7. AILING AMERICA:The level of homeless people in the U.S. leapt 12% this year to the highest number ever recorded, new HUD data out yesterday revealed,per WSJ’s Jon Kamp and Shannon Najmabadi. Among the reasons: Pandemic-era federal aid programs tapered off, housing stock remaine...
Those sentiments were echoed by a number of Midwestern Republican senators this week as they returned from the election recess. And they hint at what’s likely to be a major source of tension within the party during the next Trump administration — over just how far the president should go ...
leahy said. the spending bill also contains $3.8 billion to fund the annual operations of congress. it includes a provision to again deny lawmakers the annual cost-of-living pay raise that they are supposed to receive. salaries for members of congress have been frozen at $174,000...
While signs of a Republican edge in the 2010 election have emerged over the past few months, the reality of Michigan’s political geography will reduce the number of competitive seats in the state to no more than fifteen. Using electoral data from the past four cycles, I’ve created a Hous...
the last five presidents who had a second term. In Graph 7 below, the red bar is the number of motions filed. The blue bar is the number of cloture votes which alone suggests strong opposition to the filibuster. Finally, the green bar is the number of filibusters overridden, with 2013-...
although he was undoubtedly aided by that cycle's "blue-wave" electoral environment. This year, Trump leads Harris in Ohioby around 10 points, so while Brown likely won't need nearly as many split-ticket voters as Tester, he will still need a fair number of voters who back Trump to vot...
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign,told NBC Newsthat the former president’s list of potential vice presidential candidates has been “growing and getting longer” and said that Trump has been wowed by the number of “impressive prospects out there.” ...
Trump must start building a solid personal relationship with his counterpart and open a starter dialogue on a number of sensitive issues between the two nations, analysts add. “Well, it’s going to be very interesting, nobody really knows, we have not been treated fairly on trade, no presi...
Theextremely tightrunoff elections for Senate in Georgia could end up being the two most expensive Senate races in U.S. history, and money is already pouring in. Chris Zubak-Skees is an independent data journalist who previously worked at the Center for Public Integrity and the Sunlight Founda...
The rate of cases is also high in counties with state prisons such as Walker and Jones. In other rural areas where the presence of the virus has yet to be confirmed, testing has been scarce. On April 6, the state started reporting the number of patients with positive tests who are ...