Climate change will impose the greatest economic losses on Republican-leaning areas of the country that are almost uniformly resisting new efforts to combat it, according to a sweeping new study released Tuesday. In the study, researchers at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program found that states, counties and congressional districts […] Read more »
Welcome to 2020: Obstacles for Trump, and a wide-open Democratic race
A third of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents oppose President Donald Trump for the party’s nomination to a second term and 56 percent of all adults said they wouldn’t consider voting for him — two hurdles in his quest for re-election next year. But a potentially crowded Democratic field shows no […] Read more »
2 years into Trump’s presidency, a deficit in confidence across government
Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency and after a month-plus partial shutdown, a wide deficit of confidence marks public views of the government in Washington: Americans give poor marks to Trump’s work across a range of issues – yet broadly mistrust the opposition as well. Only 35 percent in this […] Read more »
A Bruised Trump Faces Uncertain 2020 Prospects. His Team Fears a Primary Fight.
President Trump’s defeat in his border-wall standoff with Congress has clouded his already perilous path to a second term in 2020, undercutting Mr. Trump’s cherished image as a forceful leader and deft negotiator, and emboldening alike his Democratic challengers and Republican dissenters who hope to block his re-election. The longest […] Read more »
Why Trump Blinked
President Trump blinked. The 35-day partial government shutdown appears to be ending. From the start of the shutdown, congressional Democrats said they would not negotiate regarding Trump’s proposal for a border wall until the government reopened. Trump said he would not agree to legislation opening the government unless it included […] Read more »
Why Trump didn’t build the wall when Republicans controlled Congress
The construction of a physical barrier along the Mexican border has been Donald Trump’s signature issue since he hit the campaign trail in 2015 and led repeated chants of “Build the wall!” After Trump won, he enjoyed two years when his fellow Republicans controlled both the Senate and House of […] Read more »