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Mike Waltz Fell Into an Age-Old Trap in Political History
Executive-branch positions offer former elected officials power — at a price.
12:00 PM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump Should Look to An Unlikely Predecessor If He Wants Peace in the Middle East
Jimmy Carter pulled off the kind of peace agreement that Trump dreams about.
10:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories House Republicans Need Their Closer. Good Thing Hes Back.
After a five-day, eight-time-zone hiatus from Capitol Hill drama, Trump has to salvage his sputtering megabill.
07:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Biden, Fetterman and Why Staffers Might Start Breaking Their Silence
The old incentives that kept Capitol Hill careerists quiet are going away.
10:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories A Moral, Ethical, Legal, Constitutional Travesty
As the Supreme Court considers a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship, two legal scholars debate whether lower court judges should be able to stop him.
05:55 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Weve Got a F--king Spy in This Place: Inside Americas Greatest Espionage Mystery
Two former top spy hunters offer exclusive new revelations about their quest to solve America’s greatest espionage mystery and what’s at stake with Kash Patel in charge of the FBI.
05:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Don't f--k around with Medicaid: Trump moves to steamroll megabill opposition
The president flexed his political muscle on Capitol Hill. But not all House Republicans are ready to submit.
10:19 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk to step back from political spending: I think Ive done enough
“If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I don't currently see a reason,” he said.
10:35 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump to announce $25B funding for Golden Dome project
The price tag matches the amount in the president’s “big, beautiful bill” that lawmakers have yet to approve.
01:22 PM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Virginia Republicans worry about their gubernatorial candidate who invoked slavery when criticizing DEI
Winsome Earle-Sears has had a sluggish start to her campaign. Republicans are urging her to turn it around — or face a bloodbath this fall.
05:55 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | All the President's Enablers
Three books on Joe Biden’s presidency jointly paint a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides and grasping family members.
05:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver faces felony assault charge in conflict at ICE facility, court filing shows
The complaint was presented to a U.S. magistrate judge shortly before New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, announced the charge.
11:14 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Gavin Newsom could write the ending to the Menendez brothers' saga
The California Democrat makes the final decision if the parole board recommends their release following the infamous, decades-old murder case.
09:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Ex-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enters Georgia governor race in test for Dems
She would be first Black governor, and first Democrat to win the post in a generation.
06:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories How Congress could crush Trump's Qatari plane gift
Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
04:45 AM on 05/20/2025 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 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories May 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
03:37 PM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories A federal agency goes full Trumpist
For years, the FCC's Brendan Carr was a low-key conservative policy player. Now he’s using an entire agency to wage Trump’s battles.
10:00 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Pence: 'I've never been a fan of American presidents criticizing America on foreign soil'
The former vice president called Trump’s recent remarks a “disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform.”
01:23 PM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories No Way to Run a Two-Car Parade Let Alone the House
Coastal Republicans express anger at red-state leaders who won’t help them with SALT deductions.
04:55 AM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Does It Matter If the Pope Is Black?
I have Creole roots just like the new pope. Will Leo embrace that heritage?
04:00 PM on 05/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Commerce not chaos': Trump remakes the foreign trip
The president offered a brash new brand of mercantilism in the Middle East.
04:00 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The new law firms being founded to fight Trump
In the last two weeks, at least three new law firms have been formed to represent clients who have been targeted by the administration.
04:19 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Its Outrageous That You Banned American Products From Your Shelves
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra opens up about U.S.-Canada tensions and the signals he hopes to see from new Prime Minister Mark Carney.
02:00 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The Rise and Rise of the Impeachment Resolution
The vast escalation of impeachment efforts in recent years has rendered this once-rare constitutional remedy into a political gimmick.
03:00 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Audio emerges of Joe Bidens damaging interview with Robert Hur
The former president had asserted executive privilege over a recording sought by Republicans.
06:08 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration acknowledges another error in a high-profile deportation
In a late Friday court filing, immigration officials said a claim by a Guatemalan man — a key plank of the government’s response in a class action lawsuit — was based on erroneous information.
10:38 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court extends block on Trumps deportation bid under Alien Enemies Act
The justices faulted the administration for its attempt last month to carry out swift deportations just one day after providing a bare-bones deportation notice to the detainees.
04:38 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge scolds Trump officials for continued recalcitrance in Abrego Garcia case
“You haven’t complied,” Judge Paula Xinis told Justice Department lawyers.
06:42 PM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories House budget panel rejects GOP megabill amid conservative opposition
Top Republicans are negotiating changes with irate conservatives as they aim for passage next week.
11:21 AM on 05/17/2025 Politico Top Stories White House considers plan B as DOGE cuts hit a wall on the Hill
The Republican Senate has been skeptical of codifying DOGE’s massive cuts.
04:50 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories GOP leaders draw the line at Trump's Library of Congress takeover
Quiet resistance from top Republicans has kept Trump officials out — for now.
02:00 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories First time we were hearing of them: The GOP megabill is packed with surprises for some Republicans
Senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee were caught off guard by Medicaid provisions in their own bill.
05:15 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Dems maintain theyre 'looking forward' as questions about Biden loom
The fresh questions about the former president come just as the party seems to be coalescing on a message around the GOP's megabill.
05:18 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Trip Lays Bare a Stark Advantage Some Arab States Have Over Israel
The dynamics are shifting in the Middle East under a U.S. president who sees the world through a financial lens.
01:30 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Senate Armed Services leader pans Trumps Qatar jet plan
“It would be like the United States moving into the Qatari embassy,” Sen. Roger Wicker said.
02:20 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Boeing signs deal in Doha against backdrop of Air Force One delays, Qatars luxury jet gift
The Qatari luxury Boeing 747 did not come up during brief remarks celebrating the separate deal between Boeing and Qatar Airways.
11:37 AM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Duffy defends moving wife's flight from Newark to another airport
Transportation Sean Duffy said his remarks on a recent SiriusXM show were taken out of context, and that he moved his wife's flight because of delays, not safety.
03:33 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats raise alarms as National Weather Service races to fill jobs ahead of hurricane season
Internal documents reviewed by POLITICO revealed a range of open positions, from a lead meteorologist role in Fairbanks, Alaska, to meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS office in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
04:39 PM on 05/15/2025 Politico Top Stories No one knows whos in charge of Trumps dramatic space policy
Space industry officials and Hill staff say there’s no one driving the massive policy shifts.
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