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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Will Home Care Industry Exert Political Power on Pay?
By Alvin Tran, Kaiser Health NewsClose to 2 million in-home care workers and personal care aides in the U.S. don’t always get paid for overtime work or receive minimum wage, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. They are...
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Investors welcome new Italian government
By Lisa Jucca and Francesca Landini, ReutersMILAN (Reuters) - Investors welcomed on Monday the formation of a new government in Italy, piling into the country's assets and brushing off a warning it might still need international aid to weather...
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Analysis: The maze behind EU "treaty change"
By Luke Baker, ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - If there are two words that tense the jaws of European policymakers and prompt a concerned sucking of teeth, they are treaty change. Like a nervous driver being told mid-route...
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Lawmakers press Obama to take action on Syria
By Jason Lange, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators on Sunday pressed U.S. President Barack Obama to intervene in Syria's civil war, saying America could attack Syrian air bases with missiles but should not...
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Did Obama’s $76 Billion Corporate Tax Break Pay Off?
By Brianna Ehley and Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesThanks to the president’s stimulus package loaded with tax credits, corporations have saved billions each year, contributing to a significant decline in tax revenue. One tax write-off, in particular...