Politics

The Moral Cost of the Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy

The longest-ever government shutdown has ended with a negotiated whimper rather than a glorious Resistance victory, and many Democrats are furious at their leaders. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecti...

Credit:

Republicans need Trump for the debate on Obamacare credits

President Donald Trump didn’t get involved in negotiations to end the government shutdown. But he plans to get his hands dirty as his party confronts expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, accordi...

Credit:

The man who talked to the president every day for decades

The White House is an iconic symbol of the most powerful country in the world.It is also a place where people live.Gary Walters, the White House’s longest-serving chief usher, was a fly on the wall...

Credit:

Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say

Republicans are putting their own spin on subsidizing Americans’ health care: Route money away from insurers and put cash directly in consumers’ hands to give them more choice over their coverage.E...

Credit:

The flip side of America's price crunch: Paltry paychecks

The drubbing that Republicans took at the ballot box last week highlighted President Donald Trump’s weakness on the issue of affordability. But if voters are frustrated over high prices, the GOP’s ...

Credit:

This Comedian Just Showed Democrats How to Solve Their Messaging Problems

“There’s something about the term ‘sex worker’ that just feels belabored,” Gianmarco Soresi tells me. “It’s longer than hooker or prostitute.”Perhaps unsurprisingly, this subject never came up whil...

Credit:

Trump nearly won Latino voters last year. Democrats just won many of them back.

Latino voters, who swung toward President Donald Trump in 2024, boomeranged back to Democrats last week, signaling the fraying of his coalition less than one year into his second term.Few places ac...

Credit:

Growing pains: How NYC’s left plans to take on city government under Mamdani

NEW YORK — New York City’s democratic socialists — adept organizers and fluent in the politics of protest — must now add an unfamiliar label to their repertoire: Bureaucrat.In the wake of mayor-ele...

Credit:

How Senate Republicans won the last vote to end the shutdown

Tim Kaine privately laid out weeks ago what he needed in return for his vote to end the government shutdown: a “moratorium on mischief.”That’s what the Virginia Democrat told Senate Majority Leader...

Credit:

Democrats want to extend Obamacare credits. Republicans have other ideas.

Senate Democrats are projecting optimism they’ll be able to strike a bipartisan deal to extend Obamacare subsidies in the coming weeks. But Senate Republicans have their own plans.Republicans appea...

Credit:

‘A Perfect Martyr’: The Budding Alliance Between MAHA and Elizabeth Holmes

The Make America Healthy Again movement may have found its next cause: justice for Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes.On Oct. 31, mommy-blogger-turned-MAHA-influencer Jessica...

Credit:

MORNING GLORY: Senator Chuck Schumer’s epic face plant

The "Schumer Shutdown" is effectively over, just in time for the celebrations attending the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps and Veterans Day. There are some votes still to be ta...

Credit:

Trump has promised peace for Gaza. Private documents paint a grim picture.

Some Trump administration officials are deeply concerned that the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas could break down because of the difficulty implementing many of its core provisions, as pr...

Credit:

Trump’s affordability push is speaking louder than his words

President Donald Trump insists Republicans have already won the affordability battle. His actions tell another story.In the wake of last week’s bruising off-year elections that underscored just how...

Credit:

Air Force families at Florida base told to take Christmas decorations down

(NewsNation) — Troops and their families who live on the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida were told to take their Christmas decorations down at their homes. A photo posted in an A...

Credit:

‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage

White House officials are furious with Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who talked the president into suggesting a 50-year mortgage plan.The White House was blindsided by th...

Credit:

USDA official who roiled Capitol Hill with his erotica now one of Rollins’ closest advisers

The USDA staffer whose smutty novella sparked controversy in September — and inside President Donald Trump’s White House, where top aides considered his termination — remains at the department.In f...

Credit:

Pro-DeSantis candidate James Fishback launching bid for Florida governor

James Fishback, an investor and Gov. Ron DeSantis-aligned conservative, will announce a campaign for Florida governor in the coming days, setting up a direct clash with President Donald Trump’s cho...

Credit:

House to return to laundry list of controversies after 7-week hiatus

The House is set to return to work Wednesday after a staggering 54 days out of session. Ending the record government shutdown will be the least of Speaker Mike Johnson’s problems.Tensions have been...

Credit:

Trump’s sweeping 2020 election pardon raises alarms ahead of the midterms

President Donald Trump’s adversaries say his sweeping pardon for dozens of alleged co-conspirators in the plot to subvert the 2020 election sent an unmistakable signal: If you do it again, I’ll pro...

Credit:

John Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure

Senate Republicans secured a provision in the bipartisan, shutdown-ending government funding package that could award senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collec...

Credit: