Budget Battles
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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Johnson Defies Hardliners, Pushes Ahead With Foreign Aid Plan
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Facing Right-Wing Revolt, Johnson Says He Won't Resign
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Johnson Unveils Plan for Israel, Ukraine Aid
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Trump Throws Johnson a Lifeline: ‘He’s Doing a Very Good Job’
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Biden’s New Student Debt Relief Plan Would Cost $84 Billion: Analysis
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
The House took a significant step Friday toward passing a long-delayed $95 billion package of foreign aid bills, as Democrats provided most of the votes needed to help the legislation clear...
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Johnson Rejects a Rule Change Proposed to Protect His Speakership
House Republicans continued to snipe at each other Thursday as party leadership continued to propel a $95 billion package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan toward a series of weekend votes. With...
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Johnson Pushes Ahead on Foreign Aid Plan, Angering Hardliners and Risking His Job
House Speaker Mike Johnson plowed ahead Wednesday with a slightly modified plan to deliver aid to Ukraine, Israel and Indo-Pacific allies. In doing so, he further infuriated far-right hardliners in...
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Biden Admin Releases Draft of Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
By Michael RaineyThe Department of Education on Tuesday released a first set of draft rules for President Joe Biden’s proposed plan to provide billions of dollars in forgiveness of student loan debt. The rules will...
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Facing Right-Wing Revolt Over Foreign Aid Plan, Johnson Says He Won't Resign
House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he will not give up his gavel after a second member of his Republican conference called for his ouster, joining in a revolt by Georgia Rep. Marjorie...
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Nearly 1 in 4 of Those Removed From Medicaid Now Uninsured
By Michael RaineyMillions of Americans have been removed from state-level Medicaid programs over the last year, following the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the return to pre-pandemic rules governing...
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Johnson Unveils Plan for Aid to Israel, Ukraine
Iran’s unprecedented direct attack on Israel this weekend has ramped up the pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson to decide on a path forward for foreign aid funding that has been stalled in the House for...
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Former Biden Administration Economists Launch New Budget Lab
A huge tax fight is looming as a slew of 2017 Republican tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 — and, as Natasha Sarin writes at The Washington Post , the government’s budgetary...
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Biden Administration Forgives Another $7.4 Billion in Student Debt
By Michael RaineyPresident Joe Biden on Friday announced another round of student loan forgiveness, part of a piecemeal effort that has seen $153 billion in debt erased for 4.3 million borrowers. The latest round of...
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Trump Throws Johnson a Lifeline: ‘He’s Doing a Very Good Job’
Still facing a threat from his own party to oust him from his job, House Speaker Johnson scored some MAGA cred Friday by appearing with former President Donald Trump at a Mar-a-Lago news conference...
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Nine Democrats Threaten to Blow Up Pelosi’s Budget Plan — and Biden's Agenda
A group of centrist House Democrats is threatening to derail much of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, nine moderates said they will withhold support...
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Labor Department Targets ‘Terrifying’ Level of Unemployment Fraud
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. Department of Labor is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to combat fraud in the benefits system for unemployed workers – fraud that experts fear skyrocketed in the wake of the Covid-...
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Deficit Totals $302 Billion in July, $2.54 Trillion Over First 10 Months of Year
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. budget deficit came to $302 billion in July, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. Outlays were $564 billion during the month, down 10% from the year before but still at an unusually...
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As Dems Adopt $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint, Manchin Fires a Warning Shot
The Senate adopted Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution just before 4 a.m. Wednesday morning in a 50-49 vote along party lines. Republicans uniformly voted against the blueprint that could open...
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Senate Kicks Off Vote-a-Rama as It Prepares to Pass Dems' $3.5 Billion Budget Blueprint
After passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Senate on Tuesday immediately turned to consideration of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget blueprint, which would unlock the fast-track process...