Budget Battles
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New Poll Finds Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Tax the Super-Rich
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Biden Vows US Will Pay to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ on the 2024 Spending Bills
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown, Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
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Debt Will Hit Record High This Decade, CBO Warns
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Congress Races Against the Clock to Avoid Shutdown
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Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge ‘Will Not Be Quick or Easy or Cheap,’ Buttigieg Says
A day after President Joe Biden said the federal government would foot the bill for rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told...
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Biden Says Federal Government Will Pay for New Bridge in Baltimore
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ Passing 2024 Spending Bills
The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion, six-bill spending package just after 2 a.m. on Saturday and President Joe Biden signed it later that day, ending an unusually drawn-out process of funding the...
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown as Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
The House on Friday narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion funding package that would avert a government shutdown at midnight, sending the legislation to the Senate with just hours to go before the deadline...
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
Nearly six months into the fiscal year, and less than 48 hours before a government shutdown deadline, congressional leaders on Thursday released their final package of 2024 annual spending bills. The...
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House Republican Caucus Calls for Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
By Michael RaineyThe Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, released on Wednesday a 2025 budget proposal that would slash healthcare spending, raise the Social Security retirement...
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Congress and White House Reach Funding Deal. Now the Race Is On to Pass It.
They have a deal. Now they just need the votes. President Joe Biden and congressional leaders announced Tuesday morning that they had reached an agreement on the contentious appropriations bill for...
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Border Battle Pushes Congress Toward a Shutdown
Congressional lawmakers have until midnight Friday to pass a package of spending bills needed to keep large portions of the government from shutting down, but a lengthy dispute over funding for the...
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Biden Calls on Congress to Pass Ukraine Aid
By Michael RaineyAt an early St. Patrick’s Day event with the Irish prime minister and officials including House Speaker Mike Johnson, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass the foreign aid package that would...
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Republicans Consider Seizing Russian Assets to Pay for Ukraine Aid
By Michael RaineyPressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson to figure out a way to provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel. Johnson told Politico’s Olivia Beavers Thursday that aid packages for Ukraine and...
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Map of the Day: Where $9 Billion in Earmarks Went
The $1.5 trillion annual spending bill passed by Congress last month included 4,962 earmarks totaling more than $9 billion. The New York Times has a detailed breakdown of those appropriations that...
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Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.6% as Hiring Boom Continues
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. economy added 431,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate dropped to a pandemic low of 3.6%, the Labor Department announced Friday. While the report fell a bit short of expectations, the...
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Romney: ‘Agreement in Principle’ on $10 Billion in Covid Funding
Senate negotiators are closing in on a bipartisan deal to direct $10 billion more toward combatting the Covid-19 pandemic. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle on all the spending and all of the...
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US to Send Another $500 Million to Ukraine
By Michael RaineyPresident Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday that the U.S. will send another $500 million in “direct budgetary aid” to the war-torn country. In a 55-minute phone call, the...
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Biden Presses Congress to Provide Billions More for Covid Fight
By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael RaineyPresident Biden on Wednesday again called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in additional Covid-19 funding, warning that lawmakers’ inaction could reverse progress made against the pandemic...