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'This time, we finally beat Big Pharma!' crowed President Joe Biden following the conclusion of the first round of Medicare drug price negotiations initiated under the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Democrats have hailed the results as gamechangers, and Kamala Harris made this signal effort to rein in drug prices a key part of her (ultimately failed) election campaign., Give President Biden some credit here. Few Washington insiders believed that even the modest progress to date would be possible, given that drugmakers have successfully brushed aside challenges to their [...]

A senior Tory has hailed (https://www.politics.co.uk/tag/donald-trump/) Donald Trump and Elon Musk's 'dynamism', calling it 'relatively refreshing'. Andrew Griffith, a close ally of (https://www.politics.co.uk/tag/conservatives/) Conservative Party leader (https://www.politics.co.uk/tag/kemi-badenoch/) Kemi Badenoch, said [...]

(https://bitcoinmagazine.com) Bitcoin Magazine (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitcoin-blockchain-used-to-secure-results-of-tennessee-countys-republican-convention-vote) Bitcoin Blockchain Used To Secure Results Of Tennessee County's Republican Convention Vote On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Williamson Country Republican Party held its convention at [...]

In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the [...]

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at (https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/) therevolvingdoorproject.org. During his March 4th address to Congress, President Donald Trump defended [...]

Byline: Ross Barkan If the first election of Donald Trump was a boon to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, the second might have granted new life to moderates. [...]

Tara Setmayer thinks the GOP is doing a lot of gaslighting to keep the American people convinced President Donald Trump is making their lives better. In the wake of Trump's [...]

Byline: Nia Prater On Tuesday night, (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-approval-rating-polls-inflation.html) President Trump will give the first joint address to Congress since his reelection. 'TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE [...]

Universal basic income was once thought politically impossible. Then came Andrew Yang and COVID-19. Basic income programs are now gaining traction, offering payments to struggling families. Many Democrats and Republicans, [...]

PLUS:Senators ask how layoffs impact transplants; Chavez-DeRemer clears HELP; Lieu looks to save AI Safety Institute; and Slotkin to give Dem response. Congressional Republicans began peeling away President Biden's climate [...]

Democrats--voters and politicians alike--were left reeling by their stinging defeat in November 2024. The initial shock was common to both groups, but the two have diverged in how they're approaching [...]

House Republicans passed a budget plan that could include big cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid covers over 72 million Americans, with significant reliance in states like California. Mike Johnson said Republicans [...]

BlackRock removed DEI mentions from its annual report amid political pressure. The asset manager has faced criticism from Republicans for being too 'woke.' Here's how BlackRock has tried to distance [...]

After sending members home for the night, House Republicans called them back on Tuesday and secured passage of an expansive budget resolution that includes virtually the entire Trump agenda. The [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F159d27d0-38d4-4b51-a1f6-1e910f18b8fc_826x549.jpeg) A voter asks Rep. Paul Tonko (D-New York) to get into Good Trouble. Video screenshot, (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGSC4B8goaB/?igsh=ZDg2c2l1Z3FhdzU4) MiltonNYDems on Instagram. (Image digitally altered to put subtitle in frame with voter; [...]

PLUS:Trump tech-policy nominees poised for confirmation; Medicaid talks moving away from per-capita caps; and workers fearful of future impact of AI on job market. House GOP leadership walked on the [...]

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, announced last week that he will be retiring at the end of his term and not seeking reelection in 2026. [...]

(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1540908390241-82158ab62887?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzfHx2b3Rpbmd8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzQwNTAyNjA2fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080) Photo by (https://www.wonkette.com/true) Element5 Digital on (https://unsplash.com) Unsplash Gee terwilligers, everything Donald Trump is doing is superduper unpopular! He has the (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating#cite_ref-25) lowest approval rating in his first month [...]

Just about the worst thing that can befall a political party is to have the electorate think it's not focused at all on the public's primary and immediate concerns. That [...]

Rachel Maddow said even Republicans are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's sudden influx of firings and layoffs as DOGE continues to downsize the federal government. [...]

(https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump) Donald Trump endorsed a House GOP budget plan. Republicans' outline would likely lead to billions in Medicaid cuts, which insures over 70 million Americans. In an interview alongside (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk) [...]

Some Republicans are beginning to speak up against DOGE-led cuts to federal jobs. It tends to happen when those cuts impact their home states. They've made sure to emphasize their [...]

Trump nominated former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be his labor secretary. She supported pro-union legislation in the House, drawing praise from Democratic senators. DOGE and Trump's recent moves are [...]

Byline: Ross Barkan 'They're all technofeudalists, they don't give a flying fuck about the human being. And I don't care if you're Black, White, Hispanic, Chinese - they don't care,' [...]

The Trump administration has frozen USDA grants, impacting farmers. Now, a key Democratic group says they'll hold vulnerable House Republicans 'accountable' for it. It's an early look at how Trump's [...]

House Republicans unveiled a budget draft that potentially cuts critical Medicaid funding. The Budget Committee draft instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee to cut at least $880 billion. House and [...]

Byline: David Leggett Donald Trump made numerous pledges during his presidential campaign to end the United States' 'preposterous' focus on electric vehicles (EVs) introduced by the last president Joe Biden [...]

The Democratic Party has been discombobulated by the Trump administration's 'shock and awe' upending of American government. With Republican control of the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, Democrats [...]

POLITICS / TRUMP’S RETURN THE ROILED OPPOSITION Democrats can’t agree on what to do next BY PHILIP ELLIOTT When Senator John Fetterman got word that President-elect Donald Trump wanted to [...]

Plus:New faces at House T&I, Commerce Dept. Jayne Millerickis the new vice president and state-executives liaison lead at DCI Group, where she will work on engagement with governors and state [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore 2025 is likely to be an extremely difficult year for people serving in state governments. Aside from the regular perils of trying to govern when so many [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a0a04b6-ee2c-4051-938c-7b883736c4c8_1370x764.png) For those (us!) who have been yelling 'WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?!' an answer came yesterday. (https://www.wonkette.com/p/opposition-leader-aoc-you-can-take) As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained on Intsagram Live the other night, it's no [...]

The starting money gun for the midterms has fired. With 2024 in the rearview mirror, the money race is already underway for next year's midterms. Year-end campaign finance reports filed [...]

History gives them about a 90 percent chance of retaking the House. Given how bad midterm elections tend to be for the party holding the White House, it would be [...]

Over the weekend, Elon Musk and his team of 20-somethings functionally shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which has been the country's foreign aid department since JFK [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddb4afe5-61ec-4b4e-b75b-ee2c687dc602_2352x1234.png) Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar at today's press conference in front of USAID We have spent the last day or two puzzling over President Elon Musk's apparent antipathy towards the [...]

Sen. Mitch McConnell criticized Trump's across-the-board tariffs in an interview on Sunday. He said the tariffs will 'drive the cost of everything up' and antagonize US allies. 'It will be [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cff5aa-80c3-4198-a45e-3723a3fd4f64_2953x1529.jpeg) The US Capitol on a nice day when Trump supporters didn't decide to visit. This post was originally published at Ali's newsletter (https://davis-ex-machina.beehiiv.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-majority-of-congressional-democrats) Davis Ex Machina. Hello, Congressional Democrats! [...]

Democratic leaders sound understandably cautious when talking about whether President Donald Trump has a mandate, or what steps Democrats should take now. They are respecting the voters who put Trump [...]

Democrats are outnumbered in Congress. Major policy debates among Democrats are instead unfolding in the states. From housing to school lunches, state Democrats are finding ways to advance their agenda. [...]

Spurred on by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles that experts say were climate-change related, the activist group Climate Defiance held a protest on January 31 at the Gaylord National [...]

The Trump administration has come right out of the gates with a clear message that the White House is open for business, especially if you're a tech executive hailing from [...]

PLUS:Senate confirms Bessent; Dems unify against Jan. 6 pardons; AIDS, HIV funding in trouble; House GOP kicks off retreat; and Hegseth touts tech for troops. In his farewell address to [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / The big debate Are mega political donations ok? Some people think that money can buy them political power. In the 19th century, US campaign donations (money [...]

David Mastio [I.Miami Herald] “Democrats can no longer ignore what Americans want on immigration,” said David Mastio. When voters elected Donald Trump, they expressed their dissatisfaction with the massive influx [...]

PLUS:Trump leans into firings, punishment; Trump withdraws U.S. from WHO; Husted and Moody bring Senate to 100; and tech partnership building AI data centers. President Trump's decision Monday to issue [...]

Byline: Carten Cordell Roughly two weeks into a new session, the 119th Congress is continuing to forecast new restrictions on federal employee teleworking as a legislative priority for several Republican [...]

Byline: Margaret Hartmann,Chas Danner Back in 2016, Democrats were widely appalled by (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/when-will-trump-take-office-mlk-day-2025.html) Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, whom they (https://www.npr.org/2017/02/09/513926267/despite-recent-additions-trump-cabinet-still-emptier-than-predecessors) described as dangerous and 'historically unqualified.' Now even a few [...]

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve has a 4-3 Democratic majority. But in reality, it has a 4-3 Wall Street majority, and that's on a good day. As [...]