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Democrats are considering a proposal to flip the script on the debt limit to block president Donald Trump's sweeping plan to remake the U.S. government and economy, according to a new report.

Republicans have for decades used the threat of a national default to force Democrats to cave on their agenda, but the Washington Post reported that some liberal lawmakers are pushing to weaponize upcoming negotiations on the debt ceiling in what the newspaper calls a "stark role reversal."

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) has a blunt message for President Donald Trump's border czar.

The one-time Tea Party lawmaker, who became an outspoken anti-MAGA voice after Trump's first election, reacted on X to a publicity stunt border security adviser Tom Homan pulled with celebrity psychologist and talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw. The pair filmed themselves cornering a Thai national detained in Chicago by authorities over an alleged history of sex crime charges.

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won reelection by 19 percent in 2022, many of his cheerleaders were confident he would be the next president of the United States.

But DeSantis' 2024 presidential campaign was a disappointment, and he ended up dropping out of the race and giving GOP frontrunner Donald Trump a lukewarm endorsement.

President Donald Trump owes his re-election in part to some gains among working-class Latino voters who rolled the dice on a change in economic policy — but that change is likely to hit them worse than anyone else, wrote former Congressional Hispanic Caucus communications strategist Kristian Ramos for Salon.

The fact is, he wrote, Trump's policies will actually worsen everything that has been squeezing these voters — something he appeared wholly unconcerned with even on the campaign trail.

In his first week in office, President Donald Trump pardoned violent criminals and fired independent government watchdogs, but did little to lower the price of groceries.

Democratic strategist Christine Quinn warned on CNN that this could be a big problem for Trump, as voters have regularly said that lowering grocery prices should be his top priority.

A “chasm” is already opening up between President Donald Trump and a “closely divided Congress,” the New York Times reported Monday.

Some Republican members of Congress are already balking over many of his policies, and it’s threatening the loyalty that Trump insists on from members of his party, according to the report.

The first week of Donald Trump's second presidency played out without the palace intrigue that disrupted the start of his first term — but a report claimed there's discontent brewing among his staffers and allies.

Billionaires have been parading through the Oval Office to meet with the newly inaugurated president, but tech mogul Elon Musk remains a dominant force in the White House from which he claims to be working, although Trump has denied that he has an office there.

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to try people captured in the “war on terror.” Now all the problems at Guantánamo are again President Donald Trump’s.

When Biden took office in 2021, there were 40 prisoners. Today there are 15, the lowest number since the first 20 Muslim men and boys captured in Afghanistan were airlifted to the base on Jan. 11, 2002.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is warning that President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan is already going off the rails and will "spiral out of control" in the near future.

Writing on his Substack page, Krugman looks at how Trump's initial moves on immigration have already created chaos at farms in California where workers have stopped showing up out of fear of being deported.

President Donald Trump gloated late Sunday over his perceived victory in a clash with Colombia’s president, sharing a social media post that claimed the spat had caused the South American leader to “lose his mind.”

The post came after a day-long argument over the repatriation of immigrants Trump wants to deport from the U.S.

by Peter HUTCHISON

Britain's Labour government hopes to stay in U.S. President Donald Trump's good books by mobilising the royal family and a former spin doctor dubbed the "Prince of Darkness".

Republicans in Congress are still trying to hash out how they'll pass President Donald Trump's ambitious agenda and Politico reports that the party is "already running behind."

The GOP is meeting at Trump's resort in Doral, Florida this week to nail down what will be included in a massive budget reconciliation package that will likely include extending tax cuts passed in 2017, as well as potentially taking a hatchet to programs such as Medicaid that deliver health insurance to low-income Americans.