National Politics

Amid the intense focus on the Senate impeachment trial and Monday’s Iowa caucuses in the presidential race, you likely missed this announcement from the Congressional Budget Office: The budget deficit is projected to top $1 trillion in 2020 — and to stay at or above that 13-figure mark for the remainder of the decade. Why

In CNN’s new national poll, 45% of Americans say that President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. That’s down from 50% who said the same in CNN polls in October and November. Which is good news for Trump, right? Trump certainly thinks it is! “Impeachment Poll numbers are starting to drop like

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday slammed Rep. Jeff Van Drew for “putting politics over the Constitution” after sources said the congressman will switch to the Republican Party. “He’s putting politics over the Constitution, he’s putting cuteness over courage, and he’s cutting and running,” Murphy told CNN’s Dana Bash on “Right Now.” “He

Five staffers serving a freshman Democratic congressman resigned on Sunday after sources said he was intending to switch to the Republican Party. The aides to New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew — Javier Gamboa, Edward Kaczmarski, Justin M. O’Leary, Mackenzie Lucas and Caroline Wood — wrote in the letter that they can “no longer in