Can Democrats Win The Senate By Adding States? It’s Been Done Before FiveThirtyEight It’s been 60 years since a new state entered the union, but now Democrats and liberals are accelerating efforts to gain statehood for Washington, D.C., and … “us democrats” – Google News
Read More...US tariffs looming, many in Mexico back president’s approach Fox Business Facing possible crippling tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose on the United States’ biggest trading partner, Mexican President Andrés … “us president” – Google News
Read More...Why Longer Lives Mean the Future of US Politics Is Female OZY Women live longer than men. And in the realm of politics, simply sticking around has an advantage, as seniority often dictates power — particularly in Congress and state legislatures. But that hasn’t helped women traditionally. Until now. For decades, men have more often gotten elected at a younger age, whereas women either struggled to win races or didn’t choose to join politics until after raising children. Take Nancy Pelosi, perhaps the most sustainably powerful female American politician in history,…
Read More...U.S. Congress passes $ 19.1 billion disaster aid bill, sends to Trump Reuters The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation providing $ 19.1 billion in emergency funding for disaster recovery efforts throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Final passage came as the Democratic-led House of Representatives voted 354-58 for the measure, which lawmakers and Trump had haggled over for months. It was approved by the Republican-led Senate late last month, and Trump has said he supports it. The president, who…
Read More...Trump defied the laws of politics. Now he’s trying to break the laws of economic gravity. CNN President Donald Trump came to office breaking the laws of US politics, knocking over Democrats’ blue wall in the Rust Belt and remaking the GOP in his own nationalist image. He basically spent 2016 saying there was a different political reality than the one politicians and most voters knew, and it turned out he had a point. There’s a similar alternate reality emerging where it comes to the President’s use of tariffs, first against…
Read More...U.S. judge denies Democrats’ lawsuit to stop border wall funds Reuters A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit by Democrats in the House of Representatives that sought to block President Donald Trump’s plan to divert … “us democrats” – Google News
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