The president’s directive signals part of the strategy Trump is likely to take to avoid a repeat of his first term, when Democrats flipped the House just two years into his presidency.

Elon Musk's newly-launched independent political party, the "America Party," poses a real risk of being a spoiler for Republicans in the 2026 midterms, according to a new poll by Echelon Insights. The post NEW POLL: Elon Musk’s America Party Would Swing the 2026 Election From GOP to Democrats on Generic Ballot first appeared on Mediaite.

GOP senators said they would remove $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR from the rescissions proposal, which targets foreign aid and public broadcasting, ahead of a Friday deadline.

Senate Republicans had barely enough votes Tuesday to advance President Trump's proposal to claw back money appropriated for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

House Republicans are urging their Senate GOP colleagues not to make any changes to the bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as the party races toward a Friday deadline to send the package to President Trump’s desk.

Democrats also scoffed at the GOP’s stated motivation for taking up the bill. The amount of savings pales compared to the $3.4 trillion in projected deficits over the next decade that Republicans put in motion in passing Trump’s big tax and spending cut bill two weeks ago.

Republicans are trailing behind Democrats among registered voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to new polling from the firm of Tony Fabrizio, who served as President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign pollster.

The latest attempt by House Democrats to force a vote on releasing files related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein failed on Tuesday. Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote — known as the motion on ordering the previous question — since failure would have triggered a vote on Rep.

President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.

Swing-district Republicans could benefit from supporting the ACA's premium tax credits, a memo from a GOP pollster found.