More Than Half of the Public Worries Federal Medicaid Budget Cuts Would Affect Their Family’s Ability to Obtain and Afford Care KFF As Congress weighs spending cuts and other changes to Medicaid, more than half (54%) of the public say they are worried significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending would negatively affect their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.
Support for populist ideas remains strong, but some countries have seen belief fall Jamie Stinson, Ipsos
Americans’ Views on Energy at the Start of Trump’s Second Term Brian Kennedy, Emma Kikuchi and Alec Tyson, Pew Research Center
More Americans disapprove than approve of the job Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing as U.S. health secretary Jenn Hatfield, Pew Research Center
Nearly one in three Americans have stopped purchasing from a company due to politics Mallory Newall, Ipsos
Republicans and Democrats on X differ over the site’s politics and their experiences Michelle Faverio and Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
New research shows the American public continues to support diversity, equity, and inclusion policies LSE USAPP Voters Overwhelmingly Support the Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act Data for Progress Republicans’ Unpopular 2025 Plan Leaves Them Vulnerable in 2026 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Arizona Political Climate: Division, Division, Division Noble Predictive Insights
Californians and Civic Education Tani Cantil-Sakauye and Mark Baldassare, Public Policy Institute of California
South Carolina: May 2025 Winthrop Poll Winthrop University The Day That Trump and Musk Torched Their Partnership Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey and Natalie Andrews, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Elon Musk Burns MAGA Bridges as Republicans Back Trump in Brawl Olivia Beavers and Jasmine Li, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Nervous Republicans flee Trump-Elon Musk blast radius Jonathan Allen, Matt Dixon and Kristen Welker, NBC News From bromance to breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump blew up Shannon Bond, NPR News Nobody Wins in the Trump-Musk Breakup Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic [unlocked] 17 thoughts on the Trump-Elon feud Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin 8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other Kellen Browning, New York Times [unlocked] The GOP doesn’t really care how the pardons were signed Philip Bump, Washington Post [unlocked] They Called It Efficiency. It Was Always a Purge. Adam Bonica, On Data and Democracy
Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats G. Elliott Morris, Strength In Numbers Trump’s justifications for the latest travel ban aren’t supported by the data on immigration and terrorism Charles Kurzman (UNC Chapel Hill), The Conversation Republican Sleaze, Democratic Slump Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Medicare cuts in play as Senate GOP hones budget bill Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Caitlin Reilly, Roll Call The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before Elena Shao, New York Times [unlocked]
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