La medida tiene pocas posibilidades, dada la falta de voluntad de la mayoría de los legisladores republicanos para desafiar al presidente Donald Trump, quien con toda seguridad la vetaría.
By Megan Mineiro
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
By Tom Suozzi
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
By Luke Broadwater
Democrats are battling each other over age, with the nation’s oldest president in office.
By Lisa Lerer
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump’s attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
By Megan Mineiro
Who lost the debate may be clearer than who won.
By Mara Gay, Nicole Gelinas, Josh Barro and John Guida
A movement born in churches to help vulnerable immigrants has become a constitutional battleground in Chicago and Portland, Ore.
By Marcela Valdes
Jay Jones apologized for his threatening messages and tried to tie his opponent, Jason Miyares, to President Trump’s policies.
By Amy Qin
After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future.
By Nick Corasaniti
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.
By Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others in a state President Trump won in 2024.
By Megan Mineiro
The way to advance his worldview, he argues, is to show that it works.
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Ten years into the Trump era, Democrats still don’t seem to know how to respond.
By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens
Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa will meet onstage at 7 p.m. for the first of two general election debates.
By Michael Gold
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Andrew M. Cuomo, the former governor of New York, intends to attack Zohran Mamdani’s qualifications and leftist ideology. He will be under fire, too.
By Nicholas Fandos
Ten members of Congress wrote in a letter to the governor that a gas pipeline proposed for New York Harbor runs counter to the state’s emissions reductions goals.
By Hilary Howard and Grace Ashford
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, defended his positions while parrying questions about the Israel-Gaza war.
By Maya King
Representative Mikie Sherrill has a six-point edge over her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
By Tracey Tully
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva appeared at the Capitol with other Arizona Democrats on Wednesday to criticize the Republican speaker for continuing to refuse to swear her in.
By Annie Karni
Mr. Moulton, a 46-year-old fellow Democrat, released a video emphasizing the age difference between himself and Mr. Markey, 79.
By Jenna Russell
Plus, there may be lead in your protein supplements.
By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Julie Bosman
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
By Tony Romm and Lazaro Gamio
The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue the president’s perceived foes.
By Devlin Barrett and Michael S. Schmidt
The president said his administration was “closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.” He promised to release a list of programs by Friday.
By Tony Romm and Catie Edmondson
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A debate preview. Also, Zohran Mamdani speaks in Manhattan and his critics get spoofed on “Saturday Night Live.”
By Katie Glueck
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
By Shane Goldmacher and Jenna Russell
How the Democratic nominee for mayor who has stunned the New York establishment is working to shore up support and sustain his momentum.
By Astead W. Herndon
The former transportation secretary argues Americans need a new sense of belonging.
By Pete Buttigieg, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger
The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.
By Astead W. Herndon
Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, said a firm once owned by her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, spread misinformation about opioids. His campaign has threatened to sue her for defamation.
By Tracey Tully and Joseph Goldstein
The reactionary centrism of “After the Hunt.”
By Michelle Goldberg
What does it mean to be a “good” Muslim in America?
By Meher Ahmad
Facing challenging political headwinds and deep frustration among residents, a Democratic city councilwoman promises a turnaround.
By Rick Rojas
Viral videos showing caustic behavior have blunted her momentum in the California governor’s race. Other campaigns are scrambling to take advantage.
By Laurel Rosenhall and Benjamin Oreskes
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On this week’s round table: courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.
By Michelle Cottle, E. J. Dionne Jr., David French and Derek Arthur
Troop deployment. Black Hawk helicopters landing on apartment buildings in the middle of the night. President Trump’s militarization of blue cities is well underway — and yet, Jon Favreau argues, it’s natural that it’s not top of mind for every voter. On this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Favreau sits down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss how Democrats should be thinking about that now and heading into the midterms.
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Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.
By Ezra Klein
Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
“Horseshoe” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
By Michael Hirschorn
On this week’s round table: courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.
The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats’ resolve.
By Catie Edmondson
Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.
By Adam Nossiter
Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, have a kinship shaped in part by their shared opposition to the president.
By Jeffery C. Mays
Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party’s deep hostility to Mr. Trump.
By Reid J. Epstein, Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro
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It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.
By Andrew Duehren
President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.
By Jesse McKinley
What the polling says, who’s up, who’s down — and when it might end.
By Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver
When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt.
By David Brooks
The city said that National Guard patrols will start on Friday, adding to an ongoing surge of federal forces in the city.
By Emily Cochrane
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
By Carl Hulse
The basic political conflict in America has changed to something very different than the one putting health care to the fore.
By Nate Cohn
The former Democratic congresswoman, known for her own grilling of executives on Capitol Hill, threatened to abandon an interview after she was asked several follow-up questions.
By Laurel Rosenhall
Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.
By Robert Jimison
Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat, described starkly different visions for the state in a debate Wednesday.
By Tracey Tully, Nick Corasaniti and Taylor Robinson
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The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats’ role in the government shutdown.
By Michael Gold
Two Democratic senators from Arizona confronted Speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in a newly elected House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who had won a special election in their state last month. They also fought over the government shutdown and the Epstein files.
By Jamie Leventhal
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.
By J. David Goodman
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.
By Megan Mineiro
Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.
By Elisabeth Bumiller and Erica L. Green
Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee General Assembly, was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.
By Emily Cochrane
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.
By Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.
By Jamie Leventhal
The government shutdown fight has spotlighted a debate between Republicans and Democrats about whether and how much the government should subsidize health care.
By Margot Sanger-Katz
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
By Glenn Thrush and Devlin Barrett
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After all, there is “an enemy within.”
By Thomas B. Edsall
Matt Van Epps won the Republican nomination for a December special election in the state’s Seventh Congressional District. State Representative Aftyn Behn won the Democratic primary.
By Emily Cochrane
President Trump said he was open to making “the right deal” on health care with Democrats. Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, denied any talks were underway.
By David E. Sanger
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
By Carl Hulse
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.
By Shawn McCreesh
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party’s lawmakers in some of the most competitive House districts.
By Catie Edmondson
The Democratic representative-elect won her Arizona seat overwhelmingly. But so far, the Republican speaker will not swear her in.
By Michael Gold
Republicans’ exploitation of the government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
By Frank Bruni
Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Mike Johnson each accused the other of not being “serious” about talks to end the shutdown as the government was closed for a fifth day.
By Anushka Patil and Talya Minsberg
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.
By Annie Karni
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If Democrats don’t win the shutdown fight, millions of young Americans may lose coverage because of higher prices.
By Natalie Foster
Trump’s exclusionary view of the country strains the bonds of union.
By Jamelle Bouie
The Democrats need to understand that woke can be good business.
By Molly Jong-Fast
This week, the round table convenes to discuss who wins and who loses when the government shuts down.
By Jamelle Bouie, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Derek Arthur
The California politician on his “wake-up call” at an earlier moment of political upheaval, and the one he’s experiencing today.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
A West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is playing out in Portland. But the socialist city councilors, who say the city has been “run by the rich” for too long, are facing significant opposition.
By Kellen Browning and Jordan Gale
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