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Mike Johnson Digs His Own Grave By Saying Tax Cuts For The Rich Will Lower Grocery Prices
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Mike Johnson Digs His Own Grave By Saying Tax Cuts For The Rich Will Lower Grocery Prices

Tax Cuts For The Rich Are The Snake Oil That Republicans Claim Can Do Anything Over the years, Republicans have made a lot of claims about the great things that tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations can do. Republicans have claimed that tax cuts pay for themselves when…

byThe editor19 January 20258 March 2025
Lindsey Graham Melts Down When Asked About Kash Patel
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Lindsey Graham Melts Down When Asked About Kash Patel

PoliticusUSA is brought to you ad-free because of the support of our readers. To support our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Lindsey Graham Blows Up While Being Questioned About Kash Patel The host of CBS’s Face The Nation, Margaret Brennan, asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) the very…

byThe editor19 January 20258 March 2025
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Jim Jordan Gives Democrats A Huge Gift By Promising To Investigate Jack Smith

PoliticusUSA is brought to you ad-free by our subscribers. Please join a community of people who want their opinion and analysis billionaire-free by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Jim Jordan’s Gift To Democrats Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) doesn’t believe in using his power to pass legislation. Jordan is consistently one…

byThe editor19 January 2025
The Free Press Crumbles As CBS Considers Bribing Trump With Lawsuit Payoff
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The Free Press Crumbles As CBS Considers Bribing Trump With Lawsuit Payoff

CBS May Bend The Knee To Trump Months ago, Donald Trump filed a frivolous lawsuit against CBS where he claimed that 60 Minutes edited their interview with Kamala Harris. The Wall Street Journal reported: Paramount Global executives have held internal discussions about settling a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over…

byThe editor18 January 20258 March 2025
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Democrats Can Make The Presidency A Living Hell For Trump

The Daily is an independent newsletter outside the Beltway and fighting for things regular Americans care about. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Democrats Aren’t Buying Into Trump’s Outrage It was a pattern that repeated itself over and over again. Trump, first as a candidate and…

byThe editor18 January 2025
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Justice From Mother Nature As Big Donors Won’t Get Access To Trump Inauguration

PoliticusUSA needs your support. If you are enjoying the free articles that have no ads, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Imagine being a rich person who wants to buy access to an incoming presidential administration that is definitely up for sale. Dumping some well placed millions into Trump’s…

byThe editor18 January 2025
Confidence In Trump’s Ability To Handle The Economy Collapses
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Confidence In Trump’s Ability To Handle The Economy Collapses

To get every word of every article delivered to your inbox and to support the news and views that share your values, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now The American People Aren’t Very Confident In Trump To Handle The Economy It turns out that a whole lot of Americans…

byThe editor18 January 20258 March 2025
Trump Inauguration To Feature The Smallest Crowd In Decades
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Trump Inauguration To Feature The Smallest Crowd In Decades

PoliticusUSA needs your support. If you find our work informative and necessary, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Nothing Is Going Trump’s Way Trump had big plans for his return to Washington. He intended to draw the MAGAs into the city with a rally the night before he took…

byThe editor17 January 20258 March 2025
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Biden Blows Trump Away In Unedited Interview With Lawrence O’Donnell

PoliticusUSA is now ad-free and big tech-free, but in order to be an independent platform, we need reader support. If you can, please support us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now What stood out about Lawrence O’Donnell’s interview with Joe Biden was just how wrong so many of the media-created…

byThe editor17 January 2025
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Treasury Secretary Pick Makes It Clear Trump Will Screw The Working Poor

The poor and working poor who cast their ballots for Donald Trump don’t seem to have any idea what they voted for, but Trump’s nominees like Scott Bessent are spelling it out for them. PoliticusUSA is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a…

byThe editor16 January 2025
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House Democrats Tell Merrick Garland To Release Jack Smith’s Report On Trump’s Classified Docs Theft

PoliticusUSA is brought to you without ads or big tech influence by reader subscriptions. Please support our work by considering becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now House Democrats Want Jack Smith’s Report On Trump And Classified Documents In a letter to Garland, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and…

byThe editor16 January 2025
Biden Goes Out With A Bang By Labeling Trump An Oligarch
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Biden Goes Out With A Bang By Labeling Trump An Oligarch

PoliticusUSA has no ads and no corporate influence. We rely on our readers for support, so please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Biden Goes There And Labels Trump A Rising Oligarchy Joe Biden’s farewell address did not disappoint. The President did not play it totally safe and talk solely…

byThe editor16 January 20258 March 2025
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As Biden Gets Gaza Ceasefire, Republicans Say Trump Didn’t Really Mean He’d End Ukraine War In A Day

PoliticusUSA is 100% ad-free thanks to the support of our readers. You can make sure that our work stays ad-free by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Guess What? Trump Can’t End The War In Ukraine In A Day Donald Trump bragged, boasted, and promised on the campaign trail that he…

byThe editor15 January 2025
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Trump Tries To Steal The Credit For Biden’s Gaza Ceasefire

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byThe editor15 January 2025
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The House In Chaos As Nancy Mace Challenges Jasmine Crockett To A Fight

To support PoliticusUSA and our new ad-free platform, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now At a House hearing, this was the exchange between Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Nancy Mace occurred. Crockett, “ Somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So she gonna keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that…

byThe editor15 January 2025
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Another Trump Scheme Crashes and Burns As Mike Johnson Says He’ll Need Democratic Debt Limit Votes

PoliticusUSA is 100% ad-free, corporation-free, and reader-supported. We are free to say what the mainstream media is afraid to say because of readers like you, so please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now It was just a few days ago that Trump and Mike Johnson were going…

byThe editor14 January 2025
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Senate Democrats Are Destroying Pete Hegseth

Please subscribe to support our work at PoliticusUSA. Subscribe now Senate Democrats Unload on Pete Hegseth Trump’s unqualified defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth has run into a world of trouble from Senate Democrats who haven’t shied away from asking him about his misogyny, allegations of sexual abuse, and cheating on…

byThe editor14 January 2025
Jack Smith Was Going To Convict Donald Trump
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Jack Smith Was Going To Convict Donald Trump

PoliticusUSA has broken free of big tech and relies on no billionaires. We need the support of readers like you to keep this platform independent, so please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Jack Smith’s Case Against Donald Trump Even after the Supreme Court pulled a new definition of presidential…

byThe editor14 January 20258 March 2025
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Arizona AG Requests Jack Smith’s Case Files For Criminal Prosecutions

PoliticusUSA is solely supported by readers like you, and the one way that you can get access to every single word of every post is to become a subscriber. Please subscribe. Subscribe now Trump will take office in a week. Jack Smith has resigned from the DOJ, and the federal…

byThe editor13 January 2025
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Disaster For Trump As Republicans Might Not Be Able To Pass Tax Cuts For The Rich This Year

PoliticusUSA is entirely ad-free and only supported by our readers, so if you would like to support our work, please consider subscribing. Subscribe now Republicans are having a massive problem getting their act together to pass their tax cuts for the rich. So far, House and Senate Republicans can’t agree…

byThe editor13 January 2025

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  • Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup

    The president tried to give his billionaire benefactor a dignified exit. It didn’t work.

  • When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways

    The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.

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    The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.

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    The Trump administration is finally abiding by a court order and returning the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the...

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The Hill

  • Trump: Musk will face 'serious consequences' if he donates to Democrats

    President Trump on Saturday said tech billionaire Elon Musk will face “serious consequences” if he moves to support Democratic political candidates in any upcoming elections, following a public rift between the two in recent days. In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said Musk “will have to pay the consequences” if he backs opponents...

  • Blumenthal casts doubt on Abrego Garcia prosecution: ‘Charges are not evidence’

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    The Trump administration sowed confusion and fear among physicians with its move this past week to rescind Biden-era guidelines to hospitals that provide life-saving abortions.  While the move doesn't change the law, doctors and reproductive-rights advocates fear it will have a chilling effect on health care workers in states with abortion bans, ultimately harming pregnant...

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    Concerns over the normalization of interest rates and the widening fiscal and trade deficits in the U.S. have led to fears of a potential "crisis" in the bond market, with experts noting that the current political inability to address fiscal profligacy could lead to a crisis in the long-term.

  • Person who wrote bomb threat on Florida flight sought by FBI

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NPR

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Politico

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    Democrats eyeing a presidential bid in 2028 scramble to move to the center.

  • Elon Musk goes on a warpath against Trump and the GOP

    The fallout from the very public breakup could engulf Republican hopes of holding onto the House.

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    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 politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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The Guardian

  • Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats

    President said he’s ‘too busy doing other things’ to try to reconcile with erstwhile ally and campaign backerDonald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week.The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News set to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans’ budget legislation an “abomination”. Continue reading...

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  • JD Vance says Elon Musk’s attack against Trump is a ‘huge mistake’

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  • Kristi Noem: the made-for-TV official executing Trump’s mass deportations

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  • Fired US librarian of Congress details callous dismissal in new interview

    Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to serve in role, details firing by Trump administration to CBSThe first woman and African American to serve as the US librarian of Congress before Donald Trump fired her in May has not heard from the president’s administration beyond the 31-word email it sent her with word of her dismissal, she has revealed in her first interview since her ouster.“No one has talked to me directly at all from the White House,” Carla Hayden says in an interview airing on the upcoming CBS News Sunday Morning. “I’ve received no communication directly, except for that one email. Continue reading...

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