory over former Governor Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign, a nationalized race by any measure, the […]
By Ambassador Kurt Volker May 5, 2021 The U.S. and Ukraine, and the West more broadly, need to get serious about putting the cards on the table that would deter Putin from any further military action. Coming on the heels of Russia’s massive military build-up in and around Ukraine in April 2021, U.S. Secretary of […]
CNN OPINION March 18, 2021 Opinion by Charles A. Kupchan and Douglas Lute Charles A. Kupchan is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as special assistant to the President for national security affairs from 2014 to 2017 and is the author […]
By Governor Haley Barbour March 8, 2021 Last week America lost a “wise man,” to quote The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan. I expect many more national leaders and chroniclers agree with that view of Vernon Jordan. I first learned about Vernon Jordan and his distinguished career in 1980 when, as a civil rights leader, […]