New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy Both Medicaid and SNAP would suffer hundreds of billions in cuts, according to the analysis The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025
Chuck Schumer believed Republicans would dump ‘turd’ Trump after 2020 and return to Bush’s party, book claims Senator has cancelled his own book tour following blowback for his decision to vote against a government shutdown The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025
Trump backs higher pay for wildland firefighters while DOGE cuts wildfire support staff Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025
North Carolina lawmakers approve additional $528M for Hurricane Helene recovery North Carolina lawmakers have agreed to spend another $528 million on still-pressing needs from Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding nearly six months ago The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025
Nancy Mace Blames 'Paid Agitators' As Reason Why She Refuses to Attend Town Hall With Constituents: 'It's Not Safe' Nancy Mace refused an invitation to attend a town hall meeting in her home state, blaming "paid" protestors she claims have disrupted GOP-led town halls. Latin Times · Mar 19, 2025
Chuck Schumer clung to belief Republicans would ‘expel’ Trump, book says Even as 2024 election loomed, reporters say, Democratic Senate leader was sure GOP would ‘expel the turd of Trump’ The Guardian - US · Mar 19, 2025
Republicans are already getting in line behind Vance for 2028: ‘I think it’s inevitable’ Vance won straw poll of potential 2028 GOP nominees at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025
These House members are running or weighing bids for Senate or governor - Roll Call More than two dozen House members are contemplating runs for Senate or governor, which could complicate the fight for the majority. Roll Call · Mar 18, 2025
Republicans’ fragile majority and Democrats’ fragile image - Roll Call ANALYSIS -- Republicans shouldn't take their House majority for granted, and Democrats' image problem doesn't necessarily spell 2026 doom. Roll Call · Mar 18, 2025
The View’s Sunny Hostin corners Chuck Schumer for siding with GOP: ‘I think you caved’ ‘It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends but I think you caved,’ Sunny Hostin told the Senate minority leader on Tuesday The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025
The View hosts butt heads on Chuck Schumer caving to GOP on spending bill: ‘That is unacceptable!’ ‘So when Chuck gets here tomorrow, we can all say to him: ‘Hey, what the hell?!’ Whoopi Goldberg added on Monday, revealing that Chuck Schumer would be joining the show on Tuesday The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2025
Trump again implies he is a King in sharing latest AI-generated meme President previously called himself a ‘King’ and quoted French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte last month The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2025
Fox News host swipes at GOP for railing against judge over deportation order after praising him in the past ‘So you can’t pick and choose what day you like a judge and what day you don’t!’ Trey Gowdy declared on Monday The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2025
In Texas, Christian right grows confident and assertive Emboldened by court rulings and election victories, the Christian right is outspoken as it pushes its moral views through the Texas Legislature. The Texas Tribune · Mar 17, 2025
Roll Call · Mar 16, 2025 Former Rep. Nita Lowey, first woman to lead House Appropriations, dies - Roll Call Nita M. Lowey, a veteran legislator from New York who served 16 terms until her retirement after the 116th Congress, died on Saturday.
Creative Bloq · Mar 16, 2025 People are mocking the Democrat's new logo, but a rebrand was needed Has the donkey been downgraded?
The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2025 How Trump’s ‘America First’ MAGA movement turned the Republican Party into an ‘arm of the Kremlin’ IN FOCUS: President Trump’s recent attack on Volodymyr Zelensky sees GOP accused of parroting Vladimir Putin’s talking points, Joe Sommerlad reports
The Guardian - US · Mar 15, 2025 Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order
The Conversation · Mar 14, 2025 Why was it hard for the GOP – which controls Congress – to pass its spending bill? Facing a threat of imminent government shutdown, nine Democrats joined GOP Senate colleagues to defeat a filibuster, moving the six-month government funding bill to final passage in a late-day vote on March 14, 2025.
Roll Call · Mar 14, 2025 Simpson remembered as a giant of the Senate, literally - Roll Call The colorful former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson died Friday at age 93 while recovering from a broken hip he sustained in December.
The Guardian - US · Mar 14, 2025 Trump signs Republican spending bill to avert government shutdown Bill passed Senate 54-46 but furious progressives accuse yes-vote senators of acquiescing to Trump
Salon · Mar 14, 2025 Dems to Schumer: Fight back or get lost "He is off course and capitulating to fascism — and we won’t stand for it," one protester told Salon
Latin Times · Mar 14, 2025 Trump Campaign Manager Insists Musk Won't Cut Social Security: 'He's Not The President' Former Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita denied the claims that Musk's DOGE would cut Social Security as tensions between him and Cabinet members surface.
Salon · Mar 14, 2025 Why a centrist Dem sided with the GOP Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, told Salon that he thinks "a shutdown will make things worse, not better"
Latin Times · Mar 14, 2025 Chuck Schumer's Last-Minute Call to Back Republican Spending Bill Sparks Fury of Fellow Democrats: 'We Will Not Be Complicit' House Democrats are raging against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would support the GOP's bill to avert a shutdown despite the party's opposition in the lower chamber