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Republicans Have No Clue How They’re Going to Pass Trump’s …
1 day ago · Whatever ends up being the final approach, it’s going to divide Republicans in one or both of the chambers. Historically, the one-bill strategy hasn’t worked well for either party, as Democrats who backed the “Build Back Better” bill under Biden remember. That bill was supposed to pass in 2021, but ended up being weakened, only passing in the form of the scaled-down Inflation Reduction ...
It’s a Weird Time to Be a Libertarian | The New Republic
1 day ago · So what, then, are they to make of a president-elect who vows to lower corporate tax rates yet threatens to raise tariffs, will seek to abolish vaccine mandates while imposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal dietary beliefs on food producers, and will reduce the government’s regulation of the economy while jeopardizing free speech?. …
Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs | The New Republic
1 day ago · But that favorable response quickly reversed after Trump stated on Truth Social that the Post story “incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be pared back. That is wrong.” For good measure, Trump labelled the story, by the Post ’s excellent Jeff Stein, “Fake News.” This well-worn phrase is, typically, Trump’s “tell” that a news story that irritates him is quite accurate ...
John Roberts Is Imagining Things | The New Republic
4 days ago · This year’s theme was judicial independence and the peril it faces. Roberts’s choice of topic is timely. Public approval of the Supreme Court has declined precipitously since he joined it two decades ago this year, with fewer than half of Americans expressing support in a Pew Research Center survey last year. An alarming Gallup survey from December found that only 35 percent of Americans ...
How Renegade Juries Could Help Thwart Trumpian Misrule
5 days ago · With some calling Luigi Mangione a folk hero for the alleged killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the concept of jury nullification—which has a long history of use in the U.S. as a means of popular resistance to unpopular laws and unjust prosecutions—has been dragged back into the spotlight.But even as the pundit class frets about this jury power being used to free someone ...
The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
Dec 30, 2024 · The fight pitted the anti-immigrant wing of Trump’s coalition against the people President Theodore Roosevelt famously labelled malefactors of great wealth.Stripped of its racially toxic content, it was a dispute over whether the United States should grant more visas to high-skilled foreign guest workers.
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening | The New Republic
6 days ago · Consider these archetypal dispatches from the 2024 campaign trail. “A lot of people are happy to vote for [Trump] because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will,” an October New York Times “campaign notebook” entry observed.The following week, The Washington Post noted of prospective Trump voters: “Some read between Trump’s lines about how he would ...
Trump Loyalists Still Waiting for Job Offers | The New Republic
4 days ago · Those who worked tirelessly for President-elect Trump during campaign season may not get the coveted administration jobs they were promised, according to reporting from NOTUS.The lower level roles that Trump has yet to fill were apparently supposed to go to the bureaucrats of Project 2025. But Trump’s strategic separation from the Project put the future jobs of many of those bureaucrats in ...
House Members Clap for Joy at Matt Gaetz’s Absence
4 days ago · Gaetz was reelected for another two-year term in November. He then resigned his seat, however, when Donald Trump announced him as pick for attorney general, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation that found that Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted ...