Intelligencer writer Ed Kilgore says just being unpopular isn’t the thing that’s blowing up President Donald Trump’s approval and setting up Republicans for a mass ejection from the House and maybe the Senate in November. Trump made some very big boasts on his way to the 2024 election about how much…
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy — a Donald Trump appointee in Rhode Island — referred U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys to a court disciplinary committee. Politico’s Josh Gerstein, reporting on X, noted that the ruling was “over handling of fight over trans medical care subpo…
CNN host Dana Bash on Friday mocked members of the MAGA movement who appear to assume California is taking a long time to count votes because political hijinks are afoot. Fox News host Jesse Waters explained, “I can’t prove it — but everybody watching thinks there’s shenanigans when it takes this lo…
President Donald Trump is desperate to maintain his hold on the Republican-dominated House, so he’s personally fighting for plenty of embattled seats. But some seats are going to be a much harder sell for him and his Republican Party.”The Republicans are just in absolutely huge trouble in Wisconsin….
President Donald Trump said he would fund his lavish 90,000-square-foot ballroom with donations from corporations and individuals, and now they’re getting their return on investment. The New Republic’s Finn Hartnett cited a recent report from the nonprofit government watchdog group, Public Citizen,…
As NewsNation contributor Lindsey Granger pointed out on Friday, the previous week had two trends butting up against one another: the final hour for the GOP to advance key agenda priorities, and the fight over some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial actions yet. And as Granger concludes,…
Republicans in Congress have gotten plaudits for their recent opposition to President Donald Trump’s DOJ “slush fund,” which may be temporarily stalled now, but according to a new breakdown from MS NOW, the achievement reveals something more damning about the “feckless party.”Last month, the Justice…
Longtime financial pundit Jim Cramer is worried. While President Donald Trump and his allies applaud Friday’s positive jobs report, Cramer thinks they’re not paying enough attention to the economic needs of “struggling Americans.”While the news that job numbers have increased by 172,000 is theoretic…
During their years in the White House, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush sometimes drew criticism from supporters for being overly deferential to their policy advisors — Obama with Wall Street insiders on economic policy, Bush with hawkish neoconservatives on foreign policy. But Pres…
President Donald Trump knows that his nominee for director of national intelligence can’t be confirmed by the Senate. An exclusive Wall Street Journal report revealed that Bill Pulte, who Trump nominated this week, has a reputation of “moves fast and breaks things,” as one CNN reporter said on Tuesd…