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GOP megabill faces grim polling for Republicans

14 hours ago | politico.com | Andrew Howard

What three new polls reveal about the public’s lukewarm attitude toward the megabill as the Senate rushes to finish it. Staff members remove a sign following a press conference after the House passage of the tax and spending bill, at the Capitol on May 22, 2025, in Washington.
ICE agents detain NYC comptroller in chaotic scene

14 hours ago | politico.com | Jeff Coltin |Joe Anuta |Ry Rivard

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor, was taken into custody at a Manhattan federal building. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court in New York, on June 17, 2025.
Mamdani’s Black voter gap

20 hours ago | politico.com | Joe Anuta |Jeff Coltin |Nick Reisman |Emily Ngo

With help from Cris Seda Chabrier Zohran Mamdani is still lagging behind Andrew Cuomo on drumming up support from Black and Latino voters. | Angelina Katsanis for POLITICO Zohran Mamdani’s democratic socialist policies are a hit with affluent white voters. But the surging mayoral candidate trails Andrew Cuomo among New Yorkers he says his plans will help the most. The upstart candidate is lagging the former governor with Black and Latino voters in all the polls.
Layoffs and library closures: DOGE cuts hit states

1 day ago | politico.com | Sophia Cai |Irie Sentner |Ben Johansen

Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | The Trump administration’s budget-slashing campaign is beginning to hit state governments in full force, as legislatures finalize their spending plans for the next year and confront a harsh reality: less federal help, more layoffs.
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding

1 day ago | politico.com | Jennifer Scholtes
Lawmakers aim to close opioid settlement fund loophole

1 day ago | politico.com | Katelyn Cordero |Maya Kaufman

A linguistic loophole could put an estimated $250 million opioid settlement payout in jeopardy due to New York for addiction treatment, prevention and recovery programs, POLITICO Pro’s Maya Kaufman reports. The settlement proceeds were secured earlier this year in part by State Attorney General Letitia James, who worked on a multistate case against members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, which developed the opioid painkiller OxyContin.
ESOPs like what they’re hearing in Trump 2.0

1 day ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

TAKING STOCK: Proponents of expanding a corporate set-up that allows workers to accrue ownership stakes in companies are bullish on the Trump administration clearing regulatory hurdles they believe have hindered their growth for years.
All eyes on Mills in Maine Senate race

1 day ago | politico.com | Andrew Howard

Democrats are eager to run for governor in Maine. For the Senate, not so much. The Democratic primary for the open Maine governor’s mansion continues to attract some of the top political talent in the state, but the race against longtime Sen. Susan Collins is still mostly quiet. Democrats in the state insist there’s no shortage of interest in challenging Collins, the perennially vulnerable but always victorious Republican.
The next phase of California's Resistance

1 day ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner

Demonstrators march in the "No Kings" protest with a U.S. Constitution sign in Los Angeles on June 14, 2025. | Noah Berger/AP NOT GOING ANYWHERE — Saturday’s mass “No Kings” protests are a wrap, but the points of tension animating California’s reenergized resistance to the Trump administration are very much unresolved.
NYC mayoral primary: 1 week to go

1 day ago | politico.com | Jeff Coltin |Nick Reisman |Emily Ngo

With help from Cris Seda Chabrier Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander endorsed each other, just before early voting began in the New York mayor's race. | Jeff Coltin/POLITICO More than 66,000 New Yorkers flocked to early voting sites over the weekend, as the Democratic mayoral primary is being framed as a race with national implications. To a raucous Zohran Mamdani rally attended by more than 2,500 people, Rep.