President Trump acknowledged on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday night that he plans to block Democrats' legislation if they retake the House and Senate after the midterms.
Why it matters: Trump is already sketching out a divided-government strategy as Republicans fight to hold their congressional majorities in the. midterms.
DALLAS — House Republican leaders have a message for anyone reading the GOP no-shows in Dallas as Republicans distancing themselves from President Trump: Don't delude yourself.
Why it matters:GOP leaders are convinced the convention is delivering on its promise to fire up Trump voters for November. The no-shows shouldn't be read as a lack of enthusiasm for the president, they insist.
DALLAS — House Republican leadership will bring the Ratepayer Protection Act — bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing data centers from driving up Americans' electricity bills — to the House floor next week, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Republicans want to show voters they're taking rising electric bills — and the massive power demands of new data centers — seriously.
American colleges are largely failing to create a healthy free speech climate on campus, according to a new national ranking.
Why it matters: Students are self-censoring at high rates amid intense political pressure from the Trump administration and efforts by some universities to change policies in response.
President Trump said in a new interview with "The Ingraham Angle" on Thursday that he would make the same decisions on the Iran war, despite acknowledging that he sometimes questions himself.
Why it matters: The Iran war is weighing on Trump and Republicans as they make their case to voters ahead of the midterms.
Trump faces declining approval ratings as Republicans sour on the president, thanks to the war in Iran, high gas prices and inflation.
What he's saying: "I don't believe in the word regret," Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham when asked about concerns over the war heading into the midterms.
"You can always question yourself a little bit. And a few people have asked me that. If I had it to do again, I'd do exactly as I did."
The big picture: Trump is making the Iran war part of his closing midterm argument rather than trying to move past it.
Trump used the first night of the GOP midterm convention in Dallas to defend the Iran war and attack Democrats. He also suggested that the war would end after election day.
"If we hand America's future to the radical-left Democrats, our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet," Trump said. "Vote Republican and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come."
DALLAS — House Majority Whip Tom Emmer intends to stay on as his party's whip, telling Axios he has no plans to try to move up the leadership ladder after the November midterms.
Why it matters: House Republicans are maneuvering ahead of post-election leadership contests, particularly given that they could lose the majority, scrambling the current leadership slate.
The Trump administration's renewed attempt to rewrite the rules for counting the U.S. population could upend congressional apportionment in future elections and likely spark a flurry of legal challenges.
Why it matters: The administration has proposed cutting undocumented immigrants and people without lawful permanent status from the 2030 tally, a sharp expansion of Trump's prior attempts to overhaul the count that could redefine who is considered part of the U.S. population.
The Justice Department is investigating Nvidia's $20 billion non-exclusive" licensing agreement with Groq to determine if it "tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny," according to the NY Times.
Why it matters: If this sort of arrangement is determined to be illegal, it could extend to a raft of other AI industry deals.
The Treasury Department failed to cow the bond market Wednesday with its amped-up buyback announcement, as rates still rose.
Why it matters: The reaction suggests that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's unusual showdown with the markets could itself add to upward pressure on interest rates — precisely the opposite of what most think he's trying to achieve.
The Trump administration is reshaping regulations to make data centers — and the fossil-fuel power fueling them— easier to build. Critics say the changes could increase pollution and reduce public input.
Why it matters: The moves risk inflaming an already fierce and bipartisan backlash to data centers, the backbone of the AI boom.
DALLAS — Republicans are invoking 9/11 to bash left-wing Democrats in a growing number of midterm races, seizing on the 25th anniversary of the attacks to portray them or their supporters as anti-American and sympathetic to terrorists.
Why it matters: It marks the return of a controversial political tactic that was common in the years after the 9/11 attacks but had largely faded from campaigns over the past quarter-century.
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The investigation comes amid rapidly escalating concern on Capitol Hill about the existential dangers posed by AI following public warnings by several Anthropic and OpenAI researchers.
