• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed new congressional district maps designed to strip Democrats of additional House seats in the state.
• The redistricting effort is part of a broader coast-to-coast battle over legislative boundaries ahead of the 2026 midterms, with competing proposals from both parties.
• In Virginia, voters narrowly backed a Democratic remap that threatens several Republican incumbents, demonstrating the high stakes of redistricting.
• Republikan menggunakan manuver legislatif yang akan melewati filibuster Senat untuk mengirimkan miliaran dolar kepada Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), menurut laporan POLITICO dari Washington pada 1 Mei 2026.
• Langkah ini dimaksudkan untuk memperkuat kapasitas penegakan hukum ICE di tengah fokus Presiden Trump untuk mempertahankan mayoritas Republik di House dalam pemilu sela mendatang, dan terjadi saat pemerintah menghadapi kritik atas kebijakan perbatasan dan deportasi.
• Para kritikus memperingatkan bahwa pendekatan ini dapat mempermanenkan penegakan hukum imigrasi yang sangat restriktif selama bertahun-tahun, sementara GOP berargumen bahwa hal itu akan meningkatkan keamanan dan menjaga pemerintah agar tetap memegang janji kampanyenya.
Pemungutan suara dilakukan saat tenggat 60 hari mendekat, dengan dua GOP mendukung pembatasan dan perselisihan mengenai apakah gencatan senjata menjeda waktu
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Senate yang dipimpin Republican pada hari Kamis kembali memblokir upaya Democrat untuk menghentikan perang Donald Trump di Iran, menolak war powers resolution yang akan membatasi konflik sampai Congress memberikan otorisasi tindakan militer lebih lanjut.
Hasil pemungutan suara menunjukkan 47-50, dengan dua Republicans – Susan Collins, senator Maine, dan Rand Paul, dari Kentucky – memberikan suara setuju dan satu Democrat – John Fetterman, dari Pennsylvania – menentangnya.
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Keputusan tersebut memberi wewenang kepada pembuat peta di negara bagian Republikan untuk memecah distrik menjadi beberapa bagian dan melenyapkan suara pemilih hingga tidak berarti. Voting Rights Act adalah sebuah pakta perdamaian politik yang ditulis dengan darah John Lewis. Keputusan Callais v Landry oleh Mahkamah Agung AS, yang mengesampingkan sebagian besar bagian 2 dari Voting Rights Act, menghapus darah tersebut dari sejarah, bersama dengan darah ribuan warga Amerika lainnya yang melawan supremasi kulit putih segregasionis di tempat makan, stasiun bus, dan pengadilan demi kesetaraan politik. Baca selengkapnya...
Redrawn map could flip up to five seats to Republicans as Trump’s party seeks to keep control of CongressThe US supreme court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the US House of Representatives, as Donald Trump’s party seeks to keep control of Congress in the November congressional elections.The move by the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, formalizes an interim decision it made in December to revive the map of US House districts in Texas. Continue reading...
Bill clears 50–48 vote to boost ICE and CBP funding as Democrats oppose and shutdown continuesUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailSenate Republicans on Thursday approved a plan to fund Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants for the remainder of his term and pave the way for an end to the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The budget resolution adopted along a near party line vote in the early morning hours sets the stage for Congress to craft legislation allocating as much as $140b to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), two agencies at the forefront of Trump’s mass deportation agenda that have been without funding since mid-February, when the DHS shutdown began. Continue reading...
Republicans deploy measure known as budget reconciliation to push through plan without backing from Democrats during lengthy late-night voteHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.The Senate voted to adopt a $70bn budget plan to fund ICE and Border Patrol as part of a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).We have a multistep process ahead of us, but at the end Republicans will have helped ensure that America’s borders are secure and prevented Democrats from defunding these important agencies.Instead of pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol, Republicans should be working with Democrats to lower out-of-pocket costs.The Pentagon announced, without explanation, that “Secretary of the Navy John C Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately”. The head of the US navy, which is now enforcing a wartime blockade of Iranian ports, was replaced by a former Maga political candidate, Hung Cao, now acting secretary of the navy.The surprise announcement brought renewed attention to Cao’s 2023 comments that that “witchcraft” had “taken over” Monterey, California.Virginia’s attorney general, Jay Jones, promised to appeal an injunction issued by a circuit court judge that temporarily blocks the state from certifying the results of the Tuesday’s redistricting referendum.As jet fuel prices spike amid the ongoing energy crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s war on Iran, two Republican senators, Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, denounced a proposed US government bailout of budget carrier Spirit Airlines.Representative David Scott, a Democrat from Georgia, has died at the age of 80. He is the fifth member of Congress to die in office within the last year. Continue reading...
• House Republicans openly questioned President Donald Trump's mid-decade redistricting strategy on Wednesday, following a Democratic victory in Virginia on Tuesday that threatens the GOP's slim House majority.
• The Virginia vote paves the way for as many as four Republican seats to be lost, intensifying GOP concerns about the redistricting war Trump sparked.
• Republican lawmakers are now expressing misgivings about the strategy, signaling potential fractures within the party over Trump's aggressive electoral positioning ahead of the November midterms.
Reuters-Ipsos, AP-NORC and NBC polls show approval in mid-30s, with economy, Iran and immigration concernsUS politics live – latest updatesA trio of political polls indicate public approval of Donald Trump’s management of the US economy, immigration and the Iran conflict is slipping, flashing warning lights for Trump-aligned Republican candidates with six months to go until the US midterm elections.Polls by Reuters-Ipsos poll, Strength in Numbers-Verasight and AP-NORC had the president’s approval rating hovering in the mid-30s, at 36%, 35% and 33% respectively, which are near his lowest numbers. Continue reading...
