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July 3, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump and the GOP Will Regret the Day They Passed This Sick Bill
It’s a historic moment, alright—just not in the way the Republicans believe.
July 3, 2025
Robert McCoy
Hakeem Jeffries Speaks for Six Hours as He Delays Trump Budget
The House minority leader has been speaking for more than six hours in an effort to stop Trump’s disastrous budget.
July 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Panic-Spirals as Republicans Revolt Over Trump Budget
Republicans rebelling over Donald Trump’s budget bill have the House of Representatives in shambles.
July 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
House Freedom Caucus Releases Rant on Why Trump’s Budget Is Trash
Donald Trump’s overtures to the right wing of the Republican Party do not seem to have worked.
July 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Why Mike Johnson Already Has a Huge Obstacle in Passing Trump’s Budget
For once, the problem isn’t getting Republicans to all agree on something.
July 1, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Lisa Murkowski’s Strategy on Trump Budget Bill Is Already Backfiring
House Speaker Mike Johnson has thrown a wrench into the Alaska senator’s brilliant plan.
June 10, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Says Gavin Newsom Should be “Tarred and Feathered”
Johnson is backing Trump’s fight with the California governor over the L.A. protests.
June 4, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Rush to Suck Up to Elon Musk After New Budget Bill Threat
Republicans who backed the bill are suddenly scrambling to reject it.
June 2, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Out-of-Control Debt Is Not a Bug. To the GOP, It’s a Feature.
Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.
May 22, 2025
Timothy Noah
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail
Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
May 21, 2025
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy.
May 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
It Sure Looks Like Trump Just Killed His Own Budget Bill
Donald Trump spent his morning urging Republicans to fall in line. It doesn’t seem to have worked.
May 20, 2025
Timothy Noah
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country
The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.
May 15, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
“We’re Cooked”: Republicans Are About to Tank Their Own Budget
House Republicans are freaking out about their own budget bill.
May 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Open Corruption
Apparently, Mike Johnson thinks there is a right way to be corrupt.
May 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump’s Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam
Donald Trump talked a good game about raising taxes on the rich. Guess who benefits from a provision buried deep within the new GOP bill?
May 14, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Republican Tax Bill Screws the Working Class
Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.
May 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Could Medicaid Cuts Lead Republicans to Break With Trump?
$880 billion in proposed cuts are making some GOP members of Congress very nervous.
April 29, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Mike Johnson Quietly Moves to Block Democrats Investigating Trump
The House speaker is preparing to block Democrats’ inquiries into the Trump administration, as the scandals keep piling up.
April 21, 2025
Marin Scotten
MAGA Republicans Get Ready to Gut Medicaid to Help Trump
“Millions” of people will lose health insurance if Republicans push these plans through.
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