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The request mostly includes money for the Pentagon, with $67 billion going toward replenishing the military's stocks of munitions and the cost of sending so many forces to the Middle East.
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Tuesday's primary victories for a slate of leftist candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani foretell bigger battles for a Democratic Party trying to win back power nationally.
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Hours before visiting the Capitol, the president scrapped plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill, railing against "bad Republicans" for resisting his demands to ram through new voting restrictions.
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FEMA has given cities and states $250 million to protect the World Cup from airborne threats. That equipment will remain in place after the tournament.
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Vice President J.D. Vance isn't the only one being trotted out to sell an unpopular deal.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani may be the new kingmaker of New York City politics. In a sweeping affirmation of his affordability-focused agenda, all three congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani in a set of contested Democratic primary elections declared victory Tuesday night. Manhattan and the Bronx's Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brooklyn's Claire Valdez and Brad Lander were all joined on the campaign trail by the progressive NYC mayor in the weeks leading up to election night. Like Mamdani, Avila Chevalier and Valdez are members of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which backed their campaigns.
We speak to John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of the New York City local independent newspaper The Indypendent, about the insurgent left of the Democratic Party and the potential national ramifications of the Zohran-DSA machine. The races also functioned as a referendum on the growing split in the Democratic Party over Israel/Palestine. While the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC funneled an estimated $50 million into their opponents' campaigns, Valdez, Avila Chevalier and Lander refused to take any funding from pro-Israel groups and consistently emphasized their support of efforts to restrict U.S. military aid for Israel. "If you ignore the Palestinian cause of Palestinian liberation, you do so at your own peril," says Tarleton.
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