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2025 U.S. Midterms Update: Full-Year Politics, Economy, Polls, and Key Events (Jan–Dec 2025) – DrWeb’s Domain
2025 U.S. Midterms Update: Full-Year Politics, Economy, Polls, and Key Events (Jan–Dec 2025)
Editor’s Note: This consolidated 2025 annual report bridges the gap between the August 2025 and February 2026 monthly updates. I was assisted in this report by ChatGPT. –DrWeb
Major Political Events in 2025
President Donald Trump’s second term began on January 20, 2025, with a wave of executive actions that set the tone for the year. Among the first moves were pardons for more than 1,500 individuals charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol attack, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, and the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk.
Trump also renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and issued an executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, which was quickly blocked by a federal judge. The administration re‑designated the Yemeni Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization and expanded ICE’s authority to conduct immigration arrests at schools, hospitals, and public gatherings.
Throughout the year, Trump’s agenda centered on rolling back Biden‑era regulations, shrinking the federal workforce, and using tariffs and tax cuts as core economic tools. By late 2025, the U.S. experienced negative net migration for the first time in at least 50 years, reflecting the impact of the administration’s immigration policies.
Economy and Social Issues
The Trump administration pushed through additional tax cuts and pro‑crypto policies that benefited allies and family members, while continuing to reduce the size of the federal workforce. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) oversaw large‑scale layoffs and hiring freezes across multiple agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which saw its grant‑review and research activities severely curtailed.
Although inflation had cooled from the 2021–2023 surge, many voters continued to feel that the economy was difficult and expensive, and Trump’s sweeping tariffs were widely blamed for raising prices. Off‑year elections in November 2025 showed Democrats gaining ground in Virginia and New Jersey by focusing on affordability and economic concerns, signaling that the economy would be a central issue in the 2026 midterms.
Domestically, the year saw multiple mass shootings, including at Antioch High School in Nashville and a warehouse in New Albany, Ohio. Federal and state responses to gun violence remained highly polarized, and gun‑control advocates pointed to the shootings as evidence of policy failure.
Trump Approval and 2026 Midterm Polling Trends
Nationally, President Trump’s approval rating began 2025 around 48% and gradually declined over the course of the year, dipping to roughly 41% by October before recovering slightly to about 43% by December. Net approval remained negative throughout 2025, reflecting persistent dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy and immigration.
By late 2025, national polls showed Democrats with a double‑digit lead on the generic congressional ballot for House races, suggesting that Republicans were on track to lose seats in the 2026 midterms unless the political environment shifted. Democrats also made gains in key off‑year elections, including gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey and a redistricting‑related ballot initiative in California, which strengthened their position heading into 2026.
Editor’s Note: The charts are missing, ChatGPT failed to produce them accurately. I will update later. Apologies… –DrWeb
Key Takeaways for the 2026 Midterms
- The 2025 political landscape was dominated by Trump’s second‑term agenda, including immigration crackdowns, federal workforce cuts, and aggressive use of executive power.
- Economic dissatisfaction and concern about affordability helped Democrats win key off‑year races in Virginia, New Jersey, and California, giving them momentum heading into 2026.
- National polling suggested that Republicans were vulnerable in the House, while the Senate map remained more favorable to the GOP, setting up the potential for divided control after the 2026 elections.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all – The Washington Post
A still frame from a video posted on Truth Social by President Donald Trump, showing a missile strike on a boat allegedly transporting illegal narcotics on Sept. 2, 2025. Information along the sides of the image has been obscured by the U.S. Department of Defense. (Department of Defense)WP Exclusive
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
By Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima, Updated November 28, 2025, 10 min
Reach the reporters securely on Signal: Alex Horton at AlexHorton.85 and Ellen Nakashima at Ellen.626.
Editor’s Note: Some images appear only in the online version. –DrWeb
The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligenceanalysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.
A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has killed more than 80 people to date — is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.
The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an “armed conflict” with the U.S., these officials and experts say. Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any ofthe men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.
Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.
This report is based on interviews with and accounts from seven people with knowledge of the Sept. 2 strike and the overall operation.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell declined to address questions about Hegseth’s order and other details of the operation, including Special Operations involvement. “This entire narrative is completely false,” he said in a statement. “Ongoing operations to dismantle narcoterrorism and to protect the Homeland from deadly drugs have been a resounding success.”
The elite counterterror group SEAL Team 6 led the attack, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing sensitive operations.
The commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets because they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo, according to two people. He ordered the second strike to fulfill Hegseth’s directive that everyone must be killed.
Later in the day, President Donald Trump released a redacted 29-second surveillance drone video showing the attack. The video does not include any footage of the subsequent strike on the survivors.
In the weeks following that attack, the Trump administration notified Congress that the U.S. was in a “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations,” supported by an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel that asserted that because the U.S. was in an armed conflict, personnel taking part in military strikes who were following orders consistent with the laws of war would not be exposed to prosecution.
“That’s one of the problems with the law of armed conflict — the state using force is judge, jury and executioner,” Huntley said.
Since that first attack, the Pentagon has hit at least 22 more boats, including one semisubmersible, in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, killing another 71 alleged drug smugglers, according to officials and internal data seen by The Washington Post.
In two social media posts Friday, after the publication of this report, Hegseth appeared to acknowledge the decision, writing, “these highly effective strikes are designed to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes,’” and defended the operations as “lawful under both U.S. and international law.”
In a separate post on X from his personal account, he wrote: “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.”
Late Friday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), respectively the chairman and senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued a statement about the “recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels,” saying that they intend to conduct “vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”
A clandestine strike
At the time of the Sept. 2 strike, Bradley headed Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, tasked with the military’s most sensitive and dangerous missions, often working with counterparts in the CIA. Since then, Bradley has been promoted to lead U.S. Special Operations Command, JSOC’s parent organization, which oversees elite units across the military.
SEAL Team 6, known formally as Naval Special Warfare Development Group and under JSOC command, conducted the intelligence collection and targeting for this attack and several others, according to two people.
The protocols were changed after the strike to emphasize rescuing suspected smugglers if they survived strikes, according to three people. It is unclearwho directed the change in protocol and when exactly it took shape.
In one Oct. 16 strike in the Atlantic Ocean that killed two, another two men were captured and repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador. In a series of strikes on four boats in the eastern Pacific on Oct. 27 that killed 14 men, one apparent survivor was left to the Mexican coast guard to retrieve. The body was never found.
If the video of the blast that killed the two survivors on Sept. 2 were made public, people would be horrified, said one person who watched the live feed.
The Intercept first reported that the survivors were killed in a follow-up attack.
In briefing materials provided to the White House,JSOC reported that the “double-tap,” or follow-on strike, was intended to sink the boat and remove a navigation hazard to other vessels — not to kill survivors, according to another person who saw the report.
A similar explanation was given to lawmakers in two closed-door briefings, according to two congressional aides. That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive in its description of events, the aides said.
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