Budget Battles
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Trump’s Risky Plan to Get $8 Billion for His Wall
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Trump to Sign Border Deal — and Declare a National Emergency, Too
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Trump Likely to Sign Border Deal, Avert Another Shutdown
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Shutdown Makes a Bad Situation Worse at the IRS
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Trump’s ‘Not Happy’ with the Border Deal. Why He’ll Probably Sign It Anyway.
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Lawmakers Scramble to Avert Another Government Shutdown
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Is Trump ‘Trapped’ on the Border Wall Deal?
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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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The GOP Health Care Plan Gives Democratic Fundraising a Big Boost
By Maxwell Tani, Business InsiderFollowing the passage of the American Healthcare Act on Thursday, Democrats expressed outrage at House Republicans — online, in person, and at the bank. In a joint statement released Friday,...
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Why Political Talk Is Causing Problems at Work
The election may have ended months ago, but American workers are still talking politics at the office, and it’s stressing them out. A new survey from the American Psychological Association finds that...
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House Intel Chair Says Intel Agencies May Have ‘Spied’ on Trump
By Rob GarverIn a sometimes contradictory and confusing press conference held in a Capitol Hill hallway on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes suggested that at least one US intelligence...
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Former Trump Campaign Chair Worked to ‘Benefit the Putin Government’
By Rob GarverEarly Wednesday morning, the Associated Press published an explosive story alleging that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, already known to have done very well-compensated work for the...
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Glued to the TV, Apparently, Trump Fires a Tweet Into the Comey Hearing
By Rob GarverThroughout his presidential campaign and into his young presidency, President Donald Trump has been very effective at using social media, and particularly Twitter, to shape the news cycle and the...
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It’s Easy to See Where the Trump-Russia Investigation Is Headed
By Rob GarverIt became plain on Monday that as the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign drags on, Democrats and Republicans are...
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Trump’s ‘Tax Return’ Offers Little Substantive Information
By Rob GarverThe supposed bombshell release of President Trump’s 2005 tax return on Tuesday night was more of a firecracker. Despite the hype, the documents answer almost none of the real questions that have been...
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