Outside the Beltway

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

The Federal Budget Deficit passed the $700 Billion mark with three months still to go in the Fiscal Year.

Trump’s self-congratulatory July 4th nonsense bankrupted the District of Columbia’s security fund, now they’re seeking reimbursement.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger. Much like 2014, though, it’s far too early to start writing his political obituary.

A federal appeals court has ruled that DC and Maryland officials have no right to bring the suit.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that will make it easier for Congress to get President Trump’s tax returns.

The government in Hong Kong keeps conceding ground to the protests that have taken hold in the city, but the protesters have more fundamental objections.

A silly story for the silly season.

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

Virginia has finally repealed a dumb and unconstitutional restriction on how bars could advertise Happy Hours.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

The job laid out by the Framers in Article II of the Constitution has expanded a mite.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Senators Warren and Sanders have both proposed plans to forgive student loan debt and make public colleges tuition-free. That’s easier said than done.

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

A new poll finds that public support for abortion rights is increasing, but it also shows growing support for extreme views at both ends of the spectrum.

Hospital phone lines are being overwhelmed.

Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

How much sacrifice in our consumer culture is it worth to save the planet?

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.

While the scope of Federal power has expanded beyond the ken of the Framers, this is not an example.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

There isn’t a lot of legislating going on.

The politics is understandable but the result is damaging to the country.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Bernie Sanders supporters are a wee bit sensitive.

Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.

Despite appearing to have emerged from April’s election as the winner, Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a government. This means that Israel will have to hold new elections in September.

The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

The pro-Brexit Brexit Party and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats both scored big wins in the United Kingdom’s E.U. elections, while the two major parties suffered big losses.