
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
For the past several years, congressional Republicans have focused relentlessly on a single message: Washington  led by President Obama  is spending too much money, and it needs to stop.
But according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling, that laser-like focus isnt helping Republicans win the argument over federal spending  with 67 percent of those tested disapproving of the “way Republicans in Congress are handling federal spending.