Budget Battles
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House Heads Out for 6-Week Break, Setting Up Another Shutdown Showdown
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Harris and Trump Trade Attacks as Campaign Heats Up
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Harris Blasts Trump at Her First Campaign Rally
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Harris Quickly Consolidates Support After Biden Exit
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Dems to Biden: ‘The Clock Has Run Out'
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Top Dems Turn the Screws on Biden
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Powerful Democrat Joins Push to Dump Biden
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House Heads Out for 6-Week Break, Setting Up Another Shutdown Showdown
The House is now out until the week after Labor Day, meaning that lawmakers will have a key item on their agenda when they return: funding the government. Congress will need to pass a stopgap funding...
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House Starts Summer Recess Early as Spending Bills Stall
By Michael RaineyUnable to pass some of their key spending bills for fiscal year 2025, House Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they are canceling votes planned for next week, moving up the start date of...
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7 Proposals to Rein In the Debt
By Michael RaineyAlthough it may be hard to imagine now, at some point in the not-too-distant future the 2024 election will be over and a new government will take over in Washington. No matter who is in power, the...
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Meet the New Trump, Same as the Old Trump
Football fans likely remember an angry postgame press conference rant by Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Dennis Green in 2006. His team had just blown a 20-point halftime lead to the Chicago Bears,...
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Biden Digs In as More Dems Call for Him to Drop Out
By Michael RaineyTen more Democrats added their names Friday to the list of lawmakers calling on President Joe Biden to step aside as their party’s nominee in the November election. The tally of Democratic members of...
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Top Dems Are Turning the Screws on Biden
By Michael RaineyAs President Joe Biden recovers from Covid in isolation at his beach house in Delaware, the list of prominent Democrats pressuring him to step down from his pursuit of a second term is growing longer...
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Influential Dem Calls for Biden to Drop Out
By Michael RaineyRep. Adam Schiff of California, the influential lawmaker known for leading a successful 2019 effort in the House to impeach former President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of...
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A Fiscal Twist as Judge Dismisses Trump’s Classified Documents Case
By Michael RaineyU.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday threw out the federal case involving former President Trump’s allegedly improper retention of dozens of classified documents, ruling that the appointment...
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House Republicans Fail to Pass One of Their Spending Bills
House Republican leaders’ aggressive drive to pass all 12 annual spending bills by the end of the month hit an unexpected pothole Thursday as the bill funding the legislative branch was defeated in a...
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Biden Fails to Stem a Growing Democratic Rebellion
By Michael RaineyA make-or-break press conference Thursday evening ended up neither making nor breaking President Joe Biden and his hold on the Democratic nomination to run against former President Donald Trump this...
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Trump’s Republican Platform Drops Any Mention of National Debt
Ahead of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week, the GOP on Monday published its 2024 platform — a 16-page outline of the party’s policy positions for a second Trump term. The...
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Powerful Middlemen Are Jacking Up Drug Prices: FTC
By Michael RaineyThe middlemen who buy and sell prescription drugs throughout the U.S. healthcare system are inflating prices for consumers, according to an interim report released Tuesday by the Federal Trade...
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Insurers Bilk Medicare for $50 Billion to Treat Fictitious Illnesses
By Michael RaineyPrivate insurance firms running Medicare Advantage programs have been overcharging the federal government billions of dollars by making patients look sicker than they really are, according to a...
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Biden Struggles to Save His Candidacy as Pressure Grows
By Michael RaineyFacing growing pressure to publicly prove he is capable of performing his duties for another four years following a disastrous debate performance last week, President Joe Biden spoke with allies...
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Democratic Lawmakers Start to Publicly Back Away From Biden
Democrats have been freaking out for days about President Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance last Thursday night. The White House and the Biden campaign have sought to tamp down those concerns...