Budget Battles
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Trump Tax Cut Extension Would Cost $4.6 Trillion: CBO
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House Kills Greene Motion to Oust Speaker Johnson
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Greene Backs Off Johnson Threat, but Issues Four Demands
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Social Security, Medicare Get Boost From Strong Economy
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Biden and Trump Joust Over Jobs Report
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IRS Unveils Plan to Crack Down on the Rich
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’ll Force Vote to Oust Johnson
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Trump Tax Cut Extension Would Cost $4.6 Trillion: CBO
By Michael RaineyLawmakers in Washington will need to address some serious fiscal questions next year, not least of which is what to do about Trump-era tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2025. Some in Congress want...
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House Kills Marjorie Taylor Greene Motion to Oust Speaker Johnson
The House on Wednesday afternoon quickly dispensed with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. After a couple days of discussions with Johnson, Greene moved...
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Biden Touts Economic Policies — and Tweaks a Noted Trump Failure
By Michael RaineyPresident Biden on Wednesday highlighted his “Investing in America” economic strategy in a visit to the site of a Microsoft data center being constructed in Racine, Wisconsin — the same place where...
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Greene Eases Off Ouster Threat Against Johnson, but Issues Four Demands
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time in a New York courtroom these days — adult film actress Stormy Daniels took a salacious star turn testifying in the hush-money criminal case today — but...
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Speaker Johnson Meets With GOP Rebels, Will Continue Talks Tomorrow
House Speaker Mike Johnson met Monday with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, the Republican hardliners who announced last week that they would seek to force a vote to oust him within...
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Biden Forgives Another $6 Billion in Student Loans
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration on Wednesday announced it would erase roughly $6.1 billion in additional student loan debt. The latest round of debt forgiveness is specifically for 317,000 borrowers who...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’ll Force Vote to Oust Johnson
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Wednesday that she will force a vote next week on her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, even as her odds of succeeding appear to be nil. Republican...
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Democratic Leaders Vow to Save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson
Congress may be done funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year and pushing through a major foreign aid package, but the fallout from those contentious spending bills isn’t over yet. With...
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Global Military Spending Reached a Record $2.4 Trillion Last Year: Study
We told you earlier this month that global defense spending had reached a record $2.2 trillion last year. A study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute puts that...
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate voted Tuesday to advance the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and is now poised to send the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk tonight or tomorrow. A motion to end...
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Mexico calls on G20 to commit to strong Europe, IMF
By Krista Hughes, ReutersLOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - The world's biggest economies must commit to a strong Europe and could agree to further bolster the International Monetary Fund's ability to contain fallout from Europe'...
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Sandusky found guilty on 45 of 48 sex abuse charges
By Ian Simpson, ReutersBELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 child sex abuse charges on Friday, ending a trial that rocked U.S...
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Italy's Monti raises specter of crisis amid protests
By Danilo Masoni and Stephen Jewkes, ReutersMILAN/BOLOGNA (Reuters) - Italy is again flirting with economic disaster, Prime Minister Mario Monti said, as crowds massed in sporadically violent protest at his austerity programme a day ahead of...
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Suu Kyi receives Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late
By Balazs Koranyi, ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full...
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China astronauts complete successful space docking
By ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese astronauts carried out a manned docking with an experimental space module on Monday, the latest milestone in China's ambitious campaign to build a space station. The...