Ballots are still being tallied in some slow-counting states three weeks after Election Day, but the size and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's victory are firming up in what analysts called a decisive, but not overwhelming, victory for the GOP.
The newly elected Republican Congress seems set to place Medicaid reform at the top of its legislative agenda. Previous reform attempts have stumbled due to fears that cuts would leave the poorest beneficiaries uninsured. But, rather than cutting payments for core services, Congress can best curb rising Medicaid costs by limiting high-spending states’ further expansions of […]
ONE MONTH AFTER CAMPAIGN’S FINAL CONVULSION, A MOMENT OF PEACE. It seems like years, but it was just one month ago that the media effort to stop President-elect Donald Trump reached its final, most desperate phase in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. The Atlantic published an article quoting two unnamed sources who said they […]
In one of the most surprising Cabinet appointments of his transition, President-elect Donald Trump announced last week that he intends to nominate Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to be secretary of labor. The announcement was significant for a few reasons, but especially because Chavez-DeRemer was the preferred choice of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of […]
LATROBE, Pennsylvania — The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities. Two hundred thirty years ago, William Findley, a Revolutionary […]
A campaign chair for Vice President Harris’s 2024 presidential bid said the notion that she dodged interviews during the campaign was “completely bull---t.” “I think back and think we should have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were [trying to] reach and — but we had a limited amount...
President-elect Trump's transition team has received briefings from the chief architect of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal under President Biden, a senior administration official said Tuesday. Amos Hochstein, Biden's lead negotiator on the ceasefire, led two briefings with Trump’s national security team on the tenants of the deal – which was announced on Tuesday – and...