Republicans are under increasing political pressure to get bipartisan housing legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk in time to address voters’ dismay about affordability before the midterm elections. The bipartisan legislation in question is the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which cleared the Senate in March, but has been held up in the House […]

Support for $1 billion in new security upgrades at the White House is cratering among Republicans over President Donald Trump’s ballroom. Holdouts in both chambers span across the ideological spectrum, from centrists to fiscal hawks. Some are even demanding that the administration produce a more detailed accounting of how a portion of the federal funds […]

A veterans group that runs multimillion-dollar ad campaigns in support of Democratic candidates, typically retired service members, has been spending heavily on a nonmilitary Senate hopeful who is considered one of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) recruits to win several crucial races in the 2026 midterm elections. VoteVets, a political action committee that presents […]

HELSINKI, Finland — Finland joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization just over three years ago, expecting to walk into an efficient and well-funded defensive alliance capable of warding off their belligerent Russian neighbors. Finnish government leaders are not afraid to admit that they found NATO to be much more disorganized and underfunded than they hoped […]