Topline Some 32% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents prefer political leaders with no previous government experience, compared to only 10% of Democrats, according to a new Pew Research ...
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Americans Increasingly See Political Opponents As Dishonest, Lazy And Close-Minded, Poll Finds
Topline The share of Democrats and Republicans who view members of the opposite party negatively and the proportion of Americans who are disillusioned with both parties are both up significantly, acco...
Most Americans Say Congress Must Protect Same-Sex Marriage And Contraception, Poll Finds
Topline The majority of Americans believe Congress should protect same-sex marriage and birth control access, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll released Monday, as the Senate gears up f...
Universal Free School Lunches Will End Soon After Cuts To Pandemic-Era Spending
Topline Universal access to free school lunches will come to an end in the coming weeks, after expanded federal funding passed during the early part of the pandemic was not renewed in the latest spend...
Congress To Ponder How To Deal With Long-Time Undocumented Immigrants
Ten million undocumented immigrants pose a challenge to U.S. immigration. How are we to deal with … [+] them? (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Univ...
House Passes Bill Protecting Gay Marriage—47 Republicans Vote ‘Yes’
Topline The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday afternoon to codify the right for same-sex couples to marry into federal law, which Democrats proposed in response to Supreme Court Justice C...
Democrats See Boost In Midterm Support After Roe. V. Wade Ruling, Poll Suggests
Topline Republicans and Democrats are in dead heat for control of Congress in November, a new poll from New York Times/Siena College suggests, a sign Democrats may have picked up support from the Supr...
President’s Party Up Against Poor Odds In The Midterms [Infographic]
According to a new poll by Gallup, Americans are looking forward to the 2022 midterm election. This enthusiasm might not be shared by those whose performance is coming up to a vote in November—usuall...
Trust In U.S. Institutions Hits Record Low, Poll Finds
Topline Only 27% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in 14 major American institutions on average, a record low since 1979 and a 5% drop from 2021, according to a poll conducted by Gallup, wh...
6 Republicans Allegedly Asked Trump For Pardons—Including Marjorie Taylor Greene And Matt Gaetz
Topline At least six Republican lawmakers asked the White House for pardons after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to testimony former White House officials gave to the January 6 co...
Trump Slams Gun Control Bill—But Senate Republicans Likely To Pass It Anyway
Topline Former President Donald Trump blasted top Senate Republicans on Wednesday for backing a bipartisan gun control bill, but it appears nearly a third of GOP senators could break with the ex-presi...
Republicans Seek to Counter Effort to Curtail Crypto Mining
Environmental regulators should seek “a comprehensive analysis as it relates to understanding the potential environmental effects of digital asset mining,” according to the letter, which was signed by...
S.C. Republicans Who Blamed Trump For Capitol Riot Face Off Against His Endorsed Challengers
Topline South Carolina Republican Reps. Tom Rice and Nancy Mace, who broke from former President Donald Trump following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, will face steep primary opposition Tuesday fro...
Yellen Downplays Stimulus Contributing to Inflation, Republicans Grill US Treasury Secretary’s Decisions – Economics Bitcoin News
U.S. Treasury secretary Janet Yellen doesn’t think inflationary pressures stem from the stimulus policies enacted after the Covid-19 outbreak. While speaking to lawmakers on Wednesday, during the Hous...
House Passes Sweeping Gun Control Measures—But Senate Republicans Will Spike Plan
Topline A legislative package strengthening national gun laws passed the Democratic-controlled House Wednesday following hours of impassioned debate and testimony on Capitol Hill, but the action was l...
Republicans Slam Biden On Student Loan Forgiveness
President Joe Biden (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Getty Images Republicans slam President Joe Biden on student loan forgiveness. Here’s what you need to know — and what it means for your stu...
House Republicans’ energy and climate plan pushes fossil fuels, hydro
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol May 11,...
Concessions To Congressional Republicans Doomed A Gun Control Law
People may think there was never a federal gun control law. There was, in fact, a good gun control law. But, it was not in force at the time of the Uvalde massacre earlier this week. It was not in for...
House Republicans seek more analysis on a possible US CBDC in letter to the Fed
Republican members of the US House Committee on Financial Services have sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlining the tasks they see as most salient in the path toward a central b...
Small But Growing Share Of GOP Voters Think U.S. Is Doing ‘Too Much’ To Aid Ukraine
Topline A growing minority of Republicans believe the U.S. is doing too much to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a poll released by Morning Consult on Thursday—the same day that Senate ...
47% Of Americans Less Likely To Back Anti-Abortion Congressional Candidates, Poll Finds
Topline Nearly half of all U.S. adults say they’re less likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes abortion rights, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday, reflect...
Abortion-Themed Political Ads Surged After Leaked Roe V. Wade Decision, Study Finds
Topline References to abortion in TV political advertising surged after Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion last week that would overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a report publish...
Republicans Are Warming To Biden’s Handling Of Ukraine Crisis, Poll Finds
Topline Though public opinion on the Biden Administration’s response to the war in Ukraine remains divided along party lines, Republican disapproval has fallen by 12 percentage points in the past two ...
Even Most Republicans Don’t Want Congress To Ban Abortion Nationwide, Poll Finds
Topline A majority of Americans—including slightly more than half of Republicans—are opposed to Congress passing legislation that would ban abortion nationwide, a new CBS News/YouGov poll found, as Re...
Arkansas Governor Who Signed State-Level Abortion Ban Says He’s Against A National Ban
Topline Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R)—who supported a near-absolute ban on abortions in his own state—told ABC Sunday he would oppose a national abortion ban, arguing the idea goes against the prin...
Republicans Push Drug In State Bills
Topline Republicans in a number of states have recently pushed legislation to promote ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine—two ineffective and potentially dangerous treatments for Covid-19—and protect do...
Republicans Will Try To Ban Abortion Nationwide If Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Report Reveals
Topline The fight over abortion restrictions could soon go from statehouses to Capitol Hill, as the Washington Post reports Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion rights activists are working to enact...
Unfavorable Views Of China At New High In Pew Survey Of Americans
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, right, answers questions as he sits beside Xi Jinping, China’s … [+] president, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2019. Photographer...
What Should Republicans Do If Biden Forgives Student Loans?
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Women’s … [+] Leadership Forum Conference on October 17, 2019 in Washington DC. (Photo by Eric BAR...