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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Factbox: What happens in a U.S. government shutdown?
By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker and Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker, ReutersIn shutdowns, nonessential government employees are furloughed, or placed on temporary unpaid leave. Workers deemed essential, including those dealing with public safety and national security, keep...
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Trump Tries to Sell Tax Reform to Democrats
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that...
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Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday gained crucial support for a vote on a budget resolution that is vital to President Donald Trump's hopes of signing sweeping tax reform...
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No Talk of Ousting Speaker Ryan, Key Conservative Says
By ReutersMany Republicans are unhappy with the deal President Donald Trump reached last week with Democratic leaders to raise the government's debt ceiling and allow it to continue financing federal spending...
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Congress sends Trump disaster aid, debt limit increase
By Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to provide disaster aid, extend the debt ceiling and fund the federal government for three months on Friday, delivering on...
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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’s Proposed Budget Cuts Inspire a Monthly Fast in Protest
While many of us will be looking at or talking about the solar eclipse today, a group of religious anti-hunger activists are trying to draw the public's attention elsewhere. As USA Today reported on...
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Why Trump’s Press Conference Was Disappointing Even Before It Got Controversial
President Trump's statement from Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon was supposed to be about what the White House called “the Infrastructure Discussion” — but that’s not what’s being discussed after...
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Budget Hawks Call for ‘Mini-Bargain’ to Address the Debt and Deficit
By Rob GarverPerhaps it’s a mark of diminished expectations of the federal government’s ability to get things done, or just a concession to the reality that the country’s fiscal problems are simply too large to...
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The Looming Fiscal Train Wreck Means Trump Won’t Get His Wall. Here’s Why
By Eric Pianin and Rob GarverCongress has religiously missed its deadline for passing a budget and related spending bills for eight consecutive years. And from the looks of a looming fiscal train wreck this fall, congressional...
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Democrats Accuse GOP of Sabotaging the Economy
By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal TimesBiden's Gang of Seven has yet to emerge from their foxholes to face the opposition and find a compromise on the deficit. Their entrenchment does not bode well for raising the debt ceiling in time to...
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CBO Says Long-Term Debt Is Unsustainable
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesThe long-term budget outlook for the U.S. remains unsustainable, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. Unless a long-term plan to reduce the deficit is enacted, the nation’s...
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America’s Third World Roads: Broken and Dangerous
By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal TimesYou're driving along at night and suddenly you hit a pothole. As you try to steady the wheel and avoid a crash, the dashboard signals that not one, not two, but all four tires are shot. Welcome to...
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Both Sides Reject Short-Term Fix on Debt Ceiling
By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal TimesIn negotiations over a deficit reduction plan, Republicans and Democrats have found at least one issue to agree on: opposition to temporarily raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
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George Pataki, Debt Hawk: Is He a Candidate?
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesFormer New York Governor George E. Pataki has not yet tossed his hat into the 2012 GOP presidential ring, but he increasingly sounds like someone who might.