
Emine Yücel
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Emine Yücel is a national political reporter for TPM. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Emine previously worked at PBS’ Washington Week and NewsHour Weekend and NPR’s Investigations Team. Emine double majored in African American studies and Neuroscience at Northwestern University, where she also competed on the varsity fencing team. She later received her master’s degree in Social Justice and Investigative Reporting from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.

There’s already some bipartisan agreement on the health care subsidies that Dems want to extend in exchange for government funding votes. So why are Democrats only publicly leveraging this single issue?

“People are becoming more loyal to their political party than to the office that they hold,” Georgetown Law professor David Super said of congressional Republicans’ willingness to cede their authority to the executive branch.

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