Many eyebrows were raised by reports of a quiet word from the White House to the Justice Department concerning the pace of litigation aimed at restricting or even outlawing distribution of abortion pills. The word was “wait:”
The White House has instructed the Justice Department to move slowly on any abortion-related actions ahead of the midterm elections, The Washington Sun has learned.

In a series of discussions, senior White House officials, led by White House chief of staff Susan Wiles, directly delivered the message to Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to a senior administration official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Wiles suggested that an aggressive approach on abortion would generate unwanted attention, something the officials worried could alienate voters ahead of the November elections.
This is a familiar bit of advice from Team Trump to Republicans, who might otherwise bend to the wishes of the anti-abortion activists who make up an important part of the GOP/MAGA base. After all, in the eyes of said activists, every abortion is a homicide and stopping this “Holocaust” is essentially why they are in politics. But Trump himself famously blamed anti-abortion zealotry for GOP under-performance in the 2022 midterms, and ordered Republicans to put their menacing plans for banning abortion on the back burner during his 2024 comeback. It’s no surprise the same directive has been reimposed in 2026.
But that’s far from the only controversial or flat-out unpopular agenda item that Trump and his party are trying to shield from the public until midterm voting is over. Here are some others:

1.Annihilating or surrendering to Iran
Anyone who claims to discern a predictable end-game for Trump’s war of choice with Iran is either foolish or clairvoyant. But it has mystified many observers that the president is willing to handicap his party with an on-again, off-again no-win Forever War that a growing majority of voters do not like. Trump has made it clear that he expects the war to end right after the midterms, without addressing exactly how that will happen.
The political problem for Trump that may make him reluctant to end the war before Election Day is that any resolution is likely to make his handling of Iran more prominent and less popular than ever. He has let us know repeatedly that he’s considering an annihilation of the country, which will horrify war opponents. But he has also behaved as though a capitulation to Iran’s peace terms is where this is headed. That will enrage both war opponents and those who have backed a tough approach to Iran. Better, perhaps, to equivocate until voters have voted.

2.Throwing money we don’t have at the Pentagon
Big fights in Congress over government funding have been punted by Republicans with apparent complicity from the White House. In part that’s because GOP fiscal hawks are increasingly horrified by the red ink already spilled since Trump returned to power (with the hawks’ own blessing, of course, contingent on promises to restrain spending later). They viscerally dislike the $1.5 trillion worth of borrowed money he has requested the Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War.” But you don’t have to be a small-government conservative to dislike a gigantic bonanza for the Pentagon: a significant chunk of the new money will pay for past and future costs associated with the unpopular Iran War.
In terms of how the money might be secured, two specific battles have been deferred until after the midterms. A stopgap spending bill cleared Congress in August; it avoided, or at least delayed, a possible government shutdown. Republican congressional leaders also punted on a third budget reconciliation bill that might have given the Pentagon what it wanted on a party-line vote that Democrats could not block with a filibuster. Both these collisions would have been deeply unsettling had the GOP moved ahead with them as originally scheduled.
3. Hammering the social safety net again
Another likely component of the Reconciliation 3.0 bill that Republicans considered but then delayed was a new set of deep cuts in safety-net programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Such cuts (likely presented as attacks on alleged “fraud”) are regularly demanded by House Freedom Caucus types who favor paring back the “welfare state” as an end in itself, and also view major domestic spending reductions as a way to pay for more defense spending and tax cuts.
The health care and nutrition cuts contained in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act have already become a big political problem for vulnerable Republican candidates this year.

4. Blowing up voting rights
Yet another likely element of Reconciliation 3.0 is a down payment on the national proof-of-citizenship test for voter registration that Trump has been relentlessly promoting via his stalled SAVE America Act. The more people learn about this bill and the onerous paperwork burdens it would impose, the less popular it is. And had Republicans agreed to enact it before the midterms, it could have partially backfired by angering older and poorer voters who didn’t have the documentation the bill would require. On another front, several southern states delayed racial gerrymanders designed to reduce Black Democratic representation in Congress and state legislatures out of fear that such steps might mobilize Black voters against the GOP. After the midterms, they’ll likely move ahead.
5.Expanding the imperial presidency
In important respects, the federal courts have stalled the Trump administration’s ambitious project to expand presidential powers beyond their previously understood constitutional limits, and occasionally Republicans in Congress have prevailed on the White House to move a bit more cautiously. If the GOP loses one or both congressional chambers and with it the right to pass party-line legislation that Democrats cannot filibuster, then the lame-duck session in November will be a last chance for congressionally sanctioned presidential power-grabs while Trump is in office. Worse yet, the knowledge that Trump will no longer have Congress under his thumb will encourage even greater White House brinkmanship on challenging congressional prerogatives.
Putting off extreme power grabs avoids feeding the argument that Democratic control of Congress is necessary to provide some counter-balance to Trump’s rapacious authoritarian tendencies. Once voters have voted, he may well feel no further need for accountability to anyone other than the face he sees in the gilded mirrors of the White House.

>>1541009
Okay, so they’re hiding away 96% of their agenda.

>>1541011
I hope the next president ends the war with Iran and in the peace deal they send Donald Trump and Pete Hesgeth to Tehran so they can do what they like with them

>>1541013
What voting rights are being threatened?

>>1541107
Are you nuts? Seriously...

>>1541228
Can you put the right into words?
The right to vote without providing proof-of-citizenship?

This was the popular stuff?!?

>>1541229
>The right to vote without providing proof-of-citizenship?
That's called "the right to vote". The second part is already putting conditions on it.

>>1541235
https://www.idea.int/news/special-voting-arrangements-svas-europe-country-postal-early-mobile-and-proxy-arrangements
Look at this map of europe.
https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/Is_in_country_postal_voting_available.png
The countries that don't allow postal voting are in orange. Are all of their voting rights threatened?

>>1541236
>The countries that don't allow postal voting are in orange. Are all of their voting rights threatened?
France has universal registration, proxy voting, and elections are held on Sundays

>>1541236
>Look at this map of europe.
I don't need to look at a map of countries who have completely different voting systems to know that suddenly requiring proof of citizenship in US elections is an attempt to disenfranchise a good part of the population.

>>1541229
We already prove our identity in the elections. It's not that you have to prove your citizenship, it's that you have to get the special Trump registered identification card to be able to vote.

Americans have been voting for a very long time and it's only for the last 6 years that the GOP is going insane saying voting is corrupted.

It's funny that they say that when Musk and feel openly want to sidestep elections through technology.

>>1541229
Please. The real ID was created because Republicans complained about fraud and illegals in elections before. Now they're complaining about it again so we have to get yet a new ID and even after that they'll want .one another one.

>>1541239
My question is have all those countries in orange already been disenfranchised, because their european voting system is entirely different.

>>1541246
>>1541250
if republicans win the midterm I want to start seeing democrats jump off roofs in protest. you should join them.

>>1541252
When Republicans lose the midterm I want to see you here, whining, complaining, and bitching over lies and misinformation like you always do.
You're our precious lolcow and we'll hunt you down if you ever stop dancing for us, faggot

>>1541253
its fine we all know the midterms would be rigged in that case and its fine for riots to happen like the antifa people did during floyd.
democrat businesses deserve to be torched and every public democrat supporter will have their homes egged for election fraud.

>>1541251
>My question is have all those countries in orange already been disenfranchised, because their european voting system is entirely different.
Fish existing doesn't mean removing someone's legs doesn't make it more difficult for them to get around.

Stop being obtuse.

>>1541254
Gop wants violence and death, "liggers" want change in leadership.

Big surprise.

>>1541254
How did you get like this?

>>1541257
>>1541258
>>gop doing what democrats are doing
>> NOOOOOOO ONLY WE CAN DO THAT
I wish trump was actual hitler you love screeching about it so much I want to see more ICE fundings and for him to start using FBI resources to round up bluesky and rddt dissenters and sending them to the gallows.
We can replace China's labor by just stripping the rights from all domestic terrorists and sending to a labor camp for life.

>>1541259
>ctrl-f: hitler
>0 results
???

>>1541260
They're a drug addicted, non-english shill who thinks they're trolling you.
Do not engage.

>>1541264
self-projecting esl democrat shill, they should legalize cannibalism in the prisons so they can feed you the scraps of other democrats.
trump is a failure for not going far enough he should've eliminated your type already

Boring TDS propaganda. Let's talk about what liggerals are concealing before the midterms

Liggerals are concealing that they're going to legalize non-felony crimes

Liggerals are concealing that they're trying to steal our guns

Liggerals are concealing that they want to flood the US with infinite Mexicans and muslims

Liggerals are concealing that they're going to change laws to force parents to go along with gender reassignment nonsense and give liggeral owned schools unilateral power in that decision making

Liggerals are concealing they want to do away private property and inject communism into the country

Liggerals are concealing that are going to completely defund our police departments and border security apparatus

Liggerals are concealing that they want to take the Bible out of the American way of life

Liggerals are concealing that they want to send your tax payer dollars directly to Ukraine to murder innocent Russian native citizens of Crimea, Luhansk and Donbas

Liggerals are concealing that they want to double your taxes to fund social programs for browns and trannies

Liggerals are concealing that their plan for """"solving"""" the Iran situation is complete and total surrender in an attempt to regain (((((normal Strait operations)))), giving Iran hundreds of billions of dollars and permission to seek nukes that WILL drop on American cities

Liggerals are concealing that, eventually, they want to exterminate white people

Obviously there is much more evil heinous shit they're planning, this is just a small list off the top of my head. Fuck liggeralism. MAGA 2028

>>1541268
Obviously the last one listed is the worst as all but it can't be stated enough that one about Iran. They want the fastest way out of the war we are winning, because they want to take advantage of the temporary pain Americans are feeling now to pretend they're the only ones that can fix a problem that doesn't actually exist. How are they going to resolve the situation? They'll sign the very first deal Iran offers them. Billions and billions of dollars, removal of sanctions, permission to fund proxies, ballistic missile research AND NUKES. fucking NUKES. A VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IS A VOTE NUKES DROPPING ON AMERICAN CITIES WITHIN 5 YEARS.

do you fucking understand how important that is? Read very carefully. Iranian nukes will drop on American cities within 5 years of a democratic victory. Nukes. On American cities. Millions and millions dead. A nuclear Holocaust. That is what will happen if you vote Democrat next month.

Me? I'm not going to vote for that. I'm going to vote for victory. I'm going to vote MAGA.

>>1541246
>We already prove our identity in the elections
How?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Map_of_US_Voter_ID_Laws_by_State.svg
All the states in gray have no requirement for voter ID

>>1541268
nobody believes any of that anymore, get better material

>>1541268
You're boring.

>>1541272
Which of those states don't have rigorous checks on voter registration? (protip: we both know it's 0)

>>1541414
Checking registration against what?

>>1541491
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not, bravo. You know they have this thing called a census, right?

>>1541493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMU2oMJNHU
So if you have someone's name and address you can get their ballot?
Like James O'keefe could walk in say he was Marshall Mathers, say he has no picture ID or Photo ID and get Eminem's ballot?

>>1541500
>So if you have someone's name and address you can get their ballot?
No. Stop pretending you're retarded. It's tiresome.

>>1541510
Okay, so what are they checking against the census in those states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Map_of_US_Voter_ID_Laws_by_State.svg
You said the states in gray are checking registration against the census, but if you have no voter ID like James Okeefe in that video, what are they checking?

>>1541510
They were comprehensively BTFO on the whole argument during the AZ recount

I'm not sure whats sadder, that the esl shill is genuinely retarded and thinks voting in the US is safe, or that they know they're full of shit and are forcing themselves to post brainrot arguments on a dead board

>>1541511
>Okay, so what are they checking against the census in those states?
The size of your mom's vagina.

>>1541268
do you have any sources for any of those? some pretty wild claims there

>>1541500
So O'Keefe was prosecuted for this right, or is this just another fake video he created for clicks?

>>1541563
Undercover journalists don't generally get charged for exposing security flaws.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/report-undercover-agents-snuck-fake-bombs-weapons-through-tsa/83-223928986
Like it's a common trope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAdyryNAFJM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/01/19/a-tv-crew-tried-to-sneak-a-fake-bomb-through-airport-security-it-didnt-work/
Reporters can try sneaking fake bombs past airport security. They don't generally get prosecuted and sent to jail for multiple years for the crime of doing their job

>>1541563
Why are you ignoring the question
What are they checking against if there's no requirements for voter ID?