Democrats in Congress today were energized by President Obama's deficit reduction plan, which in part calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, and called on Congress to get to work on Mr. Obama's proposals right away. Mr. Obama todayput forward a plan to reduce the deficit by about $3 tr...
Gov. Greg Abbott pushes Congress for $11.1 billion reimbursement to secure Texas border For the second consecutive week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott returned to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to advocate for federal reimbursement of the state's border security efforts under Operation Lone Star. ...
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Because, as Congresswoman Crockett put it, they aren’t just “in your face” about Trump and Musk – they’re also fighting the 77.3 million Americans who rejected what the Democrats were selling. Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA TODAY. Contact her at ijacques@usa...
The policies and demographic bases of the Democratic and Republican parties were very different in the decades after the Civil War than they are today—the Democratic contingent in Congress was divided between the southerners (later known as "Dixiecrats") who tended to be conservatives, particularly...
It’s likely to be an indication of how well Democrats will do in next year’s elections. But it’s also likely to be an indication of how American politics today work more broadly. Is America locked in an intractable partisan uncivil war, where Team Blue represents a slight but...
And after Harris visited North Carolina — a top target for Democrats — earlier this month, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton, the youngest state party chair in the country, wrote on X:“We all fell out of the coconut tree today into a gym full of Democrats...
Bush Approval at 37%; Democrats in Congress Rated Higher Than GOP: New poll finds slight increase in the president's job approval rating. The article discusses the result of the USA Today/Gallup poll concerning the approval rating of President George W. Bush in the U.S. About 37% of the...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer offered an early indication of what the Democratic Party would pursue in Congress if Vice President Kamala Harris can help usher in another trifecta in Washington. The Democrats' joyful convention in Chicago has been mostly devoid of policy details for a 2025 ag...