What the New York mayor’s race will reveal about the Democratic party The political differences between the two main candidates could have major implications for next year’s midterms The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer Blast Trump's White House Bathroom Makeover: 'Millions Of Americans Will Face...Quadruple Health Insurance Premiums' President Donald Trump came under fire on Friday for focusing on a White House bathroom renovation. Benzinga · Nov 1, 2025
Obama Warns 47 Million Americans Face Food Shortages As Courts Force Trump To Restore SNAP Benefits Former President Barack Obama tweeted on Friday that more than 47 million Americans, including one in five children, lack steady and affordable access to healthy food. Obama noted that more families are relying on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as the cost of living continues to rise. Benzinga · Nov 1, 2025
The Latest: Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2025
Chuck Schumer Says Trump 'Folded On China' After Creating The Tariff Policy Mess To Begin With: 'Delusion Is Unbelievable' Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted President Donald Trump's decision to pare back tariffs on China after a face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping, arguing that Trump is "trying to clean up the mess" he created and now wants "17 pats on the back" for it. Benzinga · Oct 31, 2025
Chuck Schumer Says Trump Is 'Lying' And 'Manufacturing A Hunger Crisis' By Cutting Off SNAP During A Shutdown: He Is Using Americans As 'Hostages' Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump over an impending lapse in food assistance, accusing the White House of "using Americans as hostages" by refusing to extend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1 while the government shutdown grinds on. Benzinga · Oct 30, 2025
SNAP deadline becomes Democrats' sharpest leverage Democrats are making the GOP own the food aid freeze for 42 million Americans. Axios · Oct 29, 2025
Obamacare insurance prices will jump up 26% next year, report predicts Enhanced subsidies keeping premiums affordable for millions will expire, threatening to more than double what households pay out of pocket The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts Speaker Mike Johnson For Keeping GOP Health Care Plans Secret: Says She Has To Go to A Secure Room To 'Find Out' Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of withholding details of a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act, intensifying GOP tensions as health care costs loom as a 2026 election issue. Benzinga · Oct 29, 2025
Democrats embrace votes to make government shutdown hurt less It's an attempt to make Republicans own more of the acute and escalating pain. Axios · Oct 29, 2025
Shutdown stretches into 28th day as Senate again fails to pass spending legislation As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican bill The Guardian - US · Oct 28, 2025
Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against him. Both are wrong The Guardian - US · Oct 28, 2025
The government shutdown staring contest will finally get real this week: Who blinks first? ANALYSIS: Up until now, most of the American public has been insulated from the shutdown’s effects, Eric Garcia writes. But with SNAP recipients going hungry, labor groups demanding the government reopen and ongoing health insurance enrollment, Trump and Democrats might be forced to find a solution. The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2025
Republicans Are Weighing An Extreme Option To End Government Shutdown, Risking Permanent Change To Senate Rules And Bipartisan Balance As the government shutdown stretches into another week, Senate Republicans are openly considering the "nuclear option," eliminating the filibuster in a bid to force through a funding bill. Benzinga · Oct 27, 2025
The Guardian - US · Oct 26, 2025 Can Democrats harness the energy of the No Kings protests to fight Trump? Millions took to US streets to oppose authoritarianism as Democrats acknowledge ‘People want to see us fighting’
International Business Times UK · Oct 24, 2025 Government Shutdown Chaos: Trump Blamed After 'Failed' Senate Vote Leaves Federal Workers in Limbo Over Pay Amid the Trump shutdown, a Senate fight erupts over paying federal workers. See why Democrats blocked the GOP bill and if a deal can be reached to pay feds soon.
Axios · Oct 23, 2025 Cracks emerge in Democrats' unity on government shutdown "They should be paid for that work," one Senate Democrat said Thursday.
The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2025 Why Democrats are calling latest Republican shutdown measure the ‘let the President decide who he feels like paying act’ One Republican senator suggests Republicans change the filibuster to reopen the government
The Guardian - US · Oct 23, 2025 US Senate fails to pass bill to pay federal essential workers and troops through shutdown ‘Shutdown fairness act’, introduced by Ron Johnson, Republican senator from Wisconsin, failed in a 54-45 vote
Axios · Oct 23, 2025 Exclusive: Sanders weighs in on AOC's future, 2028 Ocasio-Cortez is positioning herself for a political leap in 2028, whether for president or challenging Chuck Schumer.
Axios · Oct 22, 2025 "The Axios Show": Sanders blames "dark period" for Platner tattoo "I suspect that Graham Platner is not the only American to have gone through a dark period."
Reason · Oct 22, 2025 Don't Extend Obamacare Subsidies To End the Government Shutdown Government interference in health care should be reduced, not expanded.
Axios · Oct 22, 2025 Democratic primary war escalates over Graham Platner Schumer said Mills "is the best candidate to retire Susan Collins."
The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025 Trump says he’d be glad to talk to Schumer and Democrats — but only after they agree to key shutdown demand ‘He owns this shutdown,’ one Democrat says.
The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025 Bernie Sanders stands by Maine oysterman taking on Susan Collins despite ‘racist’ posts and ‘troubling’ tattoo The anti-establishment ex-Marine earned plaudits from some Democrats. Now his comments risk their chances of defeating incumbent Republican senator