Welcome to the online version of Political officeAn evening newsletter that brings you the latest report and analysis of the NBC News Policy team from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign campaign.
In today’s edition, we dive into the next stages of Capitol Hill after the Chamber has adopted a short -term financing bill with a government financing deadline to approach rapidly. In addition, Steve Kornacki examines the trends of voters who shape the next elections of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, the first major breed of the battlefield in 2025.
Register to receive this newsletter in your reception box every day during the week here.
– Adam Wollner
🗣️ We want to hear from you!
Do you have a question for the NBC News Politics Desk on the Flurry of Trump Administration Moves, Elon Musk and Doge’s Activity, or what is the next step on Capitol Hill?
Send your questions to politiquenewsletter@nbcuni.com And we can respond to it in a future edition of the newsletter.
Pressure concerns the Democrats of the Senate after the Chamber has adopted a financing bill to avoid a closure
President Mike Johnson has passed another major test today in the closely divided house, muscling by a financing bill to avoid a closure of the government.
He puts the Democrats of the Senate in a politically precarious position, with money from the government sent to engage in dry on Friday evening.
The six-month financing bill adopted 217-213, Scott Wong, Kyle Stewart, Sahil Kapur and Rebecca Kaplan of Capitol Hill. Just a republican of the room, the conservative representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against. And only one democrat, representative Jared Golden, who represents a president of the Donald Trump district carried in Maine, voted for this.
The result is a victory for the leaders of the GOP and the White HouseWho does not want to see a closure in the first two months of the new administration and is impatient to switch to the progress of Trump’s agenda on the border, taxes and other political areas.
In the past few days, Trump and his best employees have called on the Republicans to exhort to support the financing bill, have said several familiar sources with calls to NBC News. And before the vote on Tuesday morning, Vice-President JD Vance hung up with Républicains de la Chambre in Capitol to rally support.
The representative Kat Cammack, R-Fla., One of the Republicans who was on the closure, voted for the bill after saying that she had visited the White House earlier during the day.
But the drama is far from over. The Republicans control 53 seats in the Senate, and Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Clearly indicated that he was firmly against the financing bill. This means that at least eight Democratic senators should support him to cross the threshold of 60 votes from the Senate and send it to Trump’s office.
Democratic leaders of the Chamber were firmly against the bill. They castigated the Republicans for writing the bill on a partisan basis and argued that they had given the Trump administration too much discretion on how to spend certain money pots.
The Democrats of the Senate, however, remained a mother. After an unusually long democratic meeting of the Senate Tuesday, the chief of the minority Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., refused to declare his position on the bill, a sign that its members lack consensus on the path to follow.
In public, many Senate Democrats said they wanted to see how the Chamber voted before weighing. But Senator John Fetterman, D-P., Said he would vote for the bill.
“I refuse to burn the village and pretend to save it,” said Fetterman. “I probably do not agree with many facets of this CR, but when the choice is to close the government, I don’t want to get involved.”
Massie Fallout: Trump’s patience seems to be thin with Massie, who also voted against the budget resolution of the GOP of the Chamber last month. Trump said on Truth Social that he “would lead the charge” to find a main opponent to challenge him next year.
But as Melanie Zanona reports, it was not suitable for the representative Chip Roy, R-Texas. During a home -closed -door house in the Gop Caucus on Tuesday morning, Roy said that he had not appreciated Trump’s threat, according to two sources in the room. Roy also called on the Republican leadership to defend Massie, which Johnson was later at a press conference. Learn more →
What to know of the Trump presidency today
- The Department of Education is preparing to fire About half of his workforce.
- The United States will immediately raise a break On intelligence sharing and the curriculum vitae, the supply of security to Ukraine after the Kyiv delegates agreed to accept the Trump administration’s proposal for a 30-day provisional cease-fire with Russia.
- Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said he had agreed to suspend an additional 25% On electricity imports in the United States after conversing with the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lunick, in the wake of Trump’s threats to make 50% threats of steel and aluminum hiking.
- Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parks on an alley To make Trump inspect personally, a few hours after saying on Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Elon Musk and the fall of cars.
- The American Agency for International Development teaches its staff in Washington To shred and burn documentsAccording to an email obtained by NBC News.
- Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said that She had stripped the security authorizations Dozens of former Biden officials and lawyers involved in Trump business.
Voters’ trends shape the first major breed of state of the 2025 battlefield
By Steve Kornacki
In three weeks, we will obtain our first reading of the state of the battlefield of the Political Landscape of the post-2014.
The election of Wisconsin on April 1 for a siege at the Supreme Court of the State is not partisan in the name only. Eminent republican donors and activists are downright behind the conservative Brad Schimel, while the Democrats are with the Liberal Susan Crawford.
The participation rate will be much lower than that of November, and the elections are biased towards the more politically and supported voters, which makes it an imperfect test. But the result will offer at least clues to how political winds could move in what is undoubtedly the first American swing state.
There are a few key models and trends that allowed President Donald Trump to return the state in November which will be under the microscope next month.
Where the Republicans have made gains
Eight of the 10 counties where Trump improved the most of his performance from the 2020 elections in the southwest part of the State, in what is called the “zone without drift” (a nod to the unique topography which results from the lack of glacial coverage more than 10,000 years ago).
Politically, it represents an opportunity for significant growth for the GOP, having remained faithful to the Democrats until more recently than the other small cities and rural regions of the State. It was Trump’s emergence in 2016 that sparked the region’s movement to the GOP.
Does this represent a partisan realignment which is underway and which will allow the Republicans to create an even more important advantage here in the future? Or is it more temporary and specific to Trump, offering Democrats a chance to stabilize and improve their performance without Trump on the ballot? In particular, the area returned to its democratic roots in recent races of the Supreme Court of the State.
Where Democrats are in growth mode
Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha’s “Wow” counties outside of Milwaukee have always been the largest state bank for republican candidates, and all of them favored Trump by two figures last year. But the advantage of the GOP fell.
GOP’s declines correspond here to the national trend of the latest generation of very educated white suburbs, of professional class, losing their previous republican allegiance – which has radically accelerated the emergence of Trump.
Even during the loss of the state on the ground, the Democrats have modestly improved their performances in the counties of Wow last November. In Ozaukee and Waukesha, Harris won a higher share of the vote than any candidate for the Democratic presidential election from Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
The fact that democratic gains were particularly striking in Ozaukee is not a surprise. Outside the Dane County (home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison), he has the highest concentration of white voters and has done college studies in the state.
Last November, the Democrats rely on even more important gains in the counties of Wow, which could have pushed Harris on the top of the state. However, Democrats see an opportunity to make new progress here and cement them, the Republicans hoping to stop their slide without Trump at the top of their ticket.
🗞️ The other best stories today
- 📉 Take stock: Trump previously underlined the stock market as a key indicator of the economic success of his administration. Now, while the markets plunge, it changes its air. Learn more →
- 📉 Take stock, continued: Speaking of, the S&P 500 did not escape another day of losses on Tuesday in the middle of a negotiation session of roller coaster. Learn more →
- 🗳️ He runs: Lieutenant-Governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist, launched his campaign for the governor, joining a growing democratic primary in a closely divided battlefield. Learn more →
- 🗳️ She runs: The former Democratic representative Katie Porter announced that she was presented to the post of Governor of California, but a potential offer from the former vice-president Kamala Harris is looming. Learn more →
- 🌏 If it’s Tuesday: Greenland has its parliamentary elections, a test for the independence of the territory while Trump aims to acquire it. Learn more →
It’s all of the political bureau for the moment. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.
If you have comments – tastes or don’t like – send us an email to politiquenewsletter@nbcuni.com
And if you’re a fan, please share with everyone and anyone. They can register here.