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It’s a weird time for religion in the United States. Christians are on track to become a religious minority in the country within a few decades but also, soon, to wield incredible power in a second Trump administration—thanks not least to a neo-Crusader…

The House of Representatives finally voted to avert a government shutdown Friday evening, just hours before government funding was set to expire, thanks to Democratic help and Republicans’ decision to exclude Donald Trump’s demand to extend the debt…

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a simple fix for the current government shutdown battle.“How about the House add campaign finance reform to the CR so Republicans and Democrats alike can stop being so scared about what a billionaire man-child…

Roger Stone said Friday he wants to fix America’s broken justice system, conveniently forgetting the time he got bailed out of criminal charges by his buddy Donald Trump.During Stone’s address at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, the longtime…

Elon Musk is hoping to dispel the widely circulating notion that he, not President-elect Trump, is really calling the shots.On Thursday, X user Lulu Cheng Meservey called such speculations indicative of a wider “strategy” to sow discord between Musk and…

House Republicans seem poised to give Donald Trump the finger for the second time in less than 24 hours. Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new continuing resolution plan on Friday that does not include what the president-elect has been pining for for days: an…

Elon Musk is now threatening to get rid of Democratic lawmakers, but he has no idea who he’s dealing with … no, seriously he has no idea who he’s complaining about. Musk responded Friday to a video of Representative Richie Neal, the ranking member of the…

The list of people who hate Nancy Mace is growing longer with each passing day.On Friday, the cantankerous Republican representative’s former consultant took to X to air her out. “You can stop texting me. I fired Nancy Mace as [a] client a few months back…

Elon Musk has spent the week derailing a bipartisan funding bill, sending the U.S. government hurtling toward a shutdown. But on Friday, the tech billionaire broadened his scope from domestic to international politics with a ringing endorsement of Alternative…

Senator Kyrsten Sinema, former Democrat and current party thorn, made her feelings known in an “exit interview” with Semafor.The Arizona senator, who is perhaps best known for opposing key Democratic policies, along with her DINO collaborator Senator Joe…

A month out from Biden’s transfer of power to Trump, the president used his power to announce a massive new round of student loan forgiveness for public service workers. The news comes as Republicans in Congress are still scrambling to avert a government…

Trump and the rest of the GOP seem to be even more at odds over the debt ceiling than initially believed. “Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal,” the…

Elon Musk really hopes you don’t remember when he was cheering on a government shutdown … less than 48 hours ago. Shortly after a new “clean” spending bill failed to pass the House Thursday night, Musk took to X to lament how this was all the…

Donald Trump is desperate to pretend his shoddy leadership isn’t about to cause a government shutdown. A “clean” spending bill, which contained a Trump-requested provision to suspend the debt ceiling for 24 months, failed to pass on the House floor…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 19 episode of theDaily 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.As of…

In late December 2022, a rancher in Johnson County, Texas, called the constable’s office to complain about his neighbor. The neighbor had recently spread a kind of waste-derived fertilizer, known as biosolids, over his land, the caller said, and the piles…

In Democrats’ seemingly endless election postmortems—and in the postmortems on the postmortems—a persistent theme has been to blame the reddening of blue states like New York and New Jersey on crime in their big cities. On Pod Save America, the political…

Lady Liberty turned on her head is the sort of image one might expect a surly teenager with artistic aspirations to produce after reading The Great Gatsby or Howard Zinn, and it is the first image that the viewer of Brady Corbet’s third feature, The…

As of this recording, lawmakers are still chaotically rushing to avoid a government shutdown. And one thing is already clear from this fiasco: Donald Trump will betray his voters very, very badly. Trump and Elon Musk killed a compromise bill, demanding deep…

The highest-paying part-time job in human history is the position of chief executive at Tesla—or rather, it would be the highest if the legal system didn’t keep disallowing Tesla’s pay package for Elon Musk. Twice in the past year, the Delaware Court of…

Mike Johnson is about to be hoist by his own petard, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn’t coming to the rescue this time. During a press conference Thursday with House Democratic leaders, Jeffries was asked whether his party would consider voting…

House Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy has no intentions of backing down after Donald Trump personally singled him out in a threat to get with the program on the spending bill. The president-elect cut through an unusually quiet day from him to directly attack…

The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report Thursday, based on interviews with nearly 50 people knowledgeable of the operations of the Biden White House. The story details the extent to which the president’s age has posed an issue throughout his…

The Georgia appeals court’s decision to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the 2020 election interference case against Trump has launched the ongoing case into chaos. State officials must now find someone to fill her…

Trump is rushing to remind the media that he is the captain of the GOP, not Elon Musk.The “President Musk” rhetoric gained steam among Democrats after the billionaire helped kill the continuing resolution to keep the government open, voicing his opposition…

Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth still isn’t in the clear just yet—and now even Republicans want to see the receipts. At least 12 senators have requested to review the FBI’s background check on Hegseth, according to Politico. While…

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has thrown her weight behind Senator Rand Paul’s ridiculous proposal that Elon Musk be elected the speaker of the House of Representatives.“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul posted…

House Speaker Mike Johnson has begun the steady descent out of Donald Trump’s favor.A source close to Trump told NOTUS Thursday that the president-elect initially supported Johnson’s plan to keep the government funded, but was surprised to find that the…

Trump floated completely abolishing the debt ceiling on Thursday, surprising Democrats and Republicans alike. The shocking demand comes as the president-elect revealed his opposition to the bipartisan spending bill, bringing the federal government another step…

President-elect Donald Trump and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a peculiar exchange after the progressive lawmaker lost a bid to become her party’s ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. The interaction appeared laden with sarcasm but…