Budget Battles
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
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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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After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next
The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
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How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?
Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
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Here’s How to Tell If John Kelly Really Has the White House Under Control
By Rob GarverPresident Trump’s decision to replace former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, until recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is...
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US Seen as Major Global Threat Along with ISIS, Climate Change: Pew Poll
A new Pew Research Center poll of nearly 42,000 people across 38 countries found the threat of climate change is nearly as great as terrorism from ISIS. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that...
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If Demographics Is Destiny, 80 Million Millennials Will Decide America’s Future
By Liz PeekIt wasn’t James Comey that torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. It wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn who upset Teresa May. It wasn’t fed-up workers who gave the National Front their best-ever showing in...
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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As Puerto Rico Votes on Statehood, Economic Distress Looms Large
By Leslie Picker, CNBCSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The question of "status," whether Puerto Rico should be admitted as a U.S. state, remain a commonwealth or seek sovereignty — has been an undercurrent of every major policy...
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Democrats May Be Blowing Their Best Chance for a Big Win Against the GOP
By Eric PianinDemocrats are improving their standing on the issues nationally, but the party is holding back on spending in a key congressional race in Georgia.
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The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationJohn H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
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Macron's Challenge: Playing Nice With Germany to Secure the Euro Zone
By Noah Barkin, ReutersIn the days before Emmanuel Macron traveled to Berlin in March to meet Angela Merkel, people in his entourage debated what message he should send to the German chancellor. Some urged him to lay out a...
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There Is No Honor Left in Abandoning Trump Now
By Rob GarverPoliticians, by their nature, will always strive to make a virtue of necessity. But that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to make it easy for them. Unfortunately, that’s what many seemed determined...
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After Calls for Trump to Quit, He Vows to Stay in Race
By Emily Stephenson and Ginger Gibson, ReutersPresidential nominee Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to remain in the race even as his campaign was thrown into crisis as both his wife and running mate criticized him and more than a dozen prominent...
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US Makes It Official: Russia Is Hacking the Election
By Rob GarverTensions between the United States and Vladimir Putin’s Russia have reached a pitch not seen in decades over the past 24 hours, as a Russian general threatened to shoot down American planes if they...
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Mike Pence Is Giving a Lot of Trump Supporters Buyer’s Remorse
By Ciro ScottiIn the aftermath of his strong performance in Tuesday’s debate against Democrat Tim Kaine, Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence is giving a lot of Donald Trump supporters a bad case of...
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A Good but Not Great Jobs Report May Be Exactly What Clinton Wanted
By Rob GarverThe monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, out this morning, was largely good news for President Obama, whose approval ratings continue to trend upward as he nears the end of his...