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Bret Stephens: Hola, Gail. ¿Qué opinas sobre la insistencia de Donald Trump en que el inglés sea nuestro idioma oficial? Gail Collins: Hey, Bret, great to be back conversing. And in Spanish no less, a language I once attempted — and failed — to learn. It was my second effort at becoming bilingual. In college,…
Democrats have a problem that runs deeper than the 2024 election. They have a problem that runs deeper than Elon Musk’s assault on the government. Look at the places they govern: strongholds like New York and Illinois and where I’m from, California. They’re losing people. [CLIP: Since the pandemic started, California is seeing an exodus,…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon delivered a stark message on Friday about the future of her agency. Asked on Fox News whether the United States “needs this department,” Ms. McMahon answered: “No, we don’t.” In the interview, her first since she was confirmed to her cabinet post this week, Ms. McMahon said that President Trump intended…
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, embarking on a personal post-mortem of the failures of his Democratic Party, suggested this week that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.” The comments by Mr. Newsom, who has backed L.G.B.T.Q. causes for decades and was one of the first American elected officials to officiate…
Members of Congress greet President Donald Trump as he arrives to address a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Tuesday night. AP While President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress had his fellow Republicans on their feet Tuesday night, the Democrats who comprise the delegation serving the North, West and…
Representative Al Green, Democrat of Texas, who was removed from the House chamber for heckling President Trump during his speech on Tuesday to a joint session of Congress, has a history of dramatic political gestures. Mr. Green, 77, shook his cane as he interrupted Mr. Trump’s speech, shouting that the president had “no mandate to…
Top congressional Democrats on military, intelligence and foreign policy matters on Tuesday accused President Trump and Elon Musk of gravely undermining national security by aligning with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and dismantling the federal security work force at a perilous time. “Since taking office a little more than a month ago, the president…
Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students, thwarting consideration in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move to use transgender people as leverage at the dawn of President Trump’s second term. With Democrats opposed, the measure stalled on a party-line…
Rather than boycott President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, some Democratic lawmakers are inviting former federal workers to the speech on Tuesday as a way to protest the mass firings and funding cuts that have defined Mr. Trump’s first month back in office. Federal workers’ treatment by Elon Musk’s Department of Government…
In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care program, the Affordable Care Act. Now, as Republicans push a budget resolution through Congress that will almost certainly require…
