Veronika Bondarenko
Then there's the question of where precisely the cuts would come from. Of the 2.25 million civilian workers, 60% of them workfor the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security — which Republicans have been loath to slash. Cutting from other departments wouldn't be easy fo...
Just months into his second term, the president said his threats of import taxes would cause “a little pain” while paying the way for American factory jobs. Now even Trump’s base is slightly more pessimistic: Sentiment fell 3.2% among Republicans in the University of Michigan’s consumer ...
Republicans could learn a thing or two from the conclave. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton May 9, 2025 Lunch Break: No Pressure, ‘Scott B’ The friendly interview touched on Joe Biden’s debate performance, Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump and whether the former president’s wife, Jill B...
So now that voters have gotten to know a bit more about Harris and what she plans to do if elected president, how are they feeling about the nominee and her platform? See if you can guess what recent polls have found about Harris and her policy positionsin our quiz....
Grogan: She says Harris is limited in what she can do to protect abortion without support in Congress. Same goes for IVF. Grogan says that Trump doesn’t have support from some Republicans in Congress to have insurance or the government pay for IVF. As for Trump’s stance on abortion, ...
like lower tax rates and the Qualified Business Income Deduction. They warn that its 2026 expiration would raise taxes, shrink paychecks, and revive the Alternative Minimum Tax, hitting the economy hard before midterms. The SALT deduction cap stirs debate, with high-tax state Republicans p...
In the past, conservatives have never voted to raise the debt ceiling. It's always been all Democrats and the big government Republicans, and we know who they are. And we've always derided them. And it was a day of shame. The day of shame, you walked down to the well of the Senat...
In some ways, Biden has had the worst of both worlds: The 2020 elections that gave Democrats control over both houses of Congress raised expectations that Biden’s proposals would be enacted, but senate Republicans torpedoed almost all of them (apart from benefits to tide people over during th...
Trump won’t be on the 2026 ballot, of course, and we are just a month into his new term. But if concerns like those Jenkins has about immigration, Musk and presidential power continue to grow, battleground Republicans such as freshman GOP Rep. Gabe Evans here could find a more difficult...