The Republican Senate Chickens Out
With more than a dozen Republican senators publicly criticizing President Trump’s slush fund while Trump himself equivocated about whether he would kill it, the reconciliation bill was going to be [...]
Trump Trips Up Trump – The American Prospect
Trump racked up back-to-back wins in his successful campaigns to oust two non-MAGA Republican incumbents, Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and Rep. Tom Massie in Kentucky, both of whom lost [...]
House renews foreign spy program, creates pathway to end DHS shutdown…
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to renew a powerful foreign surveillance program and passed a Senate-approved measure that would jumpstart the process to fund ICE and Border Patrol [...]
Time to Stop Lionizing Powell
In the ongoing struggle over the independence of the Fed, Trump finally blinked first. His toady prosecutor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, abruptly announced this morning [...]
Constitutional Softball: Congress Gives Up Its Power of the Purse
The $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which has now passed the House and Senate, attempts to push Pete Hegseth to release the full “double-tap” video of the summary execution [...]
Government shutdown: What to know as the House prepares to vote
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 [...]
Trump Decides to Own the Shutdown
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been treated to a combination of first-term and second-term Trump. On Monday, the president agreed to a meeting with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Reverse Robin Hood Republicans
In the House, Republicans are working on what will probably be the only large piece of legislation of Donald Trump’s second term—and that’s if it passes at all. This week [...]
Pressuring Republican Reps to Pressure Trump
I’ve been taking stock of the possible firebreaks against Trump’s illegal marauding. One is the Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the rule of law. The high court has belatedly [...]
Fascism’s Feeble Firebreaks – The American Prospect
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 [...]