U.S. Politics Pulse

A new YouGov survey shows Republicans and Democrats enjoy greater political alignment with partners, family, and friends than Independents do.

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House members returned from a two-month recess facing Trump-driven controversies on Iran, beef imports, and the Great Lakes, plus a September funding...

Cancer advocates urge Congress to pass a full-year budget to preserve stability in federal research funding. An ACS CAN survey shows 89% of patients...

Public policy issues and debates can't be adequately understood without Latinos getting adequate consideration. CLAPR's student-led work, including...

• Democrats like Clyburn push expanding the Court to 13 seats to counter the conservative majority's grip, citing the post-Kennedy rightward shift and...

Democrats remain split on whether to center the 2026 midterms on Trump and MAGA or pivot to a wider policy agenda.

• Article 1 shows the party still...

The White House ballroom decision reveals how the Supreme Court's emergency docket lets Trump advance major projects with minimal scrutiny.

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Mike Lindell is vowing to seek U.S. Supreme Court review after the Minnesota Supreme Court denied his paper-ballot recount request in the...

Rep. LaMonica McIver frames her response to reelection pressure, federal assault charges, and Black women stereotypes around balance, faith, family...

Annie Andrews, a 20-year pediatrician, is the Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina after Lindsey Graham's death, centering her campaign on...

Republican attorneys general from 23 states are petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn Biden-era stricter limits on fine particulate matter,...

Can the 2027 federal pay freeze deliver real savings, or will it trigger hiring crises and weaker services?

Unions warn the freeze acts as a "slap in...

Federal agencies faced major delays switching to the new EIS telecom contract, forcing extensions until May 2026.

• Price spikes hit hard: Selected...

Rep. Massie opened a discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which strips the national-security classification exemption and...

Trump's teasing of a 2028 run serves multiple purposes: it energizes supporters through caps and social posts while he simultaneously describes...

The Trump Administration's new policy mandates Login.gov for most public-facing services, creating a single federal sign-on.

Key impacts include:
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Automatic stabilizers are the components of federal revenues and outlays that automatically increase or decrease with cyclical changes in the economy, directly linking budget deficits to economic ups and downs.

A proposed $372 million cut to the Essential Air Service program threatens to end commercial service at Quincy, Decatur, and Marion airports that rely...

Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots is pitched as protecting election integrity by verifying citizenship and adding security...

• Rubio stays in Washington to handle Trump's aggressive foreign policy instead of campaigning for GOP candidates
• State Department rules bar...