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Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum
The action is expected to come Thursday.
10:11 AM Politico Top Stories Trump asks Supreme Court to let him enforce ban on transgender troops
He wants the high court to allow the ban to take effect while lawsuits challenging the ban proceed in the lower courts.
12:51 PM Politico Top Stories Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops
The move is another setback for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made culture war issues a major part of his role.
11:42 AM Politico Top Stories Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon
Joe Kasper will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee.
04:30 PM Politico Top Stories Pentagon leadership vacuum overwhelms Hegseth's office: 'It's a free-for-all'
The departure of the Defense secretary’s top advisers has left the first-time government official without senior staff who understand Washington.
05:59 PM Politico Top Stories Has Trump Forgotten His Own Power?
Does the president remember he’s already freed many people wrongfully detained overseas?
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories Trump admin must seek return of another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador, judge rules
A Trump-appointed judge ruled that the administration deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan man last month in violation of a legally binding, court-approved settlement agreement.
10:13 AM Politico Top Stories How Donald Trump Revealed Jeff Bezos True Self
Not long ago, Washington dreamed that Jeff Bezos would become the king of the Beltway. Then the rules changed.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Trump Organization is selling 2028 hats
A third term in the White House would violate the 22nd Amendment.
03:06 PM Politico Top Stories US names Michael Anton to lead technical talks with Iran
The Trump administration is staffing up its team as the president signals his strong desire for a deal.
09:00 AM Politico Top Stories Once all-powerful, pharmas allies in Washington are fleeting
The industry is struggling to find its voice as Trump and RFK Jr. rage against it.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Hounded by Wall Street, Trump tempers his populist rhetoric
The president has heard from all corners and appears to be listening. At least a little.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth
“The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,” John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece.
07:15 PM Politico Top Stories Opinion | Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details Month From Hell Inside the Agency
The total chaos at the Department of Defense is becoming a major distraction for the Trump administration, writes John Ullyot.
07:15 PM Politico Top Stories We Are US Citizens. My Children Are Still Terrified of Being Deported.
The Trump administration’s attacks on undocumented and legal immigrants alike are spreading fear and uncertainty.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany
The former vice president said the administration was "insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality."
12:16 AM Politico Top Stories How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation
The almighty algorithm is fueling conspiracy theories among young people and ruining their ability to tell fact from fiction on the internet.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Meet the 8 MAGA Outlets Disrupting the White House Briefing Room
The AP is on the outs, but these new MAGA media stars are on the rise.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress
Our third annual list of representatives and senators who just can’t get enough attention from us.
04:45 AM Politico Top Stories Opinion | The Iranian Negotiating Tactic the Trump Administration Doesnt Get
Sanctions and 'maximum pressure' have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories How Professional Wrestling Explains Donald Trump's Washington
Donald Trump has a deep connection with the world of professional wrestling. Look no further than this weekend's WrestleMania.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories DC Isnt Becoming a State. But It Could Become Maryland.
Washingtonians may be aghast at the thought of reconnecting with their northern neighbor, but some think it’s preferable to appeasing Trump.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories How Mark Zuckerberg is flipping the script on kids safety online
The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories Just chaos: How Trumps White House could swing the war on Big Tech
Google and Meta are both under breakup threat at once. Apple and Amazon’s trials are next. And through it all, Washington wonders — will Trump bail them all out?
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories Bonkers crazypants: American diplomats shaken by reports of possible cuts
A purported executive order calls for slashing State Department offices and bureaus and overhauling how diplomatic postings work.
11:28 AM Politico Top Stories JB Pritzker burnishes his national brand as one of Trumps fiercest critics
The two-term governor hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection next year, but is increasingly making high-profile appearances across the country.
12:01 PM Politico Top Stories We Didnt Even See the Border Until Now: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart
Trump’s punishing tariffs have big implications for the upcoming Canadian election. It’s affecting personal relationships between the two countries, too.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories A Prerequisite for Democrats to Come Back to Power
Longtime Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik has some advice for the party — including to embrace the populist economics of Bernie Sanders and AOC.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories This high school course is dividing districts across California
The fight over ethnic studies is creating a quiet headache for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
02:00 PM Politico Top Stories He was too conservative for the Republican Party. Now hes a leading candidate.
Bill Spadea, a leading contender to be governor of New Jersey, had a tumultuous conservative upbringing that put him at odds with fellow Republicans.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories Trump 'trying to change the subject' on deportee, Van Hollen says
Speaking in multiple interviews, Sen. Chris Van Hollen discussed the implications of the Abrego Garcia case.
11:22 AM Politico Top Stories Putin violated his own Easter truce hundreds of times, Zelenskyy says
The Ukrainian president reiterated offers for a month-long ceasefire.
07:49 AM Politico Top Stories World Bank climate message shifts amid Trump era uncertainty
The bank’s messaging on climate represents a delicate balancing act between the institution and the U.S., its largest shareholder.
10:00 AM 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 Politico Top Stories April 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
12:08 PM 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 Politico Top Stories Canada Discovers Uniting Against Trump Is the Easy Part
The fabric of Canada’s nationhood makes Mark Carney’s one people, one country message difficult to sustain.
07:29 PM Politico Top Stories Rubios firing of Marocco ignites a MAGA world meltdown
When Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Trumps Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isnt Pretty.
For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him?
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Supreme Court to hear arguments on Trumps bid to start implementing his plan to end birthright citizenship
The court will consider a technical issue with potentially momentous consequences: the authority of lower-court judges to issue broad injunctions that block a president’s policies nationwide.
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