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Supreme Court allows Trump mass layoffs to move forward

The order directed the Office of Management and Budget to create a 4 to 1 departure to hiring ratio across the federal government and directed federal agencies to initiate "large scale reductions in force

Roll Call goes platinum

More than a year before Roll Call started publishing, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in the House gallery on March 1, 1954, injuring five members of the House.

Amid change, Roll Call endures

We were spending more time on MySpace than LinkedIn, and Season 1 of "The Apprentice" hadn’t aired yet. While my role at Roll Call has evolved over the years, there have been a few consistent themes.

Senators: It’s time to reclaim your relevance

And so it was last month with House passage, by a vote of 215-214, of HR 1, "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act," with all the usual self-congratulatory huzzahs without a hint of awareness of the historical

Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018

But Trump and Republicans stuck with immigration as their No. 1 issue, opening the door for Democrats to raise the specter of heath care instead, which they did effectively. 

Gabe Evans still wears his police boots in Congress

About 1 in 4 people rely on Medicaid in his district, which extends north from the suburbs of Denver, and he’ll have to ward off Democratic attacks as one of the House’s most vulnerable members.

Trump is running for reelection (right now)

He hosted or attended $1 million-a-head fundraisers for MAGA Inc., a super PAC that supports him, in March and April, as part of an effort to raise as much as $500 million this summer to "push his agenda

The economic challenge facing Republicans

These crucial voters went from favoring Republicans by 13 points last November, to even among both parties, with their preference for Democrats also dropping 1 point.Â