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Senate Democrats appear poised to vote for a spending bill they hate to avoid a worse fate: Allowing a government shutdown that could enable President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to make deeper cuts...
A second federal judge has ordered the mass reinstatement of fired federal workers, reversing the Trump administration’s terminations of probationary employees at 18 major agencies.The agencies cov...
The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.The Senate minority leader on Thursday backed away from the shutdown confrontation that many liberal voters and activist leade...
He denounced the European Union as “hostile” and “abusive” while threatening to ratchet up tariffs on some of its most famous goods by 200 percent. He openly mused about annexing Greenland while si...
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President Donald Trump will speak at the Justice Department on Friday, amid ongoing concerns that he has compromised the agency’s traditional arms-length relationship with the White House.While not...
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to eliminate a key tool that lower courts have used to block various aspects of his agenda.In an emergency appeal Thursday, Trump asked the justic...
A Transportation Department employee who studied how to prevent highway deaths lost their job. So did one who focused on preventing pipelines from leaking and exploding. And so did people at an age...
In a moment of extraordinary political division, there is consensus on one subject at least: Senate Democrats are screwed. They are, to be fair, in an unenviable position. Earlier this week, House ...
The cryptocurrency industry, once beleaguered by scandals and skepticism in Washington, is now within striking distance of the biggest policy win in its history.The Senate Banking Committee on Thur...
Over half of voters believe Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are hurting the country, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds.Fifty-four percent of voters believe DOGE, which th...
Oval Office for the week. Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. President Donald Trump isn’t keen to jet-set in his second term.Trump has taken far fewer domestic trips in the early weeks of his second admin...
Months of tariff-fueled tensions with the U.S. have left Canada feeling defiant.“We're not like some small country that you can push around,” François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of innov...
Ambitious Illinois Democrats are dreaming about Sen. Dick Durbin’s exit in 2026. The latest contender: the state’s lieutenant governor.Juliana Stratton, who first took office in 2019, is quietly po...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the fe...
Last year, I was a student at Columbia University, where I covered tense campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war for the college newspaper and for POLITICO. So I’m familiar with Mahmoud Khalil, a...
The Trump administration’s plans to detain migrants in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, hit another roadblock this week after all 40 such individuals held there were sent back to the United Stat...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe ongoing stalemate over extending a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has 2 million people still trapped in the rubb...
MIAMI — Donald Trump’s repeated promises to aggressively crack down on immigration have ensnared Republicans in his home state, who say the administration has made a dire mistake that could harm So...
The red-white-and-blue world of Christian nationalism is a fascinating place, but it can also get claustrophobic. After a dozen years of reporting on the subject, I began to feel restless and perha...
In late February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio quietly met with Elon Musk to discuss the future of the State Department and what was left of the U.S. Agency for International Development.The prev...