As the 2026 midterms loom, voters are restless and eager to penalize those in power. Every election starting with 2006, with the exception of 2012, has been a change election.

The Republican-led House narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill late early Thursday morning, sending the package to the Senate where it is likely to be revised.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and the White House are betting that the bill full of President Trump’s priorities is so big — and so “beautiful,” at least in the eyes of the president — that it