By Colby Etherton Lately, President Biden has been hitting the campaign trail emphasizing “Bidenomics†and how it’s helped the country make progress against inflation, unemployment, moving past the pandemic, and more. It’s a moniker similar to “Reaganomics†that is meant to be a marketing tool, encompassing all of Biden’s accomplishments as he makes appearances across

By Colby Etherton With a presidential election on the horizon next year, it can be easy to forget that the Senate, House of Representatives, and local races are just as integral in shaping policy. After the unexpected over-performance of Democrats in the 2022 midterms when Democrats gained a seat in the Senate, a mythos that

By Colby Etherton On May 31, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines by a margin of 314 to 117 to raise the debt ceiling. For the past few months, the looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling has been one of the most urgent matters before Congress. Negotiations stalled between President

By Colby Etherton On April 25, President Joe Biden announced his intent to run for reelection. It was a decision that was widely expected, and likely affirmed by a string of legislative wins over the course of his term and the unexpected performance Democrats had in the midterms, increasing their numbers in the Senate and

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: On Thursday, March 30, four words echoed across the country, from sea to shining sea: “It’s about damn time.†It wasn’t a mass sing-along to a Lizzo song, but was the moment we learned that maybe we really are a nation of laws. We, as a democracy, had begun to wonder

By Colby Etherton  For months, Democrats and Republicans have clashed over raising the debt ceiling. It is estimated that the Treasury Department will have exhausted its means for the government to pay its bills on time by as early as July, and so far there is no compromise. Republicans seek to push Democrats to agree

By Colby Etherton Last month, on February 7, 2023, President Joe Biden gave his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. His address largely centered on his accomplishments in his first two years in office, particularly bipartisan pieces of legislation such as the infrastructure package that was signed into law

By Colby Etherton Over the past few weeks, revelations that classified government documents were found at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in a private office of his in Washington D.C., have raised questions about Biden’s handling of classified documents that many have compared to the infamous FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last August. There

By Colby Etherton On January 3, 2023, the 118th Congress was sworn in. While Democrats maintained and even improved upon their lead in the Senate, they did narrowly lose the House to Republicans — something that was expected, but by a smaller margin than most were anticipating. The House currently stands at 222 seats for

By Colby Etherton For months, the narrative on the midterms was that Democrats were facing an inevitable shellacking. Not just because of historical precedent (which points to how rare it is for Presidents to gain seats in Congress during their first midterm cycle, with few exceptions — such as Republicans expanding on their majority in