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There is growing support for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office, but what is the 25th Amendment, and how would the removal process work? The Daily is fighting for democracy. Please join us by becoming a subscriber. When the 25th Amendment is referred to, what people mean is Article 4, which states:Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal office...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thedailypoliticususa.com Our live video today covered how Democrats are winning on healthcare. I’d appreciate it if you would check it out. If you want to watch the entire video, please consider becoming a subscriber. It is not an exaggeration to suggest that when Democrats decided to make healthcare the central focus of the Republi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thedailypoliticususa.com The United States has a long history of presidential scandals. No president can match Donald Trump in sheer number of scandals, but Trump doesn’t just have quantity, he also has what seems like it is the worst presidential scandal in US history. Most presidents get themselves in trouble by trying to cover up...

Sharp-eyed readers and viewers have spotted the bias. One of the first questions that Democrats get when asked about a potential government shutdown is why won’t Democrats compromise with Republicans. The answer is that Republicans are in control of the entire federal government, and it is their job to compromise with Democrats if they want to keep the government open. The Daily is a reader-suppor...

The Daily is outside the beltway journalism for the people. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. Two things can be true at the same time. The shooting of Charlie Kirk was a horrible act of political violence that has no place in society, and the United States has a problem with the extremist right-wing rhetoric, which Kirk also engaged in. Sarah Jones appeared on Chew’s Vi...

The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism that is fighting for democracy. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. Donald Trump seems to be doing everything that he can to distract people from the failing economy and rising prices, but what if economic decline isn’t a bug, but an intended feature of Trump’s presidency? Sarah Jones was on Deadline DC with Brad Bannon and she connected rising p...

Please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. The video above is this week’s live chat with the readers. Chats happen each Wednesday at 2 PM ET. Give the video above a watch and consider joining us each Wednesday. The terrible jobs numbers released on Friday were the cherry on top of a lousy week for the administration. The week opened with Trump vanishing and the White House rele...

The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism that is for the people and supported by the people. You can support us by becoming a subscriber. Donald Trump wants to cast himself as a crime fighter, but it is clear that the president with 34 felony convictions to his name is only interested in certain types of crime that he views as politically beneficial. Trump has been trying to distract from the E...

Please support the independent journalism of The Daily by becoming a subscriber. A criminal who rebrands himself as a crimefighter might not be serious about fighting crime. The point that Trump is a person who commits crimes and also claims to be fighting crime was pointed out in our most recent live chat, which you can view in the video above. Republicans wasted no time trying to move the conver...

The Daily is proud independent journalism that needs your help. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. The video above is this week’s live chat with our readers, where we talk about Democrats fighting back, Texas Democrats, and California redistricting. If you like what you see, please join our upcoming chat next week. This is getting really old. That is the first thought that crossed m...

The Daily is fighting the oligarchs with outside the Beltway journalism. Please help us by becoming a subscriber. The Trump/Putin meeting turned out no differently than any of the other Trump/Putin meetings. It was shrouded in secrecy and ended with Trump showing his subservience to the Russian dictator. During her latest appearance on Chew’s Views, Sarah Jones brought up some key points. Sarah sa...

Please support The Daily by becoming a subscriber. In the video above, I talk about JD Vance’s attempt to make the Epstein scandal go away. It has been clear for a while now that without the propping up by Donald Trump, JD Vance wouldn’t have won the Ohio Republican Senate primary and the general election. Without Trump, Vance wouldn’t be vice president. Anytime JD Vance has been put on the nation...

Please support The Daily and the fight for democracy by becoming a subscriber. This is getting embarrassing . In the video above, I break down the Speaker of the Texas House’s reply to Democrats who left the state to deny Republicans a quorum to pass a new gerrymandered congressional district map of the state. The Democratic Party is supporting the Texas Democrats, but they need to be doing more....

The Daily is independent media that needs your help. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Republicans have used many tools to legally reshape the electorate to benefit themselves. Everything from restrictive voting laws to voter suppression efforts to gerrymandering has become part of the GOP's electoral manipulation toolbox. After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, the Republican Party...

The Daily needs your help to continue to survive as independent media. You can help us by becoming a subscriber. When Donald Trump returned to the United States from Scotland, it became obvious. Instead of getting front and center in front of the cameras, it almost looked as if Trump was trying to hide behind a pillar and shout his answers to reporters from a distance. Video:Trump also appeared to...

The Daily needs your help. Support us by subscribing. In the video above, we dig deeper into Trump’s meltdown in Scotland. It would be easy to dismiss it, as more Trump crazy, but there is more happening than the usual. The first sinister part of this video was the racism, as Trump just tries to get Europe to also deport anybody who isn't white. You could miss that really easily if you just let it...

The Daily needs your help. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. Could there really have been any other ending for Trump? A man whose constant companions have been failure and scandal for his entire adult life has now seen both of his defining traits combine together in spectacular fashion within six months of returning back to the White House. Donald Trump never had a superpower. The idea t...

Please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. Another dot was connected on Monday, as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told reporters that he would not be allowing a vote on a resolution urging the release of the Epstein files before the House goes on summer recess for the month of August. Johnson said there would be no vote because the House and Trump are on the same page:Here's...

The Daily is outside the Beltway news for the people. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. In the case of Jeffrey Epstein and the fallout that continues to follow Donald Trump, the crime really is worse than the cover-up. The political class is doing what it always does by talking about the political impact of the Epstein files situation, but what is being overlooked is wh...

Please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. Trump responded to Putin playing him and showing no sign of wanting peace by threatening him with tariffs. Trump’s DHS Secretary is being called incompetent, and it is being suggested that her decisions caused the deaths of children in Texas. Economists are warning that prices are going to begin to rise this summer as non-tariffed inve...

If you find our work to be essential and of value, please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. The other shoes are beginning to drop, and it looks like House Republicans are looking for an off-ramp from the unpopular Medicaid cuts in the reconciliation bill. Recently, Politico reported: For instance, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) — who ultimately voted for the sweeping domestic polic...

The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism for the people. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. Donald Trump’s allies before he returned to the White House promised a campaign of shock and awe, but we are almost six months into the second Trump presidency and what has been playing out is a tug of war where Trump pretends that his victory against American democracy is a fo...

Please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. Congressional majorities that sense their time in power might be fleeting all share a similar habit. They think that they can defeat the looming wrath of the voters by delaying the unpopular parts of major legislation. The cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in the “Big Beautiful Bill” are extremely unpopular, so Republicans d...

The Daily is journalism for the people, so please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. The pretense of destroying Iran’s nuclear capability has been exposed as a farce, as Donald Trump announced on his social media platform that a ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Iran. Trump posted:CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that th...

The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism about the issues that you care about the most, so please consider becoming a subscriber. For a decade, Trump has been claiming to be an anti-war candidate. For example, in 2019, Trump posted on Twitter, “Turkey has been planning to attack the Kurds for a long time. They have been fighting forever.. We have no soldiers or Military anywhere near the attack...