Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is all for “making government more efficient” — just not the way the federal government is going about it. That was just one of Polis’ pushbacks against the new Trump administration during POLITICO’s Governors Summit on Thursday. Democratic governors across the country have signaled an eagerness to partner with President…
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Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear wants his party to start talking “like real human beings” and get away from what he called “sanitized” language and messaging. “We got to talk to people like real human beings,” Beshear told POLITICO’s Elena Schneider at POLITICO’s Governors Summit on Thursday. “We’ve sanitized different language so significantly that, you…
Governors are scrambling to figure out the most effective way to respond to the seismic changes unleashed in the opening weeks of the Trump administration. The basic calculus is clear: Democrats are searching for ways to thwart the White House’s most sweeping actions, while Republicans are desperate to show they’re fully on board with the…
Delhi assembly elections results are out finally with BJP beating AAP convincingly and securing 48 seats, a two thirds majority, on its own. The balance 22 seats went to AAP. The Congress achieved the dubious…
Donald Trump isn’t just looking to remake the federal government. He has his sights set on the city of Washington, too. In his first few weeks in office, the president has moved to drastically alter the fabric of the nation’s capital. He ordered thousands of Washington-area federal workers to return to the office — some…
The Department of Government Efficiency created its own account on X last November, amassing 4 million followers with a stream of news on contract cancellations and other cuts to the bureaucracy. Elon Musk has posted relentlessly on the social media platform he owns, promoting his own voice on an algorithm he controls. The Democratic National…
