Politics & Elections

By Joe Davidson · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump will enter his second presidential term in January eager and ready to slashthefederal workforce. The potential consequences are massive. He will occupy the White House with the benefit of experience and, importantly, executive orders from his first stay at the ready for implementation. This time, […]

By Yasmeen Abutaleb · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Late on the afternoon of Nov. 13, about a week after Democrats were devastated by Vice President Kamala Harris’s election loss, President Joe Biden got on a phone callwith about 2,000 appointees across the federal government, hoping to ensure that the final weeks of his presidency did not […]

By Yasmeen Abutaleb · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Late on the afternoon of Nov. 13, about a week after Democrats were devastated by Vice President Kamala Harris’s election loss, President Joe Biden got on a phone callwith about 2,000 appointees across the federal government, hoping to ensure that the final weeks of his presidency did not […]

By Rachel Roubein, Dan Diamond · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Republican senators are poised to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the nation’s next health secretary. But in interviews this week, a half-dozen GOP lawmakers said they had questions or outright concerns about his selection, with several citing his vaccine skepticism, as they weighed whether […]

By Rachel Roubein, Dan Diamond · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Republican senators are poised to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the nation’s next health secretary. But in interviews this week, a half-dozen GOP lawmakers said they had questions or outright concerns about his selection, with several citing his vaccine skepticism, as they weighed whether […]

By Caroline O’Donovan, Lauren Kaori Gurley · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s SpaceX barrage the National Labor Relations Board with lawsuits and Trump allies consider firing its Democratic members. This week, Amazon, […]

By Caroline O’Donovan, Lauren Kaori Gurley · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s SpaceX barrage the National Labor Relations Board with lawsuits and Trump allies consider firing its Democratic members. This week, Amazon, […]

By Emily Davies, Lauren Lumpkin · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in buildings owned by the federal or D.C. governments – thrusting the nation’s progressive capital onto the front lines of a conservative culture […]

By Emily Davies, Lauren Lumpkin · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in buildings owned by the federal or D.C. governments – thrusting the nation’s progressive capital onto the front lines of a conservative culture […]

By Dan Balz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Senior officials with Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign say her defeat stemmed primarily from dissatisfaction among voters about the overall direction of the country and discontent over inflation and the economy, arguing that those headwinds proved too strong for Harris to overcome […]