November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM EST
Republicans scuttled Trump health care fix because they felt 'left out': report

President Donald Trump was set to announce a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, as soon as Monday, to help fix Obamacare premiums that are set to skyrocket, but the White House pulled the announcement and delayed its plans in part because House Republicans reportedly felt "left out." The Trump White House is now delaying announcing any health care plan -- it "will not be this week," reported PBS Newshour's Lisa Desjardins.

November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM EST
Republican senator warns MAGA is 'splintering and fracturing' over this Trump policy

President Donald Trump and his Department of Defense appear increasingly likely to launch military action on the ground in Venezuela, but one Republican senator is warning that such a move could fracture the president's supporters. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican once known for his staunch support of Trump, appeared on CBS News's Face the Nation Sunday where he was pressed about the possibility of a larger-scale military conflict in Venezuela. Paul said that this, along with the possibility of renewing military aid payments to Ukraine, could cause a major divide among the Republican Party and Trump's MAGA supporters.

November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM EST
Trump's former chief strategist now warns his agenda will 'crush the working class'

Steve Bannon -- who was President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist in 2017 -- is now railing against one of the president's top policy priorities. ABC News reported Monday that Bannon took time on his podcast to harshly criticize the administration's pledge to pour billions of dollars into powering artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States. Bannon called AI "the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind" and warned Trump's promise to accelerate it would have disastrous effects on workers.

November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM EST
'Not an accident': Trump kept his own CIA director 'out of the loop' on Russian peace deal

President Donald Trump's administration appears to have excluded top intelligence officials from sensitive negotiations with a major adversary -- even CIA Director John Ratcliffe. That's according to journalist Michael Weiss, who reported Monday that Ratcliffe was "not privy" to the Russian peace deal that Trump administration special envoy Steve Witkoff has been negotiating with Vladimir Putin's government. Weiss cited an unnamed "U.S. intelligence source" who confided: "It was not an accident CIA was kept out of the loop on an American deal with a Russian operative."

November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM EST
Republicans only have themselves to blame as Trump's 'inept' administration runs amok

Political prospects for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party overall are starting to fall apart, and according to a new analysis from MS NOW, they have no one to blame but themselves due to a series of "embarrassing" fumbles. The piece -- hailing from progressive pundit and longtime Rachel Maddow producer, Steve Benen -- primarily cites Trump's plan to push for an unusual slate of redistricting efforts in red states. This effort was heavily tied in to the GOP's overall 2026 midterm prospects, as they were intended to help the party create more favorable congressional districts and hold onto the House despite souring voter prospects.

November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM EST
Red state Democrat offers crash course on how to turn rural America blue

The popular, two-term Democratic governor of a deep-red state, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, sees an opening for Democrats to turn rural America blue. Beshear, 47, is considered a moderate, pro-choice Democrat, and won re-election in 2023. Last year he was ranked the second-most popular governor in the U.S.

November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM EST
New book reveals the 'rot of the MAGA mind'

In Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right , political theorist Laura K. Field explains how "under [President Donald] Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity," according to a review in The Atlantic. "For the past decade or more, the intellectual energy in American politics has been on the right," writes George Packer.

November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM EST
House Republicans look for the exits as White House treats members like 'garbage': insider

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson could lose his leadership position even earlier than the predicted Democratic wave in the 2026 midterms, according to new insider predictions. The political world was rocked on Friday evening when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she would be resigning halfway through her current term on Jan. 5. This move came on the heels of a weeks-long feud between the congresswoman and President Donald Trump, for whom Greene had long been a vocal supporter, which saw her publicly criticize his handling of the Epstein files, healthcare costs, the government shutdown, and more.

November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM EST
Trump predicts tariff payments to 'skyrocket' as Americans struggle with paying bills

President Donald Trump is praising his own tariffs, declaring that their impacts have yet to be fully felt, and predicting that payments are about to "skyrocket" -- just as the holidays approach and Americans are increasingly concerned about being able to pay their bills. Consumer sentiment has fallen to a near record low, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, noting that views of personal finances are "the dimmest since 2009, and consumers remain frustrated about high prices and weakening incomes."

November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM EST
Americans aren't buying Trump spin on the economy

President Donald Trump has been promoting "affordability" after the blowout off-year elections in 2025 revealed Americans aren't feeling the economic improvements he's claiming. According to CNN data analyst Harry Enten, there's a good reason for that. Costs are significantly higher than they were at the same time in 2024.

November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM EST
Here's how much Fox Corp cost Smartmatic: financial expert

The electronic voting company Smartmatic has submitted another filing that details more shocking revelations about Fox Corp. The company is suing over what it alleges were false allegations about its electronic voting equipment in the wake of the 2020 election. Each part of the case has shown details about what Fox staff and on-air talent have said under oath that could undermine Fox's defense.

November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM EST
DOJ's own court reporter busts Trump-picked attorney's timeline on bungled Comey indictment

An email from the government's own court reporter appears to muddy the Justice Department's claim that a full grand jury reviewed the final indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, Lawfare's Roger Parloff reports. The Justice Depart on Thursday did "a complete reversal on its position about whether the full grand jury in the Comey criminal case reviewed the indictment before it was handed up to a federal judge in September," NBC News reports. Lindsey Halligan, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was hand-picked by President Donald Trump to present the case against Comey.