President Donald Trump‘s tariffs on Canadian imports are having a major impact on the country’s politics, but likely not one the president or his aides intended. Canada’s Liberal Party, buoyed by Trump’s escalating trade war and jibes about making the country the 51st state, has rapidly closed the significant lead held by Conservatives and Leader […]
The national average for a gallon of regular gas dropped on Friday, falling to $3.106, according to AAA. It marks the latest decrease at the pumps after consumers experienced several weeks of increases in February. Additionally, the latest pricing means fuel costs are comparatively lower than last week, last month, and last year. A week […]
In an early 1940s scene from The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, the first book of Robert Caro’s four-volume (so far) biography about the late president, the then-House member vents frustration early at the chamber’s strict seniority system. The stodgy tradition, after all, allowed committee chairmen, usually southern Democratic (and segregationist) House […]
As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency dominate headlines, Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned the billionaire entrepreneur is providing political cover for President Donald Trump. Musk and DOGE are undertaking unprecedented reforms to the federal government in an unorthodox, haphazard manner, drastically changing departments and agencies from the U.S. Agency for International Development […]
Republicans on the House tax-writing committee are pushing forward with plans for a massive tax legislative bill and will be meeting to discuss preferences next week. The House Ways and Means Committee will meet on Monday and Wednesday to plan policy objectives related to extending expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, […]
A president usually gives their inaugural address time to sink in and saves the State of the Union address for the following year, when they are constitutionally obliged to make some report to Congress. President Donald Trump went a different way with his March 4 address, which was billed as a joint address to Congress. […]
The Oval Office is an intimidating place. More than once, I heard President George W. Bush talk about people waiting in the West Wing reception area who he knew were gnashing their teeth and waiting to give him a piece of their mind. But once they were ushered into the Oval Office, he said, they […]
Apart from a longtime cozy relationship with law enforcement unions, dialogue between the Republican Party and labor unions has been practically nonexistent. So it was to the surprise of both parties that then-candidate Donald Trump not only met with Sean O’Brien, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, but gave him a speaking […]
When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era that began with Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815 and ended with the onset of World War I in 1914. That was a century […]
President Donald Trump has made it clear he believes the war in Ukraine has devolved into a bloody meatgrinder, where neither side will reap anything but further death and destruction from continued fighting. “It’s time to stop this madness,” Trump said in his address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s time to halt the […]
