House Speaker Mike Johnson's prediction for a GOP Senate majority is coming true as key seats flip red. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane explains what these results mean for Congress as we look ahead to January.
According to Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst for the right-leaning Tax Foundation, unless one party wins the White House, the House and a super majority in the Senate in 2024, Americans could see a return of the playbook for the extension of the Bush-era cuts. In short, not much c...
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...
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citizenship to register to vote. However, the Senate did not pass the act in 2024, so it is not law as of this writing. It still needs to pass several hurdles, including winning a three-fifths majority in the Senate — which would require Democratic support — before it can become law....
structure of government," said Tevi Troy, a senior fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute. "I don't think people are gonna look at the inflation Reduction Act, which everybody acknowledged was misnamed, the same way that we look at the Great Society legislat...
International Students Stripped of Legal Status in the US Are Piling up Wins in Court Some international students in the U.S. who have had their legal status terminated in recent weeks have found a measure of success in court, with federal judges around the country issuing ord...
Former labor secretary: ‘It’s hard to conceive how the wealthiest set of Cabinet nominees and White House appointments in history will understand what average working people are going through’ BYBill Barrow and The Associated Press January 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump...
If a poll comes out with a surprising finding, it can be helpful to check it against the averages to see where it fits in. 8. Polls are generally accurate — but not perfect. In 2022, polls conducted in the final three weeks before Election Day missed the final margin of Senate, ...
nonprofits, it brought in close to $3 billion in dark money in the 2022 cycle. The behemoth in the Arabella network, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, raised nearly $380 million in that same cycle. In 2020 it steered $410 million to help defeat Donald Trump and win back the Senate ...