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According to longtime Intelligencer political columnist Ed Kilgore, there are “alarming” signs that Republican lawmakers are “giving” up on winning the midterms in favor of jamming through as much of their agenda as possible before losing power. Evidence, he suggests, is in the fact that they are now focusing on passing unpopular safety net cuts to fund President Donald Trump’s unpopular war. As Kilgore explains, you can see this trend emerging in Trump and the Republicans’ multiple budget reconciliation bills. They’ve just passed their second

Politico Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein reports yet another judge is slapping President Donald Trump’s DOJ around for grade-school behavior.The slap-down came after the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro crawled, hat-in-hand, requesting the extension of a deadline to complete research to make its case in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Shorelight, LLC against the U.S. government over student visa refusal rates.“The Department repre

President Donald Trump and his supporters keep insisting that inflation is not as bad as most Americans believe to be the case — and a conservative is warning him that you cannot gaslight people about their own finances.“Inflation rose to 4.2 percent in May, the highest increase since a 2023 surge under President Joe Biden in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone on Thursday. “President Trump, who pledged to ‘quickly defeat inflation’ upon returning to the White House, and who in September lied that the economy had ‘no inflation,’ responded to the news with yet another call

Emergency workers swarmed the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to investigate massive numbers etched into the grass that appeared to spell out an “86 47” message.U.S. Park Police, the Washington, D.C. Fire Department, and the National Guard responded to the appearance of the numbers, which could only be read from a distant height, such as the top of the Washington Monument, according to The Washington Post. A large “8” can distinctly be seen from an

Charlie Sykes, former editor of the conservative Bulwark, says a convergence of problems are descending on President Donald Trump, and the aging, frustrated president is clearly showing his anger.When Trump brazenly admitted that “I love the inflation” it was not the low point of his day, said Sykes.“As we are seeing, an increasingly frustrated Trump is realizing that he cannot escape either the Epstein Files or the Iran War he launched on a whim. … inflation is surging, his poll numbers continue to fall, his big Freedom 250 concert imploded, hi

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale is scorching President Donald Trump for employing a “time-tested conspiracist tactic,” namely, altering his conspiracy theory when the facts disprove it.Dale reminds readers that when then-President Barack Obama in 2011 had to publish his long-form birth certificate, which proved decisively that he was, in fact, born in the U.S., Trump didn’t cease and desist — instead, he changed tactics and suggested that the birth certificate itself was fake.“It’s a time-tested conspiracist tactic,” Dale

Despite widespread concerns that Social Security will soon be forced to reduce benefits, one economics journalist recently argued these fears are overblown.“Few deceptions in American politics are quite so pernicious as the notion that the Social Security trust fund exists,” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s economics reporter Joseph C. Sternberg on Thursday. “Again this week we’ve received another warning that trust funds that are essentially nonexistent are on the verge of running out of money they already don’t have.”Sternberg argued that

Republicans who have lost their primary races are blaming everyone but themselves, NOTUS found on Thursday. Reporters Daniella Diaz and Reese Gorman spoke to some of the GOP House members who have fallen in primaries for other offices about what they think is going wrong. "In just the last few weeks, Rep. Dusty Johnson didn’t make the runoff to be South Dakota’s GOP nominee for governor, Rep. Randy Feenstra lost his bid to be Iowa’s GOP nominee for governor and Reps. Ralph Norman and Nancy Mace both didn’t make a runoff Tuesday night to win the GOP nomination to compete to be South Carolina’s next governor," the re

Wichita Eagle columnist Dion Lefler does not suffer idiots easily. He also has no patience for Kansas senators who blow lies on “propaganda network” Newsmax, blaming a long-gone president for President Donald Trump’s bad choices.“Faced with a threat to the U.S. beef industry, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall has leapt into action to do what he does best — blame Joe Biden and Hispanics,” writes Lefler. “Never mind that his heroes, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, probably bear more responsibility because they defunded an animal-health program that was preventing the threat.Lefler said Marshall, who is a member of the Senate Agricultural Committee, got invited to Newsmax �

The Republican-run Pima County Attorney's Office issued a report that Sheriff Mark Lamb got special treatment when it came to sexual misconduct and other allegations. Lamb, who is running for Congress in Arizona's Fifth District, was never investigated for the 2020 allegations under the previous county leadership and the Board of Supervisors, but GOP County Attorney Brad Miller's office did, the Arizona Republic said. "The former county attorney also failed to document Lamb's own request to investigate and possibly charge two women who were posting sexual images and messages they say the sheriff sen