The estimated cost of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom has surged to $600 million, with internal records showing taxpayers could be responsible for roughly half the price

Across the country, families continue to face rising costs that touch nearly every aspect of daily life. The increases are showing up at gas stations, in grocery stores, on utility bills, and in household budgets already stretched by years of inflation and economic uncertainty.

The fear among critics is not simply that Republicans may win more seats in 2026. It is that the machinery now being built at the state level could eventually produce enough institutional power to permanently alter how American democracy functions.

Republican lawmakers across the South are moving rapidly to redraw congressional maps, dismantle Black voting districts, and reshape political power before the 2026 midterm elections, triggering a sweeping legal and civil rights battle that advocates say threatens some of the most important gains secured since passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

The shocking murder-suicide committed by former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax

In letters submitted during the official comment period, the senators urged OPM to abandon plans that would move appeals involving employee suitability and workforce reductions out of the Merit Systems Protection Board and into OPM itself, arguing the change would erode due process and open the door to political interference.

MoveOn members say they have no patience for cowardly Democrats.