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The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a non-profit organization that combines the best ideas from both parties to represent both ends of the political spectrum. BPC drives principled and politically viable policy solutions through the power of rigorous analysis, painstaking negotiation, and aggressive advocacy. It currently focuses on promoting health, energy, national security, the economy, financial regulatory reform, housing, immigration, infrastructure & governance for all Americans. BPC is committed to seeing bipartisan policy solutions enacted into law. As such, BPC Action engages in aggressive advocacy & strategic outreach to unite Republicans and Democrats on polarizing issues.


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President Donald Trump speaks at the RNC midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9, 2026.

How Anti-Bribery Laws Apply to Trump’s Promise of $5,000 Payments if Republicans Keep Control of Congress

In his keynote address to the Republican midterm convention on Sept. 9, 2026, President Donald Trump promised that if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he would authorize a US$5,000 payment to every American adult.

Trump’s offer seems to run afoul of federal laws, which make it a crime to pay for votes.

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New York Is Making Childcare Affordable. Don’t Forget the People Providing It.
two toddler playing letter cubes

New York Is Making Childcare Affordable. Don’t Forget the People Providing It.

Last month, New York City opened its first free 2-K classrooms. Roughly 2,000 two-year-olds got seats, the beginning of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push for universal childcare.

More than 5,700 applied for those first 2,000 seats, which gives some sense of the demand. Childcare has become unaffordable for too many parents, and New York is doing something important by treating it less as a private family expense and more as a public responsibility.

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