On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects Trump’s tariffs will raise inflation and lower growth. Powell suggested that the central bank won't move on interest rates. “We [...]
From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. This week, Donald Trump unilaterally enacted a sweeping array of policies to [...]
Former federal prosecutors are up in arms over the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin, who is currently serving as interim U.S. attorney [...]
Two thoughts on today’s tariffs. I could get into the substance of the decision. But I think that goes without saying. Point one is that we should remember that Presidents [...]
Donald Trump is giving whitewashing a bad name. His executive order of last Thursday directed Vice President Vance, who’s a member of the Smithsonian’s board, and budget director Russell Vought [...]
When Republicans like the squatter currently occupying the White House try to cut popular public support and civil rights programs, they do so in cowardly fashion, like a bully who [...]
The second Trump era is something of an exercise in natural consequences. What happens if you put the most flamboyantly stupid goons in charge of everything? The results will neither [...]
The American people have had enough of Donald Trump and his unaffordable, dangerous agenda. As inflation persists and Americans overwhelmingly expect Trump’s reckless agenda to raise prices even higher, it’s [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Today, DCCC Communications Director Courtney Rice sent the following statement in response to the White House pulling Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the [...]
Along with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who "inadvertently" added a journalist to a Signal group [...]
Josh Parsons, loser, left, and James Malone, winner (campaign photos)Wowzers, Democrats flipped a deep red seat in a special election for the Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday night, with East [...]
The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat about planning airstrikes in Yemen.This is [...]
If there is one lesson that centrist Democrats have taken from Donald Trump’s startlingly broad-based victory in November, it is that their party will never return to majority status unless [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Now PlayingTrump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires06:14UP NEXT'Chuck Schumer's gotta [...]
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the elimination of the Department of Education Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]
President Donald Trump recently invoked a centuries-old law to justify the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. But one [...]
House Republicans can have $6,600 for supporting Elon Musk’s drive to impeach judges who place checks on President Trump’s lawless executive actions, as a treat. Musk has been championing talk [...]
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, home of fact-bending and scorn directed at liberals, has been doing some soul-searching lately. The Tuesday page had four pieces that could have run [...]
Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were [...]
This majority-deciding victory builds on the DLCC’s streak of overperformance in special elections in 2025 WASHINGTON— Last night, DLCC Spotlight Candidate and Rep.-elect David Gottfried joined MSNBC’s The Last Word [...]
Americans’ 401(k)s are plummeting, unemployment is rising, and consumer sentiment is tumbling – all while Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is desperately trying to downplay dire economic numbers by claiming he’s [...]
President Elmo had spent millions and millions of dollars to buy a presidency for his special pal, Felonia. He thought, literally, that he was king of the world. But now, [...]
The Senate voted on Friday afternoon to move forward with a Republican short-term funding bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. Ten Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. “Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That [...]
Several top corporate CEOs recently confided that despite their public shows of fealty to President Donald Trump, they are less than flattering of him behind closed doors.According to the Wall [...]
The House passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) continuing resolution 217-213, getting one step closer to avoiding a shutdown just days before the government is set to run out of funding. The [...]
In past few days, Trump has reversed himself on tariffs twice, warned Putin to lighten up on Ukraine, and reined in Elon Musk. This is in addition to countless lesser [...]
SHOT: Donald Trump spent his campaign lying to the American people about a new “golden age” and promising to “rapidly defeat” inflation on Day One… NBC: “President Donald Trump declared [...]
Donald Trump’s victory has prompted significant soul-searching among Democrats about the future of the party’s economic policy. The right and healthy response at a moment like this is humility, evidence-based [...]
Trump tells the press it's easier for him to deal with Russia to strike a peace deal as bombs rain down on Ukraine. Demented Don still says he trusts Putin [...]
President Donald Trump made the surprising announcement Thursday that his Cabinet secretaries do in fact run the government agencies they head — and that Elon Musk doesn’t. And though the [...]
Private companies hope to make a fortune off the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. Last Thursday, a day after the Trump administration announced plans for a massive new immigrant detention [...]
Joe Raedle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “DEI is dead.” At least that’s what the headlines scream. I [...]
The fact that President Donald Trump moved with lightning speed in signing dozens of executive orders and naming members of his Cabinet was no surprise to one House Republican, who [...]
Elon Musk (X, 2/26/25) gives his seal of approval to the new univocal Washington Post.“Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought [...]
The reaction on Fox to Trump and Vance's disastrous, dangerous, embarrassing shitshow with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has, as expected, been mainly glowing towards Trump and Vance, pretending Zelensky had [...]
This story appeared in the Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The [...]
The Trump administration is laying off thousands of employees at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just as tax season gets underway. These cuts will worsen customer service for millions of [...]
Shawn Thew/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, just before midnight, Donald Trump posted a grotesque AI-generated [...]
The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has managed the press pool since the 1950s. While the group has faced its share of criticism, journalists and others also weren't buying Leavitt's [...]
Police in Washington D.C. reportedly tried to arrest a Republican member of Congress for an alleged act of domestic violence, but U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is apparently not signing the [...]
The shock and awe from Washington continued this week, but it got a little less shocking and a little less awesome. Voters have started to notice that Donald Trump’s agenda isn’t [...]
NBC News (2/4/25) put Trump’s unconstitutional attack on USAID in a Cold War frame.Are the corporate media outlets reporting on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover smarter than a [...]
Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California and Raquel Delerme, University of Southern California President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could [...]
‘Think about this the next time you’re stuck in traffic.’ Video screenshot, NBC New York on YouTubeOn Wednesday, feeling a little full of himself, and possibly wanting to Own The [...]
The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The Logoff. Today I’m [...]
The Trump Administration’s move to cut overhead funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants will have a devastating effect on research universities and hospitals around the country. It’s a misguided [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Everybody 'is critical’ to travel: Reaction to Trump admin firing hundreds of FAA employees05:43Now PlayingBREAKING: Delta [...]
In a scathing column appearing in the conservative National Review, Andy McCarthy — a Fox News contributor who serves as one of the network's legal analysts — charges Trump AG [...]
The fog of war is a good analogy for what has transpired the past few days in the federal workforce. After getting a favorable ruling to move forward, the so-called [...]