The White House is seriously considering a strategy to cancel tens of billions of dollars of wasteful spending in the $1.3 trillion budget signed by President Donald Trump last month.
Teachers in several states have gone on strike for better pay in recent weeks, and more Americans than ever agree that school teachers aren’t paid enough.
With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, "Animal Assad," ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself and us into a corner.
Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending April 5.
As teachers in several states protest for higher wages and more school funding, an increasing number of Americans see teachers’ unions as a good thing and fewer feel those unions prioritize protecting their members over the quality of education. Still, more than half believe the interests of these unions are more self-serving.
Employed Americans work long hours, but most enjoy their workday.
President Trump’s policies were making waves beyond our borders this week, and voters like most of what they saw.
Eight hundred thousand people participated in the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on March 24, say organizers with the #NeverAgain movement sparked by the Parkland, Florida school massacre. The turnout was impressive -- but will it lead to new gun legislation?
Voters are closely divided over whether the United States and China are now in a trade war and whether America will emerge as the victor. But political affiliation once again colors the opinions.
With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his promise to bring the troops home.
Following another bumpy month on the stock market and with a potential trade war with China brewing, economic confidence has fallen again this month. But it still remains well above where it was in the Obama years.
"I am worried," writes Harvard geneticist David Reich in The New York Times, "that well-meaning people who deny the possibility of substantial biological differences among human populations are digging themselves into an indefensible position, one that will not survive the onslaught of science."
President Trump recently announced his plan to send military troops to the Mexican border to help prevent illegal immigration until his border wall is built. Just over a year into his term, voters see Trump’s handling of immigration as a mixed bag, but that’s better than how they felt about Obama.
As President Trump talks to his staff about pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, fewer voters see the war-torn nation as a vital national security interest for the United States. And nearly half continue to believe the best way to handle the Syrian crisis is to leave it alone.
— The partisan structure of the races for governorships and Senate seats are now exact mirror opposites.
— Sen. Angus King (I-ME) and Gov. Tom Wolf (D-PA) get ratings upgrades.
— Rep. Elizabeth Esty’s (D, CT-5) retirement gives Republicans an upset opportunity and is another example of how #MeToo is contributing to a high number of open House seats this cycle.
A bill was introduced in New York City that would make it illegal for businesses to contact their employees by e-mail or instant message during after-work hours. Just over half of Americans oppose a law like that, and few think it would have a positive impact on the economy.
Are Americans workaholics? Maybe, since many can’t seem to step away from the office, even on vacation.
Voters here are strongly critical of Mexico’s efforts to keep illegal drugs and illegal immigrants out of the United States, and just over half agree with President Trump that NAFTA is a good weapon to use to make our southern neighbor clean up its act.
Open borders tour guides in Mexico illegally shepherding 1,500 Central Americans to the United States border declared victory this week. Mexican officials reportedly are offering humanitarian visas to avert a showdown. But the parade of immigration lawlessness marches on -- with reckless aiding and abetting by churches across the U.S.
Soda will cost you more in Philadelphia, Seattle, Boulder, Colorado, and a bunch of California cities because politicians in those places voted to tax it.
