President Donald Trump’s push to build a White House ballroom is getting a morbid boost. In the aftermath of the April 25 assassination attempt against Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, congressional lawmakers have begun offering their policy reaction. So far, it all points in one direction: building Trump’s ballroom. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members […]

In the long-running battle between congressional Republicans and the local government of Washington, D.C., GOP lawmakers have found a new target: the city’s ban on making a right turn when there’s a red light. The attempt to force the nation’s capital to allow such turns mirrors a traffic policy dispute that erupted a half-century ago. […]

The 2022 general railroad strike is widely regarded as a low point of national labor relations in recent memory. It was put down by an act of Congress to avoid massive supply chain disruptions at Christmastime. In contrast, the latest round of negotiations was all but over by the end of last year, and with […]

Amid months of concerns by California Democrats that their party’s gubernatorial candidates could get locked out of a chance to lead the nation’s dominant blue state, some leaders want to change a Golden State election rule that is making such an unlikely scenario possible. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), a major Democratic antagonist of President Donald […]