The White House on Friday cited the May jobs report as evidence that the labor market's robust, while Congressional Democrats called it weak. While labor conditions are softening, a deep dive into the report shows any weakness started long before the Trump administration, which is making undeniable progress reprivatizing the economy. Under President Biden, the government accounted for a disproportionate number of new jobs as runaway government spending and hiring artificially inflated the...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration on Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids. In an interview Sunday evening on MSNBC, Newsom said the lawsuit would challenge Trump’s federalizing of the California National Guard without the state’s consent, a move with little precedent in U.S. history. “Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV...

Republicans used to cheer the possibility of Medicaid cuts. Now, as the GOP advances President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that would reduce Medicaid spending, they’re rebranding it as making the program stronger. The shift reflects the striking new politics of Medicaid — and how dramatically the GOP’s coalition has changed under Trump. Now Democrats are hoping Medicaid could be the issue that exposes the cracks in the Trump coalition. They have seized on a nonpartisan...

If America relinquishes its leadership of the free world, our economy, our security, and our future will be in peril. The world is watching Ukraine, and what they see will determine America’s standing on the world stage for decades to come. If Russia emerges from this conflict appearing victorious, America’s interests — and those of our partners in Europe and around the world — will be severely damaged. This isn’t hyperbole — it’s the stark reality of how power...

Republicans say that able-bodied adults who don’t work would lose Medicaid coverage under the House tax-cuts-and-spending bill, while Democrats say the legislation would hurt vulnerable groups. The bill’s main target is those able-bodied adults, but other groups would lose coverage due to paperwork burdens and other provisions in the bill, health policy experts say. The majority of coverage losses under the bill would come from those who became eligible for Medicaid due to an expansion of...

Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation. But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark – if the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reportedly drafted a plan to delete all restrictions on greenhouse gases coming from...

ABC News correspondent Terry Moran has been suspended after attacking top Trump aide Stephen Miller as “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.” The decision came after Mr. Moran, shortly after midnight, criticized Mr. Miller and Mr. Trump in a social media post, which was later deleted. “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Mr. Moran said in the 12:06 a.m. Sunday post....