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Steve Bannon on Elon Musks Big Breakup: Told You
Musk might have the money, the MAGA godfather says. But Trump has the movement.
06:57 PM on 06/14/2025 Politico Top Stories We Would Have Had Leverage: How Trump Botched the Trade War With China
A former U.S. ambassador to China on Trump’s trade war and how to really think about Xi Jinping.
10:00 AM on 06/14/2025 Politico Top Stories Whats Israels Endgame?
Israel’s true target may be much larger than Iran’s nuclear program.
12:27 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories MAGA Warned Trump on Iran. Now Hes In An Impossible Position.
The president ran on ending forever wars. But Israel’s Thursday night strike on Iran could force his hand.
10:56 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump embraces Israel after successful Iran attack
Iran retaliated on Friday with strikes toward Israel.
01:20 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories 'The White House should be worried': Oil prices soar after Israel's attack on Iran
No matter how the fighting unfolds, it promises to increase prices at the gasoline pump just as voters' natural gas and electricity bills are already set to rise.
01:35 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories The Last Time DC Had a Military Parade No One Raised a Ruckus. Whats Changed?
Military parades of yore celebrated a win. That’s why this one is so unusual and risky for Trump.
12:00 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Richard Grenell has talked with Trump as he weighs running for California governor
The Trump loyalist says in a POLITICO podcast that he is hoping to see former Vice President Kamala Harris run.
11:50 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories This Tiny MAGA Town Borders Canada. Theyre Ready to Say Good Riddance.
‘Tariffs temporarily are going to hurt us. But in the long run, will it wake some people up?’
05:55 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Recriminations erupt after Noem guards tackle Padilla
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers,” Padilla said.
02:33 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories The Senate GOPs hard-liners are suddenly sounding softer on the megabill
"Everybody is trying to help," said Sen. Ron Johnson, who savaged the legislation just weeks ago.
04:45 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Goldman Sachs CEO on the Big, Beautiful Bill, Trumps Tariffs and Economic Volatility
“There’s no question — the level of uncertainty rose,” says Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon.
05:00 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats reclaim the American flag
Ambitious Democrats are leaning on their credentials as veterans to draw a contrast with Republicans.
05:55 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories White House looks to freeze more agency funds and expand executive power
The latest move targets more than $30 billion in spending at EPA, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.
05:20 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Are Trumps tariffs making money? Watch this chart.
Our chart updates every weekday, giving important clues to how things are going.
10:47 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories The Polling on Elon Musk Is a Warning for Republicans
He’s a potentially dangerous man for Trump.
06:30 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Why Does Dr. Phil Keep Showing Up at ICE Raids?
The popular talk show host says he’s not very political. But he keeps showing up at very politicized events.
06:26 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories The chaos muppet California needed but too late
President Donald Trump is blaming electric vehicles for his acrimonious breakup with Elon Musk.
09:11 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Andrew Yang Is Ready to Team Up With Elon Musk
Will the push for a third party find a powerful new patron?
10:00 AM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories The Plastic Surgery Procedure Booming Among Washington Men
Chiseled jawlines are in everywhere, but in Washington, D.C., people have even more reasons to go under the knife (or at least the needle).
06:26 PM on 06/13/2025 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 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories They Want to Shut It All Down: Gay DC Reels From a Trump Decision
Thanks to a quirk of local rules that puts the federal government in charge of city parks, Dupont Circle has been fenced off just as people around the world come to DC for pride.
02:57 PM on 06/13/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump and Musk aides have spoken amid pause in hostilities
A behind-the-scenes look at what irked Trump the most.
07:34 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories American presidents have long used autopens. Just ask Trump.
The president has announced an investigation that includes his predecessor’s use of an autopen.
10:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Like Elon Musk, Russ Vought wants to break Washington. Unlike the billionaire, the budget guru might just succeed.
The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget actually knows how to use the government to dismantle it.
02:00 PM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Dont Be Fooled: The Musk-Trump Blowup Is Really About Immigration
The tech right and MAGA populists were always going to have a blowup thanks to their disagreement on whether immigration or the federal debt was central to Trump’s political movement.
10:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Ken Martin privately expressed doubt about ability to lead DNC, blaming David Hogg
Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in an internal meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO.
10:01 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Newsom blasts deployment of National Guard to LA as purposefully inflammatory
The federal government is deploying 2,000 soldiers amid unrest over immigration sweeps in Los Angeles.
09:00 PM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Texas Democrats see an opening as Paxton surges. But first they need a candidate.
Next year's Senate map leaves Democrats with few chances at flipping seats.
09:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The Moviemakers Breaking With Liberal Hollywood
Faith-based production companies insist they are not explicitly Republican. But they’re selling a vision of American culture to an audience that’s sick of liberal Hollywood.
07:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Rahm Emanuel wants to save the weak and woke Democratic Party brand
The longtime political operative on whether the Democratic party ‘needs more assholes’ and the fight against antisemitism.
12:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories 'Trump movement' turns on Cornyn, poll finds
An early May poll commissioned by the American Opportunity Alliance has the Texas incumbent down 17 points.
10:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump has universities in the bind the right has long wanted
Even as Ivy League schools, research institutions, and college trade associations try to resist Trump’s attacks in court, campus leaders are starting to accept they face only difficult choices.
03:50 PM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Grahams bone crushing Russia sanctions bill could freeze US trade with the worlds largest economies
The proposed 500 percent tariffs on countries that buy Russian energy could cut the U.S. off from major trade partners.
06:50 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The Murphy Meter: Where NJ's governor candidates could change policy positions
Here’s a visual guide to where the candidates stand on 12 key issues.
10:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
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 of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Cuba tried to improve its relations with the US by cooperating with Trump's deportation flights. It didn't work.
Cuba has taken five deportation flights since Trump took office, but the administration appears disinterested in improving relations with Havana.
06:40 PM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Pentagon to redraw command map to more closely align Greenland with the US
The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.
06:07 PM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM on 06/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Investors Are Sending a Warning to Congress. Will Washington Listen?
If lawmakers don’t absorb a gentle message from the bond markets, they may get an even more unpleasant one.
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