With help from Shawn Ness Both houses of the state Legislature approved their one-house budget proposals this afternoon, setting the stage for final talks with Gov. Kathy Hochul over the spending plan that’s due March 31. Today’s debates also gave Republicans a chance to formally weigh in on the plans the Democratic supermajorities released earlier […]
Donald Trump cemented his control of the Republican National Committee on Friday after members formally voted to install his handpicked candidates — including his daughter-in-law — in top roles at the party. Michael Whatley, chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, has been named the new chair of the RNC, replacing Ronna McDaniel, whom Trump […]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best […]
Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt focused her Thursday response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on family-focused issues, including one that’s been giving her party some heartburn as of late: in vitro fertilization. Following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last month that embryos created via IVF are people, Biden used his remarks […]
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President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year included a slew of promises and hints about what the president wanted to accomplish in the year ahead. So how did Biden live up to these promises? POLITICO dug through last year’s speech and assessed his progress on some of the major issues just before […]
With help from Shawn Ness In 2016, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw another stone in his tit-for-tat war with Mayor Bill de Blasio — he deployed hundreds of New York state troopers on de Blasio’s turf of New York City. De Blasio blasted Cuomo for it. Eight years later, with a very different mayor and governor […]
With help from Shawn Ness Both houses of the state Legislature are planning to introduce their one-house budget proposals next Monday then pass them sometime before they adjourn for the week on March 14. That will frame the debate around the $233 billion spending plan proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul as lawmakers ramp up talks […]
The State of the Union may be one of the most vastly overrated speeches in all of politics. But not this year. The address President Joe Biden is set to deliver on Thursday night will come as the president faces intensifying worries about his age and vitality and a host of confounding international crises and […]
BEAUMONT, Texas — Forget the anti-climactic finale of the presidential primary, the most revealing Super Tuesday campaigns are taking place in Texas — and none more than in this swamp-and-refinery filled corner of the state, where the House speaker is at risk of falling victim to Washington-style political tribalism. Speaker Dade Phelan, the scion of […]