Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
12:00 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Theres No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts.
I interviewed the vice president last year, and he didn’t mince words about wanting to provoke a constitutional crisis against the Supreme Court.
11:18 AM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump is slashing agencies long hated by the GOP. The next cuts might be harder.
“You gotta light things on fire that burn the brightest and have the most distinctive smell of waste, fraud and abuse,” said one White House ally.
04:45 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories The Shutdown Fight That Could Play Right Into Trumps Hands
There isn’t one neat trick to defeating Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s war on the federal government.
05:35 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Justice Department moves to drop charges against Eric Adams
The DOJ has directed Manhattan prosecutors to nix the five-count bribery case after months of overtures by the mayor.
07:14 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories JD gets the game: Vance embraces role as social media provocateur
Vance’s approach to social media isn’t new. But his perch in the presidential line of succession is.
06:00 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories JD Vance warns Europe to go easy on tech regulation in major AI speech
U.S. vice president pushes for “international regulatory regimes that foster creation” ahead of the artificial intelligence “revolution.”
06:21 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
“We have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,” U.S. president says.
06:20 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Deb Haaland, former Biden Interior secretary, launches New Mexico governor bid
Haaland is the first candidate to jump into the open 2026 race.
09:54 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge to Trump-terminated ethics watchdog: Youre un-fired
Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger won an order allowing him to remain in his job for now.
09:51 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Hamas must release remaining hostages by midday Saturday, Trump warns
“After that, I would say, all hell is going to break out,” he threatened.
08:12 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories DOGE announces $881 million in cuts for Education Department contracts
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
09:04 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Americans Can and Will Die from This: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
04:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump says hell impose 25 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum
“Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25 percent tariff — aluminum too,” Trump told reporters.
07:15 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Kristi Noem: Get rid of FEMA the way it exists today
The DHS secretary backed Trump’s proposal to shutter the disaster response agency.
11:01 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories What the Dems who boycotted the first Trump inauguration say this time
POLITICO asked the 2017 boycotters what their plans are this time. Their answers reveal a faded resistance movement.
07:00 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Tracking Trumps Cabinet picks
Here's who has a seat at the table
10:49 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The anti-Trump resistance roars back with California at the forefront
State Attorney General Rob Bonta has already prepared legal arguments against everything from a possible national abortion ban to Project 2025 targets.
12:01 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Gaza-ification of the West Bank
With a cease-fire holding in Gaza, Israel shifts its war to the West Bank.
02:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
It might take a mock battlefield to solve America’s political divisions.
04:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats Are Falling For Trump and Musk's Foreign Aid Trap
Three veteran strategists want their party to be more thoughtful about fighting Trump’s anti-bureaucracy campaign.
05:20 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
05:05 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration seeks urgent end of impermissible court order blocking access to Treasury systems
The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism.
07:34 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Senate gives Trump his Cabinet and their compliance
Unlike his first term, the president is getting little pushback from the chamber’s Republicans.
04:45 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Inside the House GOP clash over tax cuts
Hardliners are squaring off against their top tax writer as Republicans try to assemble a package President Donald Trump's priorities.
08:57 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories So dirty and rotten: Candidate for NJ governors fundraising tactic confuses some donors
Bill Spadea uses a fundraising strategy that’s come under scrutiny in recent years
10:00 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Hochul to Adams: Use it or lose it on migrant funding
New York City’s slow reimbursement requests have led state to halt funding in this year’s budget.
05:00 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump holds Manhattan toll plan's fate in his hands
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been discussing the future of the controversial toll program known as congestion pricing.
10:06 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories As Trump steamrolls Washington, courts flex their power to slow him down
Numerous federal district judges around the country have blocked major portions of Trump's early agenda — but Supreme Court showdowns loom.
07:00 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories The Real Significance of Trumps Tariffs
It represents another major effort to expand presidential authority.
10:00 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk says Treasury, DOGE instituting reporting changes to all government payments
The payments will include a new categorization code and a “rationale” for the money spent.
04:52 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories 'Floodgates have opened': Sports betting markets bet big on Trump era
The backlash sets the stage for what could be a bruising fight over whether national prediction markets should be allowed into the world of sports.
02:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Looking at Trump, Europes far right vows to 'reconquer' the continent
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tells a far-right rally in Madrid.
07:11 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories How Democrats lost the DEI war
Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.
02:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Shes in House GOP Leadership. Heres How She Responds to Trump Tweets.
Rep. Lisa McClain helps shape Republican messaging in the Trump era — and she’s eager to defend his “out-of-the-box thinking.”
04:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories We asked DeepSeek about geopolitics. It gave us Beijing talking points.
China’s AI revelation matches its censorship and propaganda playbook.
07:03 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories New York lawmakers moving to deny House GOP a key vote
A new proposal would allow New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to set a special election for later in the year.
10:04 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGEs crosshairs
Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.
07:00 AM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories 19 states sue Trump, Treasury to halt DOGE access
New York leads the suit in Manhattan federal court alleging highly sensitive data is at risk.
07:24 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge denies union demand to block DOGEs access to Labor Department data
District Judge John Bates said the groups lacked the necessary standing to win a temporary restraining order.
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