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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Euro zone not preparing third Greek bailout so far: official
By Jan Strupczewski and Martin Santa, ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone is not making any preparations for a third bailout for Greece and will consider it only if expressly asked by Athens, which has not happened so far, a senior euro...
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Illinois Gov. Quinn’s Tax Pledge Could Cost His Reelection
By Eric PianinGeorge H. W. Bush famously said at the 1988 Republican National Convention, “Read my lips, no new taxes” before he was elected president that fall – and then lost his reelection bid in 1992 after...
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Obamacare enrollment tops six million as deadline looms: White House
By Roberta Rampton, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 6 million people have now signed up for private insurance plans under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law known as Obamacare, reflecting a surge in...
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Ukraine wins IMF lifeline as Russia faces growth slump
By Natalia Zinets and Elizabeth Piper, ReutersKIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine won a $27-billion international financial lifeline on Thursday, rushed through in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea, while Moscow's economy minister...
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IMF agrees $14-18 billion bailout for Ukraine
By ReutersKIEV (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it had agreed a $14-18 billion bailout for Ukraine, a deal that will unlock further credits to reach a total of $27 billion over the...