Samuel Larreal

6 days ago | notus.org | Evan McMorris-Santoro |Samuel Larreal

Today’s notice: A pope who could post online about whether New York or Chicago’s pizza is best. Lawmakers gearing up to ban their own stock trading. An Appropriations Chair navigating Trump 2.0. Republicans navigating reconciliation. Judge Pirro’s shoes to fill. American Man Elected, Other Elected Americans Excited Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has a degree from Villanova. Also, 20 years in Peru plus joint citizenship there.

1 week ago | stocktonia.org | Samuel Larreal

Some Democratic lawmakers say that cutting red tape for infrastructure and housing is the key to the party’s future — and they think a new bipartisan caucus launched by Rep. Josh Harder can help push it forward. The House Build America Caucus, which launched Thursday, builds off some Democrats’ interest in the ideas laid out in “Abundance,” a book by columnists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Some of the criticisms at the center of the book, Massachusetts Rep.

1 week ago | notus.org | Samuel Larreal

Some Democratic lawmakers say that cutting red tape for infrastructure and housing is the key to the party’s future — and they think a new bipartisan caucus launched by California Democratic Rep. Josh Harder can help push it forward. The House Build America Caucus, which launched on Thursday, builds off of some Democrats’ interest in the ideas laid out in “Abundance,” a book by columnists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Some of the criticisms at the center of the book, Rep.

1 week ago | notus.org | Evan McMorris-Santoro |Samuel Larreal

Today’s notice: The White House is done worrying about the markets. Mistakes will be made. And they can have unintended consequences. Crypt-no currency. And, someone get the president a NOTUS accountHas the GOP Populist Moment Finally Arrived? Donald Trump’s reelection was supposed to put an end to the GOP debate over embracing populism vs. traditional small-c conservative economic policy. And yet in Congress, the populists are not the ones driving the public debate over the reconciliation bill.

1 week ago | notus.org | Evan McMorris-Santoro |Samuel Larreal

Republicans on Capitol Hill are locked in an uncomfortable fight over cutting Medicaid and other services people like. Donald Trump’s tariffs are kicking in for real now, and his approval numbers remain among the lowest of his political career. Should be a good week to be a Democrat, in theory. In practice it seems to be quite challenging, as Semafor detailed in a recent piece about Dem poll numbers, which remain persistently low despite the public souring on MAGA.