Budget Battles
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Blowout Job Growth Points to ‘Mother of All Soft Landings’
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Cost Estimates Soar for Hurricane Helene
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Feds Warn Emergency Funds Running Low as Biden Deploys Troops to Southeast
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Speaker Johnson Outlines 5-Point Republican Agenda for 2025
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Biden May Call Congress Back to Pass Hurricane Relief
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Harris Tries to Flip Trump’s Biggest Advantages
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US Economy Stronger Than Previously Thought
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Why Presidential Candidates ‘Suspend’ Their Campaigns but Don’t End Them
By Millie DentThe field of White House candidates keeps dwindling as one presidential hopeful after another pulls out of the race. Yet the candidates inevitably say they are “suspending” their campaigns, not...
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16 Tycoons Who Give the Most Campaign Cash
By Hunter Walker, Business InsiderWall Street donors are a massive source of cash for political candidates. Thanks to Crowdpac, a data firm dedicated to informing citizens about the political process , Business Insider has identified...
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Senate’s Promise to Work Fridays Is Broken by Thursday
By Rob GarverThe promise that the Senate under Republican control would work longer hours – and even Fridays – lasted exactly as long as it took for members to have to actually consider really working on Friday...
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GOP Sees Popularity Surge Ahead of Senate Takeover
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesThis year keeps getting better and better for the GOP. After a sweeping victory in the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are enjoying a surge of popularity as they stand poised to take control of...
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Two Incoming Senators, Two Different Approaches
By Rob GarverWhen the new Congress convenes in January, newly minted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to assert control of his Republican majority. On Sunday morning, two of his Senators-elect showed...
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Budget Breakdown at GOP: Who Will Lead the Committee?
By PAUL KANE, The Washington PostJeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) were elected to the Senate on the same day in 1996, but Enzi holds seniority over his longtime friend through a totally random feature of party rules:...
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The State of the American Electorate in 9 Numbers
By CHRIS CILLIZZA, The Washington PostThe best thing about elections — if you are a numbers nerd like me — is the massive amount of raw data about the American public and what they think, as well as the how and why of it. Yes, only about...
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Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt
By Eric PianinLargely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...
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Perry Might Have to Run for President While on Trial
By Eric PianinTough luck for Texas Gov. Rick Perry: While the rest of the likely GOP presidential candidates are hitting the campaign trail next year, Perry may be standing trial in Austin on government corruption...
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Obama’s ‘Nothing to Left to Lose’ Strategy: 3 Moves That Enrage the GOP
By Eric PianinBasking in the glow of the Republicans’ tidal wave election victory last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky raised the possibility that the GOP and President Obama could strike...
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Why the GOP Looks Like a Sure Bet to Take the Senate
By Eric PianinIn the latest sign Republicans may be wrapping things up in next Tuesday’s midterm election, University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato has gone out on a limb with a forecast entitled...
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Gun Battle Plays Out in Washington State Campaign
By Victoria Cavaliere, ReutersA ballot measure to tighten background checks for gun buyers in Washington state, which is reeling from a deadly school shooting last week, was drawing strong support ahead of a Nov. 4 vote, a poll...
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Would a GOP Congress Embrace or Replace Obamacare?
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesRepublicans have been eerily quiet about the president's health care law on the campaign trail lately. But that's likely to change if the GOP is victorious and wins control of the Senate next week...
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Democrats Just Lost the Phony War on Women
No one expected the Democrats to do well in the 2014 midterms. But no one expected to see them falling behind so significantly, either – especially among two of their core constituencies, women and...
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Why Millennials – Shocker! – Now Prefer a GOP Congress
By Rob GarverA new survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics finds that among Millennials expecting to vote in the midterm election this week, a majority of 51 percent would prefer to see Congress...