If you watched or listened to mainstream media during the government shutdown, you heard Democrats being asked why they wouldn’t reopen the government. The Democrat must then give the traditional reporter a basic math lesson that explains that since Republicans are in charge of the House, Senate and White House, it is their responsibility to find a solution to the government shutdown.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump spent days trying to convince Senate Republicans to end the filibuster, so they could fund the government without Democratic votes. Senate Republicans refused. After what was…
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Tomorrow there will be a vote in the Senate on a plan to reopen the government. This vote will fail, as have more than a dozen previous votes.While the American people have blamed Republicans more than Democrats for the shutdown from the day it began, Republicans have felt pressure to act until now. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. Our news and opinions will never be filtered or controlled by anyone. Please support us by becoming a subscriber.Well, Republicans in Congress are feeling pressure to act. Donald Trump continues to ignore his shutdown.The difference in perspective between Trump and vulnerable Republican members…
Republicans are feeling the pressure after being defeated in 2025 elections aimed at ending government shutdown. Moderate Senate Republicans met with moderate Senate Democrats to try to reach an agreement to reopen the government. One area they still haven’t reached agreement on is restoring Obamacare subsidies.One of the biggest problems facing any deal is that House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to even allow a vote on extending the Obamacare subsidies.PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. We are not beholden to any political party or special interest. Support us by becoming a subscriber.If the speaker does not change his position, no matter what…
It could be argued that Nancy Pelosi is the most important political figure in the United States over the past 40 years. Throughout presidential administrations, Pelosi has navigated key legislation and led critical fights for the American people in the House. During the Clinton administration, she championed the Ryan White Care Act which expanded Medicaid to cover HIV/AIDS care and established the National HIV and AIDS Care System. Pelosi has played a vital role in changing the way HIV is cared for, and the changes she has made through legislation have saved lives.During the Bush administration, she led opposition to…
Even though the White House and Trump have both claimed that the Democratic battle in the 2025 election has nothing to do with him, the Trump administration tried to change course and have the president give a speech on the economy and prices. The White House’s plan to deal with rising prices is to lie and say there aren’t higher prices.Here’s what Trump said about food and gas prices:Gasoline prices have fallen to their lowest level in two decades, and we will soon see $2 gas.Think about it, $2 a gallon. It was up to four $55s. And you know,…
The Republicans have a problem. Since 2016, they have not managed to convincingly win an election without Donald Trump on the ballot. Remember the red wave of 2022?This is a trick question because the red wave never happened. Republicans announced to the country that a red wave was coming in the midterm elections, the halfway point of the Biden presidency.PoliticusUSA is not beholden to any political party or special interest. We are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.There was no red wave. Republicans won a majority in the House after Gov. Ron DeSantis gerrymandered Florida, and Democrats lost…
The myth of Trump’s mandate to rule the way he was was shattered from coast to coast Tuesday night, as Republicans suffered significant and historic losses in the vote.The White House’s first response was to deny that the defeats had anything to do with Trump, and it tried to blame Republicans in each race for those defeats, leaving aside the fact that the Republicans who lost were running on Donald Trump’s agenda.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Good presidents learn and adapt when their party suffers a massive setback at the ballot box.Bad presidents…
The Republicans have repeated all year that they have a mandate. Even when the country made it clear that it rejected Trump and his agenda, Republicans continued to repeat that they had a mandate, like a mantra, that they were trying to make happen.The real world arrived on election night 2025, and it was a complete beating of the president, his handling of issues, and the state of the country. PoliticusUSA is not beholden to any political party, agenda, or special interest. We are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Democrats have won every statewide election in Virginia. Democrats…
Trump and his two administrations have always been evasive about his health. Instead of releasing his medical records, Donald Trump made excuses or only released summaries and notes from his doctors. Trump is the most evasive president since Ronald Reagan when it comes to not disclosing his health problems. Reagan’s assessment is retroactive because the American people did not discover the true extent of Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease until long after he left office. During his second term, it was long suspected that Reagan was in decline, and his administration hid it. Forty years later, the American people regularly see an…
Doing anything that attempts to prevent people from voting is undemocratic. On Election Day 2024, bomb threats were made to polling places in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin.NPR reported in 2024:U.S. intelligence officials said the threats appeared to come from Russian email domains, although it was unclear whether the threats came from Russia.Intelligence officials previously said they were “observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations designed to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and inflame divisions among Americans.”Bomb threats are a way to destabilize democracy and make citizens fear going to the polls. PoliticusUSA news and…