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 Added About Twice as Much to National Debt as Biden: Report
Whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump wins the White House in November, the next presidential term is likely to see the national debt reach a record size relative to the U.S. economy. A new analysis by...
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CBO Raises Its 2024 Deficit Forecast 27% to Nearly $2 Trillion
By Michael RaineyThe federal budget deficit will reach an estimated $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2024, according to an updated outlook released by the Congressional Budget Office Tuesday. The new projection...
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House Republicans Pass Defense Bill Packed with Culture War Policies
The House passed an $895 billion defense policy bill on Friday, narrowly approving a measure that Republicans loaded with controversial culture war amendments via a largely party-line vote that sets...
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G7 Nations Agree on $50 Billion Loan for Ukraine, Backed by Russian Assets
By Michael RaineyLeaders from the Group of Seven nations meeting in southern Italy have agreed to provide a $50 billion loan to Ukraine to help the country defend itself against the ongoing Russian invasion that...
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Biden Announces $225 Million in Aid to Ukraine, Apologizes for Funding Delay
President Joe Biden offered a forceful defense of democracy Friday in a speech in Pointe du Hoc, France, where U.S. Army Rangers doggedly battled their way to the top of cliffs 80 years ago to...