Maeve Reston

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Maeve Reston |Meryl Kornfield |Dylan Wells |Alexandra Pannoni

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3 weeks ago | rsn.org | Maeve Reston

In dozens of interviews at recent Democratic events, voters said their party leaders need to show a much greater sense of urgency — and develop a plan to stop Trump and Musk. Democrats are turning up by the thousands at rallies across the country — showing the stirrings of a populist uprising against President Donald Trump’s drastic cuts to government agencies and demanding that their leaders fight harder to save programs that benefit the middle class.

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Maeve Reston

Democrats are turning up by the thousands at rallies across the country — showing the stirrings of a populist uprising against President Donald Trump’s drastic cuts to government agencies and demanding that their leaders fight harder to save programs that benefit the middle class. The question now facing the party — which has been in the grips of an identity crisis since November — is whether it can harness that pulsating energy to slow Trump’s agenda at a time when they have so little power.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Maeve Reston

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s more than a year before Democrats will have a chance to find their way out of the political wilderness in the midterm elections, but voters turned out in droves Thursday to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) rail against the government-slashing policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Maeve Reston |William Wan |Aaron Schaffer |Clara Ence Morse |Cat Zakrzewski |Alex Horton | +2 more

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are scheduled to deliver remarks Friday morning from the Oval Office. The White House has not advertised the subject matter. Before the joint appearance, Elon Musk is scheduled to receive a briefing by Defense Department leaders focused on the threat posed by China and the billionaire’s work to slash the U.S. government bureaucracy, people familiar with the matter said.