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Trump with no guard rails: Civilization will die post shows his growing power over social media
"In his first term, I think people would have been a lot more worked up about whether or not a post like this should or should not stay up," former Facebook official Katie Harbath said.
06:07 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Congress is absent as Trump threatens Iranians will die
Democrats erupt in protest, but Republicans make their peace with “negotiating Trump style.”
03:38 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed declines to disavow Hasan Pikers past comments
Piker has been accused by Democrats and Republicans of making antisemitic and pro-terrorist comments.
08:15 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Loomer, Fox and 'a RINO': Inside Trump's earthquake endorsement in California
MAGA allies had long been laying the groundwork for Trump’s endorsement of Steve Hilton in California’s gubernatorial race.
09:04 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Jim Jordans dream might not be deferred much longer
The Ohio Republican will be well-situated if Republicans lose the House majority.
04:45 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories IRS staffing shortage collides with GOP's tax cut campaign pitch
A government watchdog draft report seen by POLITICO says the agency has been slow to bring on new workers to handle taxpayer requests.
06:00 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Pentagons new plans in Iran give Trump a way out of war crime accusations
Defense officials are expanding a list of strike options.
06:45 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Vance is on standby in Iran talks
The negotiations are led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner but Vance could be tagged in if there is a direct meeting with Iranian officials.
05:03 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump: I cant tell you whether war is winding down or escalating
A day ahead of the president’s latest deadline for Iran, the president praised the successful recovery of two U.S. airmen from inside Iran.
03:00 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Poll: Heres what MAHA actually believes
A new POLITICO Poll finds that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy again supporters don’t align with him — or each other — on some key issues.
05:00 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories The woman who thinks civil rights went too far
Harmeet Dhillon has spent a year trying to turn the Justice Department in the opposite direction. Now the online right wants to see her as attorney general.
05:55 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump promised a post-war economic rebound. The damage may linger far longer.
The war’s damage to energy infrastructure and closure of a key shipping lane could mean lasting price spikes for everything from housing to food even long after the fighting ends.
05:55 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Republican super PAC's multi-hundred-million dollar ad buy shows a Senate GOP on defense
Republicans are targeting eight battleground states in a bid to protect its majority.
01:01 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories 'Walking on eggshells: How Trump is managing his delicate China truce
What President Donald Trump wants most out of his next visit to China isn’t a fight.
10:00 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories CIA deception campaign bought time for rescue of downed airman
The downing of a U.S. fighter jet over Iranian airspace Friday set off a scramble to rescue an American airman inside hostile territory.
04:13 PM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump again threatens to hit Iranian civil infrastructure
He warned in a profane and jarring post: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one.”
09:04 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Proactively fall in line: Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office
Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.
11:50 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories How the GOPs fraud crackdown could impact the midterms
While many Republicans approve of tackling fraud, the Trump administration’s recent efforts may not be enough to overcome concerns about higher costs.
04:00 PM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories 2 Republican election officials say Trumps mail-in voting order will be overturned
The officials said they are confident litigation challenging the executive order will succeed.
11:48 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Florida communities with highest climate change risk face new Tallahassee hurdles
A bill that passed Florida’s Legislature would prevent local governments from capping greenhouse gas emissions.
02:00 PM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Politicians are debuting holograms at airports. Its either innovation or the height of inauthenticity.
From Jacksonville to San Francisco and Las Vegas, holograms are starting to make inroads in American politics.
12:00 PM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories This Democratic governor is touting her role in the Iran war
Arizona is facing deep cuts to the water supply that feeds its desert economy. Gov. Katie Hobbs is banking on President Donald Trump to blunt them.
07:00 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps UN fight is becoming New York Citys problem
An office space deal threatens to leave the city on the hook for the U.N.’s financial travails.
12:01 PM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump
That report gives the president some useful talking points as polling shows deep dissatisfaction with the state of the economy.
09:58 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump stretches America First on Iran. His voters are going along with it.
Still, his hold could grow more tenuous if the number of U.S. casualties rises and the war stretches into the summer.
05:00 AM on 04/06/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump admins challenge of Watergate-era records law alarms historians
Scholars warn that DOJ’s declaration that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional could impact other administrations.
07:56 PM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories The White House has a war-funding sales pitch the GOP might not buy
The president’s fiscal 2027 budget request calls for Republicans to use a partisan process for enacting billions for the Pentagon.
09:08 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Bad idea: Party-line plan for ICE funding has some fearing a slippery slope
A Trump-blessed plan would use the budget reconciliation process to deliver yearly agency funding without a bipartisan agreement.
04:45 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump plans spending $377M on executive residence renovations and wants $174M more
The fiscal 2027 budget shows an 866 percent funding request jump for renovations to the White House living space and possibly other areas.
06:26 PM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, towards conception
New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027.
05:04 PM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories How a House win in Nebraska could cost Democrats the presidency
The frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in Nebraska’s 2nd District would have to give up his state senate seat, increasing the risk of a Republican supermajority.
04:55 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps partisan AI pitch stalls on the Hill
The White House’s latest effort to block state AI rules faces rising skepticism from key Democrats, undercutting chances for a national AI law this Congress.
02:59 PM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps Online Brawler Is Trying to Keep MAGA Cool
Alex Bruesewitz went from volunteer online hatchet man for Donald Trump to his lead impresario. What will he do if pop culture decides MAGA is no longer cool?
05:55 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories The Trump administration wants banks back in the mortgage business. Banks have other ideas.
Regulators hope getting banks to lend more to homebuyers will unlock more lending and give more insight into brewing risks. Analysts are skeptical.
04:55 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories One pilot rescued after fighter jet crash in Iran
The second crew member’s fate is unknown.
11:29 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump wants the world to buy more US oil. He might regret it.
President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to export more oil to make up for Iran war-induced supply crunches.
10:00 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump and the Myth of American Oil Independence
The president says the U.S. can walk away from the Strait of Hormuz. The global market says otherwise.
09:49 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Democratic House challenger in Arizona pulls in $2.3M quarterly haul
JoAnna Mendoza, a Democrat challenging Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), is running in a toss-up district along the U.S.-Mexico border.
05:45 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories Todds sort of lead horse: Trumps former criminal defense lawyer ascends DOJ
Todd Blanche will be the first acting attorney general in modern history to have been the president’s personal criminal defense lawyer.
05:00 AM on 04/04/2026 Politico Top Stories April
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
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