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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White House Requests $4 Billion for Baltimore Bridge, Disasters
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration has requested $4 billion in emergency funding from Congress to help pay for the replacement of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as for...
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House Passes 3 Spending Bills, Teeing Up Battles This Fall
By Michael RaineyThe Republican-controlled House on Friday approved spending bills that would fund the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security, with the votes falling largely along party lines. The...
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A 30-Year Plan to Stabilize the National Debt
By Michael RaineyOn the heels of new projections from the Congressional Budget Office showing that the federal budget deficit and national debt will continue to rise for years to come, with the debt reaching record...
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House Republicans Release Plan to Cut DOJ, FBI Funding
House Republicans on Tuesday released a proposed spending package for fiscal year 2025 that would cut funding for the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Commerce Department. The bill is likely to...
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Courts Block Parts of Biden’s Student Loan Plan
By Michael RaineyA pair of federal judges on Monday blocked key parts of the Biden administration’s new student loan repayment plan that provides faster loan forgiveness and lower monthly payments for millions of...