Typically we judge people on how they handle the event and not the event themselves.
Trump isn’t blamed for covid, but how he handled it. Biden shouldn’t be blamed for inflation (it was bound to happen given covid spending), but how he addressed it.
Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is not the the result of any one president’s or congress’ actions, but a consistent systemic issue with both.
If you look at food insecurity year over year, it seems like the 2021 trend was probably more tied to inflation than anything else (as you can see it plateau when inflation leveled off) - https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics
I would argue Biden was doing a lot more for the people than Trump is currently. The real issue is that proper policy takes time to enact and sometimes longer to have an effect.
Yeah, if you look at many stats things started getting worse under Trump, accelerated due to Covid, then peaked midway through Bidens term, and continued to get better until Trump took back over. Under Trump most stats have stagnate or gotten worse (inflation, wage growth, debt, etc.).
You’re not paying attention if you think this is him backing down. This is probably even better for him as it gives his allies a slush fund to ensure the midterms or at the very least ensure their continued support.
He isn’t due anything for the leak, it did zero reputation harm and he had promised to release the anyways.
The chairman position is picked from members of the board for a set term, Powells term is ending.
However, Powell, as a middle finger to Trump, isn’t leaving the board. Typically after serving as the chairman, a board member would leave the board. Powell, mostly due to Trumps attempt to influence the board, has decided to stay on breaking a 75 year precedent.
Its nice to see someone breaking precedent to stick it to Trump. I just hope he has enough influence to keep Walsh in check, otherwise we’re all screwed.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/05/09/fed-chair-jerome-powell-just-broke-75-years-of-pre/
They’re talking about the federal Supreme Court effectively overturning the Voting Rights Act this past week - https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana-alabama-4e3225083caccda5ec73a98533a79add.
This has caused Louisana to stop an election already happening so they could redistrict, and is what Alabama is referencing for their redistricting push.
The VA case is different as their redistricting was never a federal issue. The VA Supreme Court said the legislation to kickoff a redistricting went against VA laws.
God that’s my hope too
I don’t disagree, Johnson has been abusing the power to recess congress throughout his tenure.
I was just noting that he hasn’t crossed the line of not swearing someone in. If he was preventing someone casting votes that should/would be a big deal.
I don’t think that’s actually been a real issue. While Johnson waited some 3-4 weeks to swear in Grijalva around the recent shutdown, congress was technically in recess the whole time. While it’s kinda a jerk move, the moment he finally called back congress into session he did swear her in. So nothing was voted on or done inbetween her being eligible to be sworn in and when she was actually sworn in.
He did keep congress in recess for a long time to hold up passing the bill on the epstein file release (as Grijalva was a critical vote on that), but it didn’t really change anything.
We already know she was giving contracts and deals to family /herself - https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group
It would be nice to see someone face some consequences, but this is just a step towards correcting the country and can not undo the damages dealt by this administration.
Even with concerted efforts to rebuild, it will take decades to undo the damages.
Oh my god, read the article:
The bill does not make women ineligible to vote if they have changed their names after marriage. But its documentation provisions could make voter registration harder for people who change their names and don’t have valid passports.
Sorry I’ve got to down vote you, but its in your own article:
A passport alone would be sufficient to register under the bill
Hard to link to the specific line, but this is only one of a few instances where they state a passport is enough.
Edit: If a passport wasn’t enough, the percentage impacted by the bill would be a lot higher.
Just look at how long it took to roll out Real IDs. I think it took over a decade, there is now way to implement the Save act correctly by the midterms. Hell even by the next presidential election.
Isn’t a passport enough to prove citizenship? I thought the issue is you need drivers license + birth certificate or passport or real ID. That’s at least what this Source says.
It’s amazing what tariffs and uncertainty can do to an economy.
I mean, when has she actually done something good? Even in the article they say she votes with Trump 98% of the time (more than Rand Paul).
Luckily states control how elections are run so that’s currently just fear mongering.
However, acknowledging your concern, only about 50% of Americans even own a passport Source. While this article says only 9% don’t have direct access to their proof of citizenship, I suspect that percentage is overstated.
What’s hilarious is that all feels like bottom of the barrel stuff, like we should just be doing that stuff by default.
A lot of people posit that they’re doing the construction work because the shows weren’t selling and they needed to stop hemmoraging money and bad publicity. If you were tracking their ticket sales you’d see they couldn’t move tickets at all after Trump kicked out the old board.