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President Trump is doing absolutely nothing to dispel the growing rumor that he will completely disregard the Constitution to run for an illegal third presidential term.    “Steve Bannon said in a recent interview that there would be plans for you to be…

Donald Trump is about to give Larry Ellison and his son David another present. In July, the Trump administration gifted the mogul Paramount, whose properties include Paramount Studios and CBS, allowing it to merge with the Ellisons’ Skydance, despite…

The head of CNN wants his network to tone down its coverage of President Trump destroying the White House’s East Wing as he builds his enormous ballroom. Status reports that CNN CEO Mark Thompson told his staffers on a conference call Thursday to reduce the…

Senator Rand Paul is on a campaign to knock President Donald Trump off of his warpath.During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, host Shannon Bream asked the Kentucky Republican what information he wanted the government to provide about its military strikes in…

Donald Trump’s latest doctor visit turned out to be a fairly serious medical evaluation.The president stopped by Walter Reed Medical Center earlier this month, but the president’s team refused for days to explain why. Apparently it was for MRI scans, a…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In…

Three states—California, Oregon, and Illinois—are currently suing the Trump administration over its National Guard deployments, in separate lawsuits with mixed results. Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major setback to California…

Next Tuesday is Election Day, and in all three marquee races, the Democratic candidate appears to be at least fairly well positioned. Zohran Mamdani (at 45 percent) is way ahead in New York City, although if Curtis Sliwa were to drop out and encourage his…

Back in March, as the GOP drafted President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, 21 House Republicans sent a letter to the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee urging him to preserve the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy tax credits. The letter…

There is no collapse. No Lehman Brothers moment. Instead it’s a slow burn, a financial treadmill that many are never able to get off. Across the country, households are juggling a web of obligations: student loans, credit cards, car payments, medical bills,…

In recent days, President Trump has approved federal disaster aid for the red states of Nebraska, North Dakota, Missouri, and Alaska while denying it to the blue states of Maryland, Vermont, and Illinois. The White House has not offered meaningful explanations…

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On Tuesday evening, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley stepped onto the Senate floor to begin a marathon speech that extended well into Wednesday. The topic of his stemwinder was most urgent: “I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells.…

It looks like President Donald Trump’s family is once again using the White House as a personal piggy bank. A Florida-based drone manufacturer linked to Don Trump Jr. just received its largest ever contract to supply parts to the Pentagon, the Financial…

The ballroom replacing the White House East Wing will share Donald Trump’s name.The $300 million project has yet to receive a formal designation, but it is already being referred to as the “President Donald J. Trump Ballroom,” a moniker that will likely…

An anonymous ally of Donald Trump is donating $130 million to pay members of the military during the government shutdown.The Department of Defense confirmed Friday that “the donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of service…

Canada seems to be caving to President Trump, pulling a TV ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs. The ad originally began airing in Ontario last week, thanks to Doug Ford, the province’s conservative premier. The ad featured a…

New York State Attorney General Letitia James warned Friday that President Donald Trump is using the American justice system as a “tool of revenge.”After pleading not guilty to charges related to committing mortgage fraud and making false statements to a…

The Department of Defense is sending even more troops to the Caribbean and Latin America to combat “illicit actors.” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on X Friday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford, an aircraft…

President Trump’s Department of Justice is sending election monitors to “protect the votes of eligible American citizens” in six different blue districts this November. The poll monitors will focus on California, which is set to vote on a ballot measure…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday.The Brooklyn native extended his support with less than two weeks until Election Day. Early voting in the Big Apple begins Saturday.“Zohran Mamdani has…

The Department of Justice has come up with yet another African nation with a dismal human rights record to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador. In a brief filing Friday, prosecutors described Liberia as a “a thriving…

Even the president’s biggest supporters can’t get behind his most recent pardon.Earlier this week, Donald Trump wiped the criminal record of crypto billionaire and Binance exchange founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who was sentenced to four months in prison…

While President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to gut essential nutrition assistance for Americans, the Department of Homeland Security has managed to scrounge up a whopping $10 billion to build immigration detention facilities—and they’re using…

Donald Trump is planning to prosecute another one of his adversaries: Representative Nancy Pelosi. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Jesse Watters on Fox News Thursday that the Justice Department sent the former House speaker a letter after she suggested that…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 23 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.PERRY BACON: This is Right Now, the New Republic show on politics and policy. I’m the…

President Trump pulling out of trade talks with Canada has inspired its leaders to continue to rally around the flag rather than capitulate.“CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!! They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs,…

Whether or not a state receives federal disaster aid under the Trump administration appears to boil down to their vote in the 2024 presidential election.Donald Trump unlocked Federal Emergency Management Agency aid for several states this week, including…

Far-right commentator and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon says the president will serve a third term despite being barred by the Constitution. In a video interview with The Economist published Thursday, Bannon said, “Well, he’s gonna get a third…

I was going to write one more liberal column expressing outrage about what Donald Trump has done to the White House this week, but then I thought: Why? What would be the point? The people who would agree with me would agree with me, and the people who…