Budget Battles
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McConnell: Entitlement Cuts Probably Won’t Happen Under Trump
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Republicans Ignore the Obvious Effect of Their Tax Cuts
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Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent to $779 Billion
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Trump’s Border Wall: A Christmastime Clash Is Coming
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GOP Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s Federal Pay Freeze
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Larry Kudlow Wants to Put a ‘Big Dent’ in Government Spending
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Four States That Will Founder When the Next Recession Hits
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Why Trump May Opt for a Shutdown
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Trump Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ Spending Bill: Is a Shutdown Back on the Table?
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Are Deficit Hawks Dead or Just Playing Possum?
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Why Democrats Want to Bring Back Earmarks
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Congress Reaches Spending Deal to Avoid Shutdown. Will Trump Go Along?
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Obama: 'Suddenly Deficits Do Not Matter'
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Freedom Caucus Divided on Shutdown
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Trump Told GOP Leaders He Won’t Force a Shutdown. Will He Keep That Promise?
Newsletter
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Number of the Day: $3.3 Billion
The GOP tax cuts have provided a significant earnings boost for the big U.S. banks so far this year. Changes in the tax code “saved the nation’s six biggest banks $3.3 billion in the third quarter...
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These 5 Companies Would Be Hit Hardest by Trump’s Drug Ad Proposal
The Trump administration’s proposal to require drugmakers to disclose their prices in television ads would hit five companies especially hard: Pfizer, AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Amgen and Allergan, STAT...
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Why Tax Cuts in a Strong Economy Could Hurt in the Long Run
Passing tax cuts in an already strong economy violates the important fiscal principle, says Jared Bernstein, former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, in The Washington Post Wednesday. “...
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Medicare For All? CMS Chief Warns Program Has Enough Problems Already
The Trump administration’s top Medicare official Tuesday slammed the federal health program as riddled with problems that hinder care to beneficiaries, increase costs for taxpayers and escalate fraud...
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Hurricane Michael Might Have Damaged More Than $1 Billion Worth of F-22s
By the time Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle last week, most of the aircraft based at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City had been flow out of harm’s way. But between four and 17 F-22...
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Mitch McConnell on Rising Deficit: ‘It’s Not a Republican Problem'
The quotes: “It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem. It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the...
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What Will Work Requirements for Medicaid and Food Stamps Really Accomplish?
A new paper from the Brookings Institution raises more doubts about the usefulness of work requirements for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). More than a dozen states...