Budget Battles
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
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New Poll Finds Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Tax the Super-Rich
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Biden Vows US Will Pay to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ on the 2024 Spending Bills
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown, Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
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Debt Will Hit Record High This Decade, CBO Warns
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
By Michael RaineyAlthough there’s no firm estimate yet on the cost of rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some details are beginning to trickle in, along with hints of the political...
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Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge ‘Will Not Be Quick or Easy or Cheap,’ Buttigieg Says
A day after President Joe Biden said the federal government would foot the bill for rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told...
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Biden Says Federal Government Will Pay for New Bridge in Baltimore
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ Passing 2024 Spending Bills
The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion, six-bill spending package just after 2 a.m. on Saturday and President Joe Biden signed it later that day, ending an unusually drawn-out process of funding the...
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown as Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
The House on Friday narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion funding package that would avert a government shutdown at midnight, sending the legislation to the Senate with just hours to go before the deadline...
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
Nearly six months into the fiscal year, and less than 48 hours before a government shutdown deadline, congressional leaders on Thursday released their final package of 2024 annual spending bills. The...
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House Republican Caucus Calls for Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
By Michael RaineyThe Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, released on Wednesday a 2025 budget proposal that would slash healthcare spending, raise the Social Security retirement...
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Congress and White House Reach Funding Deal. Now the Race Is On to Pass It.
They have a deal. Now they just need the votes. President Joe Biden and congressional leaders announced Tuesday morning that they had reached an agreement on the contentious appropriations bill for...
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Border Battle Pushes Congress Toward a Shutdown
Congressional lawmakers have until midnight Friday to pass a package of spending bills needed to keep large portions of the government from shutting down, but a lengthy dispute over funding for the...
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Biden Calls on Congress to Pass Ukraine Aid
By Michael RaineyAt an early St. Patrick’s Day event with the Irish prime minister and officials including House Speaker Mike Johnson, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass the foreign aid package that would...
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Senate Border Deal Is ‘Dead on Arrival,’ Johnson Warns
Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday appeared to snuff out any hope that a bipartisan Senate deal combining border changes and foreign aid could also pass the House. In a letter to House colleagues — who...
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Has Trump Doomed the Senate’s Border Deal?
After Republican divisions intensified this week over an emerging deal on border security measures and aid to Ukraine, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday reportedly acknowledged that...
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Furious Conservatives Say Border Bill ‘Ain’t Gonna Pass’
Senate Republicans are continuing to clash over ongoing talks for a deal to tighten border security and deliver aid to Ukraine, with some railing against the potential legislation and fuming that...
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Senators Still Struggling to Clinch Border Deal
The Senate’s drawn-out struggle to reach a deal on border policy changes and aid to Ukraine continues. But even before any agreement is reached, tensions have already risen with the Republican...
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It's Crunch Time for a Senate Border Deal
Senate negotiators say they are closing in on a high-stakes and politically thorny package of border security measures and emergency foreign aid, but some high hurdles remain — including some key...