The Commerce Department has agreed to a request from the Justice Department to include a citizenship status question on the 2020 Census. Commerce made the announcement late Monday, saying that the question would line up with the language used the American Community Survey. CONT. Niels Lesniewski, Roll Call Read more »
Why Trump Isn’t Taking Democrats’ Offer For A Wall
President Trump has a choice. Democrats in Congress have offered to provide billions of dollars for one of his signature campaign proposals: a wall (or something akin to it) along the U.S.-Mexico border. But in exchange, they want a provision that would grant protection from deportation and create a path […] Read more »
Don’t blame ‘Washington.’ Blame the GOP.
Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans. So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-pointing, will yield a government willing to govern. But the problem isn’t “Washington.” It isn’t “Congress,” either. The problem is elected officials […] Read more »
The Congressional Stalemate Over Guns and Immigration Isn’t Going Away
The dim odds that Congress will respond to the Parkland school massacre with meaningful gun control and the flickering prospects it will pass immigration reform both reflect the same obstacle: the widening trench between the forces of transformation and restoration in American politics. The convergence of the two policy debates […] Read more »
Polls show Americans are closer to Democrats than Donald Trump on immigration
President Trump has proposed what he calls a “fair compromise” with Congress on immigration policy, with four main components: A path to citizenship for DREAMers — unauthorized immigrants who came as children A border wall with Mexico and increased funding for Border Patrol Ending the diversity visa lottery Banning US […] Read more »
Poll Hub: Census and Sensibility
Unlike his predecessors, President Donald Trump has tied his job performance to that of the stock market. With the Dow Jones plummeting at the beginning of the week, what does this mean for the president? Do Americans attribute the market’s ups and downs to him? Poll Hub breaks it down. […] Read more »