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Sen. John Fetterman publicly said “If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation” while urging Democrats to temper alarm after Donald Trump’s 2024 win; multiple outlets q...
Congressional votes that precipitated the 2025 government shutdown split sharply along party lines in both chambers, with a handful of Democrats breaking with their party in the Senate to advance fund...
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster on a continuing resolution in most cases (three-fifths of the full Senate) — often described as “60 votes” when the Senate i...
Scholars and commentators are deeply divided over whether Donald Trump meets historical or scholarly definitions of fascism; some argue he displays core fascist characteristics, while others call the ...
Two independent events from March 2025 are clear from contemporary reporting: during President Trump’s joint address to Congress a 13‑year‑old brain cancer survivor, Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, was publicl...
House Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the short-term continuing resolutions (CRs) put forward by Republicans, with multiple reports indicating , while a small number of Senate Democrats broke ranks t...
Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked a Republican "clean" continuing resolution to end the government shutdown, with a pivotal procedural vote on October 28, 2025, failing 54-45 and falling short of th...
Ending the Senate filibuster in 2025 would remove the 60-vote threshold for most legislation and give the majority party the power to enact its agenda by simple majority, a change that could dramatica...
Republicans in the Senate have moved to advance a House-passed, GOP-backed continuing resolution to reopen and fund the government , but each cloture or advancement attempt has failed to reach the 60-...
Comcast (owner of MSNBC/NBC), Warner Bros. Discovery (owner of CNN), and NBCUniversal/NBCUniversal Media appear in public campaign-finance summaries as corporate entities or affiliates that made in th...
Several moderate and swing-state Senate Democrats have publicly tied conditions to ending the 2025 government shutdown, but the landscape is fragmented: New Hampshire’s senators are explicit about dem...
US politicians have repeatedly invoked and language in public rhetoric, but recent reporting shows a mix of admonitions against casual labeling, direct accusations, and historical arguments about the ...
Several bipartisan packages and standalone bills in both chambers of Congress seek to create permanent‑residency paths or other reentry routes for deported veterans; principal sponsors include Sen. Ta...
The materials present two competing frames: one that identifies in Donald Trump’s rhetoric and movement, and another that argues he represents . Both sides rely on historical definitions of fascism, s...
The reporting shows a pattern: . Key Democratic leaders — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — framed the dispute around health-care tax credits, SNAP autho...
Two Democrats—Senators John Fetterman (Pa.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.)—and one independent who caucuses with Democrats, Angus King (Maine), crossed party lines to vote for a Republican-led “cle...
Mehmet (Dr.) Oz is a physician-turned-media figure who lost a 2022 Senate race and was later chosen by Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); multiple outlets repor...
Eight Senate Democrats broke with most of their party to back a bipartisan package that reopened the federal government, trading immediate funding through January 2026 and protections for federal work...
Eight senators who caucus with Democrats voted to advance a short‑term funding bill that enabled a deal to end the government shutdown; those senators included a mix of retirees, independents, and mem...
The reopening deal that moved through the Senate in 2025 passed with backing from a coalition that included , even as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell publicly opposed the measure. Reporting a...