Republicans
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Fund ICE for Three Years. Also Build the Ballroom.
Senate Republicans returned from recess to pass a $72 billion immigration enforcement package. Trump wants $1 billion in the same bill for White House ballroom security. Vulnerable Republicans have to vote on both.
Moderate Republicans Block Medicaid Cuts, for Now
Vulnerable GOP senators blocked the third reconciliation bill over Medicaid fear, but the cuts already signed into law via H.R. 1 are hitting millions of Americans right now.
Republicans Just Introduced a National Abortion Ban Labeled Something Else
Rep. Kat Cammack's Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act criminalizes the most common second-trimester procedure. Call it what it is: a national 12-week ban written to sound procedural.
Trump Killed $35 Billion in Wind Projects. Republican Districts Lost Twice as Much as Democratic Ones.
Nine House Republicans are publicly breaking with Trump on offshore wind. Courts have temporarily stopped the cancellations. Virginia's redistricting just made the political math worse for the party.
Virginia Voters Approved a Gerrymander. Both Parties Cheered for Democracy While Doing It.
Virginia's redistricting vote passed 51-49 and could flip 4 House seats to Democrats. It also could be nullified by the state Supreme Court within weeks. The national gerrymandering arms race is nearly over, and nobody won.
Virginia Voters Decide Today Whether Democrats Can Gerrymander Back
Nearly $100 million spent on a ballot measure that bypasses Virginia's own bipartisan commission. The redistricting wars Trump started now require Democrats to become what they said they were against.
Ten Republicans Voted Against Trump on Immigration. It Will Not Matter.
The House passed a bill protecting Haitian immigrants. The Senate will kill it. Trump will veto anything that survives. The vote was not for policy; it was for the record.
Regulate the Machine or Regulate the Person
Both parties want to regulate AI but disagree on the target: Republicans want to control how the technology is built; Democrats want to control how individuals misuse it. The difference is not semantic.
The MAGA Stronghold Held. But a Democrat Got 42% in Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Seat.
Clay Fuller won Georgia's 14th district special election, but the margin collapsed from a 29-point blowout to 15 points. Republicans are calling it a spending anomaly. Democrats are calling it a bellwether.