Trump Once Called This Trade Deal the Best We’ve Ever Made. On July 1, He Refused to Renew It.
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is the trade deal that governs most of what crosses the borders between the three North American economies, covering $1.8 trillion in annual goods and services trade and nearly 30 percent of the world's economic...
The Supreme Court Just Ruled That the 14th Amendment Means What It Says. Trump Is Asking Congress to Change It.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 30, 2026, that children born in the United States to parents who are in the country without legal status, or who are here on temporary visas, are American citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice John...
The Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Almost Any Agency Head He Wants. The Fed Got the One Exception.
The Supreme Court ruled June 29, 2026, that President Trump can fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will, even when Congress passed laws saying those officials could only be removed for specific cause. In doing so, the Court's six conservative justices...
A Federal Judge Just Blocked the Plan to Have the Postal Service Decide Whose Mail Ballot Gets Delivered.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration cannot enforce key parts of an executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service refuse to deliver mail ballots to voters who were not on a federally generated...
The Supreme Court Cleared the Way to End Protections for 350,000 Haitians. A Republican Congressman Says That Will Empty Hospitals.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 25, 2026, in Mullin v. Doe that the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status, a designation that lets people from countries in crisis live and work in the United States legally without facing deportation, for more...
Congress Passed a Housing Bill 85 to 5. Trump Cancelled the Signing an Hour Before It Started.
The Senate passed the 21st Century Road to Housing Act on June 22, 2026, by a vote of 85 to 5. The House passed it the next day, 358 to 32. It is one of the largest housing affordability bills in decades, with support from both parties in numbers rarely seen on any...
DOJ Said the Fund Was Dead. Asked to Put That in Writing, It Said No.
Two federal judges in two separate courts have spent June asking the Justice Department to confirm, formally and in writing, that it has abandoned the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. In both cases, the department has declined. The fund itself traces back to a...
Five Student Loan Changes Hit on the Same Day, July 1. Here Is What Each One Costs You.
On July 1, 2026, five separate changes to the federal student loan system take effect at once. The Biden-era SAVE repayment plan officially ends. New borrowing limits and a new repayment plan created by last year's reconciliation law begin. Interest rates rise for the...
Nebraska Started Enforcing Medicaid Work Rules in May. Economists Say a Million Jobs Are at Stake.
Nebraska Started Enforcing Medicaid Work Rules in May. Economists Say a Million Jobs Are at Stake. On May 1, 2026, Nebraska became the first state to begin enforcing Medicaid work requirements created by the 2025 reconciliation law, ahead of the national deadline....
The Senate Funded ICE With $70 Billion. It Also Protected a $1.8 Billion Fund a Judge Already Blocked.
The Senate passed a $70 billion bill on June 5, 2026 to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through the end of Trump's term. The vote was 52 to 47. Every Democrat voted no. The only Republican who voted no was Lisa Murkowski of Alaska....
Two Courts Ruled His Tariffs Illegal. Households Are Paying $2,512 Anyway.
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that President Trump's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unlawful. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion. The ruling struck down both the Reciprocal Tariffs first imposed in April...
Trump Won’t Renew FISA Without the SAVE Act. Here Is What the SAVE Act Would Actually Do.
FISA Section 702, the surveillance law that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor foreign targets, expired on June 12. On June 14, President Trump posted on Truth Social to explain his conditions for bringing it back. "I'm against FISA if it doesn't come with...
Trump Put a Man With No Security Clearance in Charge of U.S. Intelligence. Democrats Let a Key Spy Law Expire.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lapsed on June 12, 2026, the first time the law has expired since it was passed in 2008. Congress had the votes to extend it. Democrats chose not to provide them. The reason: President Trump had just installed...
Trump Said “I Love the Inflation.” Here Is What 4.2 Percent Actually Looks Like.
In the Oval Office on Tuesday, with a reporter asking about consumer prices, President Trump said something that is going to be difficult to explain to every American household paying 4.2 percent more for everything than they were a year ago. "You know what I really...
Democrats Demanded Accountability Before Funding ICE. They Got Nothing. The Bill Passed Anyway.
The House passed the Secure America Act on Tuesday, 214 to 212. The bill funds ICE and Border Patrol for the next three years at a total of roughly $70 billion. Zero Democrats voted for it. Zero of the accountability measures they demanded were included. It heads to...
The Courts Killed Trump’s Tariffs. He Labeled Them Forced Labor and Brought Them Back.
In February, the Supreme Court struck down the sweeping global tariffs Donald Trump had imposed on nearly every country on Earth. The justices ruled he had exceeded his authority. The tariffs that had been generating tens of billions of dollars a month for the federal...
Trump Endorsed Him Four Days Before the Vote. Iowa Republicans Said No Anyway.
On Tuesday, Iowa Republicans handed Donald Trump a defeat that has not happened anywhere else this primary season. Businessman Zach Lahn beat Trump's hand-picked candidate, Rep. Randy Feenstra, in the Republican primary for governor. The margin was less than a single...
The Senate Gave Trump $70 Billion for ICE. It Also Let Him Keep the Slush Fund.
The Senate voted 52 to 47 Thursday morning to pass a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol through the end of the Trump administration. The vote came after 18 straight hours of procedural votes. One Republican, Lisa Murkowski of...
Trump Promised to Protect Social Security. His Bill Is Draining It Faster.
The Congressional Budget Office now projects that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2032. That is one year sooner than the Social Security Administration's own trustees had projected last year. If Congress does not act before then, 67 million...
A Court Found Intentional Discrimination. The Supreme Court Said Use the Map Anyway.
A three-judge federal panel found in 2023 that Alabama's congressional map intentionally diluted the voting power of Black citizens. The court ordered the state to draw a new map. Alabama refused. The case went to the Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, in a 6-3 ruling...
Trump Nearly Tripled His Net Worth in Office. Democrats Just Made That Their Whole Strategy.
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2024, Forbes put his net worth at $2.3 billion. By March 2026, Forbes put it at $6.5 billion. That is a $4.2 billion increase in roughly 14 months. Democrats have noticed. And they are making it the central argument of their...
He Appointed Them. They Ruled Against Him. Now He Says They Sicken Him.
Donald Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch in 2017. He appointed Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. He called them both great justices who would restore the Constitution. In February, they voted with three liberal justices to strike down his tariffs 6-3. Trump said their decision...
Trump Lost in Court. Now His DOJ Is Investigating the Woman Who Beat Him.
A federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 2023. A second jury ordered him to pay her $83 million in a defamation case in 2024. Carroll won. Trump lost. Now his Justice Department is investigating her. The DOJ opened a criminal...
Paxton Won by 28. Cook Just Moved Texas. Here Is What Happens Next.
On Tuesday we told you that Trump had endorsed the most beatable Republican in Texas. On Tuesday night, Texas Republicans made him their nominee by 28 points. Ken Paxton took 64 percent of the runoff vote. John Cornyn got 36. The margin was not close. And within...
3.5 Million People Have Already Lost Food Stamps. The Cuts Are Just Getting Started.
The Big Beautiful Bill did not just cut Medicaid. It cut food stamps too. Since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed on July 4, 2025, SNAP participation has dropped by more than 3.5 million people. That is a 9 percent decline in eight months. And the biggest cuts...
Trump Endorsed the Most Beatable Republican in Texas. The Runoff Is Today.
Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas since 1994. That streak may end in November. And President Trump may be the reason why. Today, May 26, Texas Republicans vote in a Senate primary runoff between four-term incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken...
The Big Beautiful Bill Cut $880 Billion from Medicaid. Here Is What That Actually Means.
The deadlines are arriving. Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. The House passed it 218 to 214. The Senate passed it 51 to 50. The bill included nearly $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade. Congress called it a budget...
Trump Sued the IRS for $10 Billion. He Settled — With Your Money. And Quietly Made Himself Immune from Audits.
Here is how it worked. Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2024 for $10 billion, claiming an IRS employee had illegally leaked his tax records. Rather than take the case to court and fight it on the merits, the Justice Department — now run by Trump's own...
Charles Booker Is the Nominee. Keisha Lance Bottoms Is Making History. And the Guy Who Defied Trump Is Gone.
Tuesday was a good night. Charles Booker is the Democratic nominee for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat. Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Georgia Democratic governor primary outright — no runoff, no waiting — and is now running to become the first Black woman elected...
Five Million People Lost Health Coverage This Year. Congress Had a Chance to Stop It.
At the end of 2025, enhanced federal subsidies that had been lowering health insurance premiums for millions of Americans expired. Congress did not renew them. The results are now visible in the data: roughly five million people have dropped their marketplace...