Prospect

With Medicaid at risk, state officials could help put the brakes on DOGE and the chaos generated in Washington, but only with some decisive pushback.

America needs a true opposition party.

Today on TAP: The big media outlets do themselves no favor by trying appeasement.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

Before Elon Musk can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball.

When Biden’s NLRB began to restore workers’ rights, the world’s richest men moved to shut down the NLRB altogether.

The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.

Today on TAP: As with Trump himself, our relationships are now based on others’ submission to our power, not admiration of our character.

With the rightful concern about collapsing the U.S. payment system, we’ve lost sight of the illegality happening in real time: presidential impoundment of funds for disfavored causes.

The federal government relies on millions of contract workers who have minimal job protections.

All work at the agency has been shut down indefinitely.

The attempted hostile takeover of the U.S. government by Trump and Musk is beginning to hit a wall. Let’s see if the wall holds.

Making vouchers universal in D.C. would be universally unpopular, but there’s nothing to stop the GOP.

Giving DOGE access to the Treasury Department’s payment system violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and IRS statutes, three plaintiffs allege.

After a slow start, Democrats begin to resist the government takeover.

The shadow president wants total secrecy around his seizure of government agencies.

Today on TAP: Trump epitomizes the deadly combination of arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Will his gratuitous trade war be his first major reverse?

A Q&A with Nathan Tankus on what it means for Elon Musk’s forces to have commandeered some level of control of the U.S. payment system.

An unelected billionaire is seizing control of the federal government.

Voters want big changes from Biden’s failed policies, but many are not in Trump’s plan.