Republican Party (United States)

==== Neoconservatives ====
{{main|Factions in the Republican Party (United States)#Neoconservatives}}
{{See also|Neoconservatism|Interventionism (politics)|United States involvement in regime change}}
Neoconservatives are a small faction of the GOP that support an [[Interventionism (politics)|interventionist foreign policy]] and increased military spending. They previously held significant influence in the early 2000s in planning the initial response to the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks]] through the [[War on Terror]].<ref name="Rathburn 2008" /> Since the election of Trump in 2016, neoconservatism has declined and [[non-interventionism]] and [[isolationism]] has grown among elected federal Republican officeholders.<ref name="New Fusionism" /><ref name="Rucker 2016">{{cite news |last1=Rucker |first1=Philip |author1-link=Philip Rucker |last2=Costa |first2=Robert |author2-link=Robert Costa (journalist) |date=March 21, 2016 |title=Trump questions need for NATO, outlines noninterventionist foreign policy |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-reveals-foreign-policy-team-in-meeting-with-the-washington-post/}}</ref><ref name="Dodson-Brooks 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Dodson |first1=Kyle |last2=Brooks |first2=Clem |title=All by Himself? Trump, Isolationism, and the American Electorate |journal=The Sociological Quarterly |date=20 September 2021 |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=780–803 |doi=10.1080/00380253.2021.1966348 |s2cid=240577549 |issn=0038-0253|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Republican members of the 118th Congress with neoconservative stances include Senators [[Tom Cotton]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/11/5/7154855/tom-cotton-rand-paul|title=Meet Tom Cotton: Arkansas's next Senator and Rand Paul's worst nightmare|first=Zack|last=Beauchamp|date=November 5, 2014|website=Vox}}</ref> and [[Lindsey Graham]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lindsey-graham-senate-trump-928948/|title=How Lindsey Graham Lost His Way|first1=Mark|last1=Binelli|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=January 6, 2020}}</ref>