Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
President Donald Trump got the voter identification vote he demanded, and every Republican who showed up backed it. The Senate tally still ended in defeat because 52 votes were not enough to clear a 60-vote procedural wall. Democrats and the chamber’s two voting independents held together, blocking the Senate from even taking up the bill…
Andy Ogles had the president’s endorsement, a seat on two committees, and a Freedom Caucus membership that made him one of the loudest conservatives in the House. He lost anyway, to a retired state agriculture commissioner running on the slogan “Hire a Farmer.” Between those two facts sits a super PAC that was ten months…
President Donald Trump’s second term is being bankrolled by a new class of political investors, a mix of artificial intelligence executives, tech power brokers and families entangled in serious criminal cases. Their checks are large, their interests are specific and their proximity to federal power raises sharper questions than in his first run. I see…