After Tuesday night’s elections, Republicans are starting to worry that the shock and awe of President Donald Trump’s second term will haunt them in the 2026 midterms. Inside the GOP,

Continue reading…Republicans are increasingly anxious about a midterms wipeout

Republicans are facing a trifecta of major challenges this week on President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, his trade war escalation and the biggest test of the party’s political staying power

Continue reading…Capitol agenda: The GOP’s 3 big tests in April

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Rural swaths of the country that helped power Donald Trump to victory are facing serious economic headwinds inflicted by his administration. The results of Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court race on

Continue reading…Trump may be gambling with his rural support in Wisconsin

Michael Bennet seemed destined for a lifetime appointment to the Senate. He was tapped for a vacancy in 2009, the same moment Colorado was turning perpetually blue. The Democratic son

Continue reading…Will Michael Bennet Shift his Fight Against Trump to the State House?

The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on a Democratic resolution aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose a 25 percent

Continue reading…Senate Democrats to force vote next week on Trump’s fentanyl tariffs on Canada

Elon Musk will visit Wisconsin on Sunday ahead of the state’s high-profile Supreme Court election. Musk initially announced the plan in a post shortly after midnight on Friday, promising a

Continue reading…Musk butts up against Wisconsin state law with (now deleted) $1 million check giveaway

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has an assessment of her one-time presidential rival’s administration’s handling of sensitive information: “It’s just dumb.” Clinton — who faced off against President Donald

Continue reading…‘It’s just dumb’: Hillary Clinton slams Trump administration on Signalgate

House GOP leaders are racing to head off a vote being pushed by one of their own members on a measure that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to

Continue reading…GOP leaders scramble to squelch vote on parental proxy voting

A group of Senate Republicans left a meeting with top White House officials Thursday saying they are increasingly confident that President Donald Trump will send a package of spending cuts

Continue reading…GOP senators expect White House to send spending cuts — eventually

Sen. Mitch McConnell warned Thursday that advisers to President Donald Trump are pursuing an “illusory peace” with Russia that “shreds America’s credibility, leaves Ukraine under threat, weakens our alliances and

Continue reading…McConnell slams Trump administration’s peace talks with Russia

President Donald Trump’s decision to keep Rep. Elise Stefanik in Congress is the clearest sign yet that the political environment has become so challenging for Republicans that they don’t want

Continue reading…Stefanik’s withdrawal suggests Republicans are sweating their thin margins

President Donald Trump’s unexpected decision to withdraw Rep. Elise Stefanik’s U.N. nomination and keep her in the House is exposing fresh electoral fears for the GOP — and creating some

Continue reading…Capitol agenda: Stefanik’s return reveals GOP fears

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of

Continue reading…The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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Chuck Schumer is bruised but not beaten — at least not yet. Two weeks after the Senate minority leader joined with Republicans to prevent a government shutdown, Democrats are still

Continue reading…Schumer keeps his job as Democrats wonder if he’s on borrowed time

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated there was at least one point of agreement from their White House meeting Tuesday: Adding a debt ceiling hike to

Continue reading…Capitol agenda: One major agreement on Trump’s agenda

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is gearing up for perhaps the most difficult election battle of his long career, securing an early endorsement from Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday,

Continue reading…Thune endorses Cornyn ahead of what could be a thorny primary

A Republican lawmaker is rejecting White House efforts to downplay the inadvertent sharing of military attack plans with a journalist on an unclassified group chat. “The White House is in

Continue reading…‘The White House is in denial’: A Republican rejects the latest group-chat deflections