Budget Battles
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package
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GOP Infighting Continues as Senate Heads for Aid Vote
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News Alert: House Approves $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
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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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Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council
By Michael Erman, ReutersThe chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid...
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Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?
By Catherine Clifford, CNBCFor a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive. Amazon's stock price then slid and Bezos went back to the number two spot,...
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Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President
By Veronika Bondarenko , Business InsiderOn Friday, before leaving France, where he was visiting as part of Bastille Day celebrations, US President Donald Trump enthusiastically shook French President Emmanuel Macron's hand for about 25...
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Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationPresident Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve System , the central bank of the United States. Before I get to Quarles and his...
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Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game
By Rob GarverIn his career as a businessman, the overwhelming body of evidence is that Donald Trump was an inveterate rule breaker. Ask the contractors who were never paid, the trail of former partners who have...
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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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Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done
By Rob GarverThe idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
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The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration
By Janna HerronWhile he may not have had record-breaking crowds at his inauguration, President Trump raked in far more cash than any president to spend on the festivities surrounding his swearing in to office...
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Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?
By Ciro ScottiLater this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to host a high-profile meeting in Washington with representatives of 68 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic...
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The Conservative Conundrum: What to Do About the Alt-Right?
By Rob GarverStung by the embarrassment of having to disinvite right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from a speaking slot at its Conservative Political Action Conference, the American Conservative Union sent...
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Jeff Bezos Just Got Crushed by the Stock Market
By Brandt Raj, Business InsiderAmazon's earnings brought disappointment to Wall Street, and after missing both its estimated earnings per share and revenue benchmarks, its stock tanked. After falling from just over $590 a share to...
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The Surprising Thing Donald Trump and Pope Francis Have in Common
By Eric PianinOnce again the man and woman Americans say they admire most in the world are former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, according to an annual Gallup survey released Monday. This...
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Why Texans Are Buying Mexican Gasoline
By Michael McDonald, Oilprice.comThe world is changing fast in the energy industry and for no company is that truer than Mexican National Oil Company Pemex. After decades of bloated operations and mismanagement, Pemex has made major...
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Here’s How Climate Change Could Drag 100 Million People into Poverty
By Megan Rowling, ReutersWithout the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday. In...
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is Coming One Step Closer to Reality
By Michael McDonald, Oilprice.comFor the first time in close to a century, mankind may be about to give serious attention to a technology that has the potential to be a true game-changer in transportation. Elon Musk famously...