Budget Battles
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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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Democrats Say They’re Ready to Rescue Mike Johnson
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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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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Trumka Puts on the Gloves: “I’m in the Fight”
By Kirk Victor, The Fiscal TimesAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka vows to lead a national battle to salvage public employees’ collective bargaining rights, but the labor movement has suffered many setbacks in recent years and is...
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Jeff Sessions Blasts Obama on Budget Battles
By Kirk Victor, The Fiscal TimesJeff Sessions, the new ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is taking a hard line against President Obama’s budget policies. Some wonder whether his inflexibility could get in the way...
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At Age 7, Facebook Overtakes (add any website here)
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesSeven-year old Facebook has changed the culture—not just in the U.S., but across the globe. And Its billionaire CEO co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg has pulled off one of the largest valuations of the...
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Trumka to Congress and Obama: We Need Jobs!
By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal TimesAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka railed against the Obama administration on Wednesday, signaling a growing rift between organized labor and the White House.
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Ron Paul Edges Closer to His Goal of Ending the Fed
By John Berry, The Fiscal TimesAs chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, Ron Paul has a new platform for his argument that that Federal Reserve should be eliminated, but he is unlikely to succeed.