The federal government is headed for a shutdown on Friday unless Congress can agree in time to a stop-gap spending measure. But if GOP leaders don’t add provisions reversing every lawless spending cut made by Elon Musk’s supposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), every Democrat in the House and Senate must vote “no.” After all, […]

As the New York Times detailed, Elon Musk and his DOGE non-agency are now routinely accessing vital government computer systems at the Treasury Department, the GSA, the IRS and other federal bureaus. President Trump’s “special government employee” has deployed engineers as young as 19 to peruse and mine sensitive government systems previously off limits to […]

On the same day that all 11 GOP members of the Senate Budget Committee voted to advance the nomination of Trump OMB pick Russ Vought, some of their Republican colleagues rang the alarm bell about the impact of the President’s wide-ranging federal spending freeze. As one anonymous GOP Senator told The Hill, “Republicans were starting […]

Donald Trump’s clear victory in yesterday’s presidential election certainly seemed to prove the old maxim that perception is reality. Exit polls of 10 battleground states showed that 68% of those surveyed said the economy was “not so good” (35%) or “poor” (33%). Of the third (32%) who identified the economy as the issue that mattered […]

There is much we still don’t know in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The shooter’s motives and mental state remain a mystery. Exactly how the Secret Service and local authorities failed to secure the would-be assassin’s location and prevent his deadly fire is still undetermined. An authoritative ballistics assessment of the […]

Republicans are learning that IVF is, to borrow from Joe Biden, a BFD. In the two weeks since the Alabama Supreme Court shockingly ruled that frozen embryos are children, polls show that the American people overwhelmingly disagree. A CBS News/YouGov survey found that 86% believe in vitro fertilization must remain legal. In response to that […]

As Texas Governor Greg Abbott doubles down on the Lone Star State’s refusal to follow federal immigration law and the ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the border with Mexico, it is worth recalling the words of the President of the United States: The power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by […]

Virtually alone among major world economies, the United States has a debt ceiling which limits how much money the government can borrow to pay the bills it has already incurred. From the time Congress created the debt limit in 1917 to simply the massive borrowing need to fund the U.S effort in World War I […]

In much the same way that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Mitt Romney regularly appears to offer himself as the elder statesman the United States needs to lead the nation out of troubled times. The failed 2012 GOP White House hopeful and current Utah Senator is it at again, […]

In the wake of the leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Dobbs opinion eviscerating reproductive rights in the United States, opponents took to the streets to protest in front of several of the conservative justices’ homes. And Republicans are none too happy about it. Despite existing federal law likely prohibiting such protests and unanimous […]