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...
Georgia Democrats Just Flipped a 30-Point Turnout Gap — Before a Single Vote Is Counted Tonight
Georgia holds its primary elections tomorrow. Before a single ballot is counted, the race has already produced a number worth paying attention to: more than one million people voted early, breaking the previous record for any Georgia primary. Of those, 56.7 percent...
Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat Is Open for the First Time Since 1984. Democrats Have a Candidate Worth Watching.
Mitch McConnell has held his Kentucky Senate seat since 1985. This fall, for the first time in four decades, his name will not be on the ballot. McConnell is retiring. The seat is open. And on Tuesday, Democrats in Kentucky will choose who they want to run for it. The...
Trump’s Pick Just Took Over the Federal Reserve. The Most Important Question Is Whether He Stays Independent.
Jerome Powell's term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends tomorrow. On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed his replacement by a vote of 54 to 45, the closest confirmation of a Fed chair in the modern era and the first to fall almost entirely along party lines. Kevin...
The Unit Built to Fight Corruption After Watergate Is Down to Two Lawyers
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section had roughly 40 full-time attorneys. The section was created after Watergate specifically to investigate and prosecute corruption by public officials. It...
Alabama Defied the Court Order for Years. The Supreme Court Just Let It Win Anyway.
For five years, Alabama fought to keep a congressional map that federal courts ruled was racially discriminatory. It lost in court repeatedly. It defied the orders anyway. On Monday, with voters already casting absentee ballots for a primary eight days away, the...
Every Special Election Since Trump Returned Has Swung Toward Democrats
Chedrick Greene is a firefighter from Saginaw, Michigan. On Tuesday, he won a state Senate seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried by less than one percentage point in 2024. He won it by 19. Greene's victory preserved the Democratic majority in the Michigan...
Two Appeals Courts Have Ruled Against Trump’s No-Bond Immigration Policy. Two Have Ruled For It.
Last July, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules on who could be held in immigration detention. A memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declared that immigrants who had entered the country without authorization were ineligible for bond hearings, full...
Trump’s DOJ Is Trying to Remove Voters Before November. The Tool It Is Using Keeps Flagging Citizens.
The Justice Department has sued 29 states to obtain their voter registration files. It is using a federal immigration database to identify suspected noncitizens on those rolls. In state after state, the database keeps flagging eligible American citizens. Courts have...
The Supreme Court Ruled Wednesday. By Friday, Two States Had Called Special Sessions.
The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling when the scramble began. Within 48 hours of the 6-3 decision limiting the law's power to protect minority voters, the Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee had called their legislatures...