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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Greene Eases Off Ouster Threat Against Johnson, but Issues Four Demands
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time in a New York courtroom these days — adult film actress Stormy Daniels took a salacious star turn testifying in the hush-money criminal case today — but...
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Speaker Johnson Meets With GOP Rebels, Will Continue Talks Tomorrow
House Speaker Mike Johnson met Monday with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, the Republican hardliners who announced last week that they would seek to force a vote to oust him within...
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Biden Forgives Another $6 Billion in Student Loans
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration on Wednesday announced it would erase roughly $6.1 billion in additional student loan debt. The latest round of debt forgiveness is specifically for 317,000 borrowers who...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’ll Force Vote to Oust Johnson
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Wednesday that she will force a vote next week on her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, even as her odds of succeeding appear to be nil. Republican...
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Democratic Leaders Vow to Save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson
Congress may be done funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year and pushing through a major foreign aid package, but the fallout from those contentious spending bills isn’t over yet. With...
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Global Military Spending Reached a Record $2.4 Trillion Last Year: Study
We told you earlier this month that global defense spending had reached a record $2.2 trillion last year. A study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute puts that...
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate voted Tuesday to advance the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and is now poised to send the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk tonight or tomorrow. A motion to end...
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‘America Will Deliver Yet Again’: Senate Set to Vote on Foreign Aid Plan
After the House on Saturday approved a $95 billion, four-bill bundle of foreign aid legislation, the Senate is set to pass the package this week and deliver assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan...
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
The House took a significant step Friday toward passing a long-delayed $95 billion package of foreign aid bills, as Democrats provided most of the votes needed to help the legislation clear...
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Johnson Rejects a Rule Change Proposed to Protect His Speakership
House Republicans continued to snipe at each other Thursday as party leadership continued to propel a $95 billion package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan toward a series of weekend votes. With...
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Medicare Could Save Billions on Generic Drugs by Being More Like Costco: Report
Medicare could have saved billions of dollars on generic drugs in recent years if it used a streamlined distribution system like retail giant Costco, according to an analysis published Tuesday in the...
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House Problem Solvers Back Infrastructure Deal; McConnell Vows ‘Hell of a Fight’
The House Problem Solvers Caucus on Tuesday endorsed the infrastructure deal negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House, broadening the base of support for the agreement and...
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Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion Contract With Microsoft
By Michael RaineyThe Department of Defense said Tuesday that it has canceled a massive contract for cloud services with Microsoft. Awarded in 2019, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract could...
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Another Cloud Over Infrastructure Deal: GOP Ire at IRS
One of the key ways President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators are proposing to pay for the $579 billion in new spending under their infrastructure plan is to have the Internal Revenue...
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House Passes $760 Billion Infrastructure Bill
The House on Thursday passed a roughly $760 billion, five-year transportation and water package that some Democrats say could be used to flesh out the framework of a bipartisan infrastructure bill,...