As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.
State Representative Justin J. Pearson in Nashville in 2023. He announced on Wednesday that he would challenge U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Memphis Democrat.
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.
More than a dozen candidates are vying to represent the state’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville but was redrawn to favor Republicans.
More than a dozen candidates are vying to represent the state’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville but was redrawn to favor Republicans.
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party’s lawmakers in some of the most competitive House districts.
Representative Mike Lawler’s New York district could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if the Trump administration cuts certain energy projects.
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.
Speaker Mike Johnson has canceled votes for this week, and Senator John Thune, the majority leader, has given verbal shrugs to questions about negotiating with Democrats about how to end the shutdown.
The U.S. government is shut down. Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill, leading to the shutdown. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the Democrats did the smart thing by refusing to acquiesce to President Trump.
A blistering assault on economic elites, a moderate stance on cultural issues and a rejection of politics as usual. That’s how to remake the Democratic Party.
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