Articles filed under Politics
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House GOP’s first 2026 priority: Trump’s changes to showerheadsJan 08, 2026 4:59 pm - House Republicans on Thursday are hoping to deliver a win for President Donald Trump’s agenda — or at least his hair — by voting to codify his long-desired showerhead changes into law, their first legislative priority of the new session.
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House passes bill extending health care subsidies, bucking GOP leadersJan 08, 2026 4:47 pm - More than a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat on Thursday to pass a bill to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years — the sharpest rejection by GOP members of the party’s leadership yet.
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Senate pushes back on Trump’s military threats against Venezuela with war powers voteJan 08, 2026 4:37 pm - WASHINGTON — The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of ...
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Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget sends military contractor shares higherJan 08, 2026 3:55 pm - President Donald Trump caused some commotion for investors in U.S. defense contractors this week. First, Trump criticized the companies for taking too long to produce military equipment and also failing to maintain it while at the same time paying out billions in dividends and stock buybacks to investors. But then the president proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027, a big jump from the $901 billion provisioned for 2026.
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Trump says he wants to ban large investors from buying houses. It’s part of his affordability planJan 07, 2026 3:56 pm - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.
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CDC staff ‘blindsided’ as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauledJan 07, 2026 3:37 pm - Vaccine experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were blindsided by a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to unilaterally overhaul the childhood immunization schedule, according to current and former agency staff.
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White House publishes website that rewrites history of Jan. 6 attackJan 06, 2026 10:50 pm - The White House published a website Tuesday with a false telling of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, underscoring President Donald Trump’s years-long effort to reshape the narrative surrounding the day when a mob of his supporters violently overran the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.
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Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from Illinois, 4 other states over fraud concernsJan 06, 2026 9:10 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states — including Illinois — over concerns about fraud.
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Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill banJan 06, 2026 4:50 pm - Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two laws barring the procedure, including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, violate the state constitution.
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Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policyJan 03, 2026 3:23 pm - A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.