Senate passes debt limit deal
The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.
By Josh Israel - June 02, 2023Politics
No other U.S. president has presided over greater job growth in a single term.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2023The Committee to Protect Health Care hopes its billboard will make people think about how Florida's restrictive abortion law could impact their health care.
By Rebekah Sager - June 02, 2023Republican lawmakers continue to ignore Biden administration policy successes at the border and insist there is an ongoing crisis.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2023Nearly the entire House and Senate Republican caucuses oppose equal rights. These 17 lawmakers take bigotry to an even higher level.
By Will Fritz and Josh Israel - June 02, 2023The bill now moves to the Senate, where speedy action will be required before a potential U.S. default.
By Josh Israel - June 01, 2023The House speaker said President Biden 'walled off' potential cuts to the programs during debt ceiling negotiations.
By Emily Singer - June 01, 2023Republican former Rep. Mark Walker complained about efforts to defund the police, but didn't vote for laws that included funding for state and local public safety.
By Josh Israel - June 01, 2023A default by the U.S. government on its debts could affect 6 million jobs and trigger global economic chaos, but President Joe Biden has struck a compromise with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to prevent that.
By Oliver Willis - May 31, 2023'Twenty years ago, when I started in politics, obviously, our community was being used as a punching bag to juice Republican turnout,' the End Citizens United president recalled, 'And we're seeing that history repeat itself right now.'
By Will Fritz - May 31, 2023The South Carolina Republican called for lower drug costs during his 2024 presidential campaign kickoff, but he has consistently opposed Senate efforts to lower drug prices.
By Josh Israel - May 31, 2023Secretive right-wing donors and foundations have given millions of dollars to prominent anti-trans groups.
By Nick Vachon and Matt Cohen - May 31, 2023The Florida Republican voted to suspend the debt ceiling and boost federal spending in 2018 under President Donald Trump.
By Emily Singer - May 30, 2023Rep. Mike Levin says Republicans have been holding the economy hostage in order to slash vital programs.
By TAI Contributor - May 30, 2023Emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times in 2021 showed that DeSantis’ office was in frequent communication with Fox News.
By Oliver Willis - May 30, 2023President Joe Biden condemned 'the venom and violence of antisemitism,' a stark contrast to leading GOP figures who have increasingly embraced antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories in recent years.
By Oliver Willis - May 26, 2023After repeatedly voting against border security funding, Republicans are pushing debt ceiling legislation that would likely slash existing funding by 22%.
By Josh Israel - May 25, 2023The House has passed a resolution that would cancel President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan.
By Emily Singer - May 25, 2023But so far zero have joined the Democrats' effort to make that happen.
By Josh Israel - May 25, 2023Legislation restricting transgender people's access to health care, school sports, and bathrooms has surged in Republican-controlled states, backed by major anti-LGBTQ groups.
By Nick Vachon - May 25, 2023The Republican caucus says Democrats must meet all their demands before they'll agree to raise the debt ceiling.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2023There could be more Black women elected to the Senate in one year than have served in the entire history of the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 23, 2023The GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act would slash federal spending by 22% with no exceptions for veterans' programs.
By Josh Israel - May 23, 2023The California Republican blamed Democrats for two bills he helped pass as House majority leader.
By Josh Israel - May 23, 2023Republicans are pushing for spending cuts and have rejected Biden's proposed tax increases for the ultrawealthy that would reduce the federal deficit.
By Oliver Willis - May 23, 2023Bernie Moreno will fight 'woke corporations waging war against our conservative values,' Vance said.
By Josh Israel - May 22, 2023Conservatives in the one-house Nebraska Legislature announced early this month that they would amend the trans health bill to squeeze in the abortion restrictions, combining the two most contentious measures of the session.
By Associated Press - May 20, 2023The bill would let state funds be used to pay for health insurance plans that cover state workers and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions.
By Associated Press - May 19, 2023Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced a bill that would gut the 2022 bipartisan gun safety compromise law and other modest steps to curb gun violence.
By Josh Israel - May 19, 2023A federal grand jury indicted Santos on 13 criminal charges on May 10.
By Josh Israel - May 18, 2023Health care providers will have to stop offering any ‘transition’-related care to anyone under 18 if Gov. Greg Abbott signs the bill.
By Will Fritz - May 18, 2023