By Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology.

Last week I went down to Washington to speak to Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, after he gave a speech marking Donald Trump’s calamitous first 100 days in office.At a time when many Democrats feel leaderless, Jeffries, usually a relentlessly on-message inside operator, had been step...

Last week, Trump hyped a coming announcement that was “as big as it gets.” And on Sunday evening, he teed up the order in a Truth Social post, writing that he would link US drug prices to those in peer countries under a “most favored nation” pricing model — a policy he attempted unsucce...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.The order calls on the health departm...

April is Financial Literacy Month and to celebrate, I am answering some of your questions.Q: Can President Donald Trump Fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell?The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 to make the American banking system more stable. Banking panics had occurred of...

Politics By Darius TahirMay 5, 2025 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News Former agency head on preserving Social Security Former agency head on preserving Social Security 05:52Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dea...

President Donald Trump played down the fears of his critics — from the potential harms of a recession to worries about rising prices due to his tariffs to the possibility that he would seek a constitutionally forbidden third term — in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Pres...

David Edwards Senior Editor David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and previously managed the network infrastructure for the North Carolina Dep...