Ronald Reagan once quipped that “nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
He could have been talking about the effort to extend — for a second time — former President Joe Biden’s Affordable Care Act-enhanced tax credits, a set of extremely generous federal health insurance subsidies intended to help Americans get through the COVID-19 crisis.
That crisis ended two years ago. Biden’s extra help, enacted by a Democratic-majority Congress in 2021 and ex...
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ACA tax credits at center of shutdown fight
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Washington divide grows after Kirk assassination
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We need more budget bipartisanship, not less
The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, was recently quoted saying that “the appropriations process has to be less bipartisan.”
While it’s easy to think this would lead to less of the frustrating gridlock that can overtake the budgetary process, Vought is both procedurally and substantively wrong: The answer is more bipartisanship.
If this sounds naïve, consider the alternative.
The first and most obvious issue is realism. Thanks ...
A blue wave in the 2026 elections? It’s not likely, and here’s why.
Democratic strategists have been counting the days to the 2026 midterms ever since Nov. 5, 2024. Republicans, meanwhile, have kept their foot on the gas since reclaiming full control of Washington this January, well aware that political winds rarely blow a political party's way after two years of unified governance.
But Democrats are bound to be disappointed at the 2026 midterm results, finding that the wave elections of old resemble little more than faint white caps off a qui...
Six months in, Trump’s numbers are stronger than in his first term
Six months into his second term, President Trump and Republicans are in better shape than eight years ago.
Unquestionably, President Trump remains a divisive political figure. However, he has expanded his base and continues to hold it. In contrast, Democrats have been unable to capitalize on Trump’s political vulnerabilities and have lost ground compared to 2017.
With the House’s passage of his rescission package, Trump scored another major win. He ...
The race is on to define Trump agenda bill
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Virginia Democrat: Trump bill will be ‘political albatross’ for Republicans
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Sunday that President Trump’s megabill will be a “political albatross” for Republicans back at home.
In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan noted that the GOP tax and spending bill, which just cleared a key hurdle in the Senate on Saturday night, includes some policies that Democrats have championed.
“You can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want. This will be a political albatross for the...
Trump says supreme court limiting judges’ powers is ‘monumental victory’ as liberal justices dissent – live
Sonia Sotomayor says decision is an ‘open invitation … to bypass the constitution’; joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson
US supreme court limits judges’ power on nationwide injunctions
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The Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning, Reuters reports.
US and China are locked in a technological arms race and with it secure an economic and military edge. The huge amount of data processing behind AI requires a rapid increase in power supplies that are straining utilities and grids in many states.
The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, Palestine, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.
With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled…
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Republican Lisa Murkowski on Trump’s America and the ‘intensity on the security of our democracy’
The Alaska senator, who helped deal Trump’s first big legislative setback, believes there can be only so much fear that Americans can handle
Late one night about six months into Donald Trump’s first term, John McCain stepped on to the Senate floor and with a dramatic thumbs-down gesture dealt the president his first major legislative setback by defeating an attempt by his fellow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
It was the last major political effort of the Arizona...