Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing their federal food stamp benefits? None.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – November 12, 2025 To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Would you believe that Obamacare is suddenly and unexpectedly on the brink of financial collapse only because Republicans won’t rescue it, and it is incumbent on them to preserve the program from...

Democrats fought to protect Obamacare during a 40-day government shutdown.

Lawmakers are in a standoff over whether to extend ObamaCare subsidies, with Republicans proposing reforms to reduce health care spending and Democrats seeking to increase subsidies to mask rising …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs in a series of executive orders earlier […]

We are now in the longest government shutdown in US history, at 36 days.

Senate Democrats feel confident after Tuesday’s election that they have the advantage over Republicans in the government shutdown battle and are pointing to President Trump’s statement that Republi…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 29, 2025 Powell hints at no rate cut in December, but why cut this week? Yet inflation remains above the Fed’s official 2% target even excluding tariffs. When the Fed chief says inflation would be 2.3%-2.4% without tariffs rather than 2.8% (according to the Fed’s core personal-consumption-expenditure measure), Mr. Powell is admitting...

The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 2025 His changes will be difficult to reverse. It’s axiomatic in Washington, D.C., that changes that are undertaken by administrative action alone are easy to reverse. There’s no doubt that if a Democratic president wins next time, he or she will undo much of what Trump has done through executive action, but will he...