Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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Trump Has Just Raised the Stakes With Moscow and Tehran in Three Risky Moves
President Trump made three big moves on Syria and Iran this week. They crisscross and contradict one another, but the administration’s game plan in the Middle East just got a lot clearer.
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Sending More Troops to Afghanistan Would Be a Historic Mistake
By Marc JoffeEarlier this month, ISIS claimed to have taken Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden’s old hideout in Afghanistan. The Taliban immediately denied ISIS’s claim, insisting that it still held the area. But, in...
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Trump’s Fly-by-Night Mideast ‘Policy’ Embraces the Saudi’s New Crown Prince
It’s not likely that President Trump knew what he was getting into when he embraced the Saudis as the rightful leaders of the Islamic world and the war on terror during his visit to Riyadh last month...
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How Will We Pay the $6 Trillion Bill for the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
By Linda J. Bilmes, The ConversationOn Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Yet the nation’s...
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Here's How Much the 'Mother of All Bombs' Costs
The United States Defense Department likes to show off. After proving it can move with the quick strike capability of a cobra as it did when it launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield ,...
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Why The US Can't Just Take Out Assad
By David Alpher, The ConversationThe Trump administration has done an abrupt about-face on Syria, contradicting its own nascent foreign policy . Within 24 hours, it went from calling out the Assad regime for using chemical weapons...
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Team Trump Still in Search of a Coherent Syria Policy
By Rob GarverMore than 48 hours after President Trump ordered a missile assault on a Syrian government airbase as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians in the town of Idlib,...
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Trump Just Strengthened His Hand on Defense Spending
By Eric PianinIn the wake of U.S. missile strikes against Syria, President Trump’s call for huge increase in defense spending is suddenly looking more likely to succeed.
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Here's What Firing 59 Tomahawk Missiles at Syria's Airfield Cost
Sarin gas is a horrible nerve agent that should never be used on human beings. Even if one doesn't die from exposure, there could be permanent damage to the nervous system after even a short...
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Obama’s Budget: Good News for ISIS, Bad News for Taxpayers
By Matthew Sabas, The Fiscal TimesPresident Obama’s Budget proposal, to be released on Monday, confirms that a sweeping, bipartisan compromise to tame exploding federal debt is not on the White House agenda for 2016. The president’s...
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New Weapon in Syrian Civil War: Female Avatars
By Arjun Kharpal, CNBCHackers stole Syrian opposition fighters' strategic battle plans by using "attractive" female Skype avatars to target victims, according to a new report. The attacks, which happened between November...
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ISIS Takes Oil Facility in Northern Iraq
By Stephen Kalin, ReutersIslamic State insurgents on Saturday seized a small crude oil station near the northern Iraqi city Kirkuk where 15 employees were working, and explosions in and around the capital Baghdad killed at...
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Trouble with Our Armed Drones in Yemen
By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart and Matt Spetalnick, ReutersThe United States is facing increasing difficulty acquiring intelligence needed to run its stealth drone program in Yemen , undermining a campaign against the most lethal branch of al Qaeda after...
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What the Pentagon is Hiding from Its Auditors
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesThe Defense Department just made it extremely difficult for federal auditors to keep track of how billions of dollars are being spent in Afghanistan. In its quarterly report to Congress , the Special...