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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Experts Warn of a Coming Fiscal Crisis as Trump Prepares to Take Charge
By Eric PianinWith the Republicans’ new national agenda in a state of flux just a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office, some budget and tax analysts are warning of a dimming fiscal...
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Both Trump and Clinton Would Drive the Federal Budget off a Cliff
By Rob GarverA new analysis of the major party candidates’ tax and spending plans by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows that Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both advocating...
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Trump Policy Advisor Promises an Astounding $7 Trillion Surplus
By Rob GarverDonald Trump sent Sam Clovis, who identifies himself as Trump’s chief policy advisor and the national co-chair of his presidential campaign, to Washington on Wednesday to talk to an audience of...
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Two Year Budget Deal Passes in the House
By Kelsey Snell, The Washington PostCongress on Wednesday moved a step closer to clearing a bipartisan budget deal that would boost spending for domestic and defense programs over two years while suspending the debt limit into 2017...
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Four Political Issues That Could Tank the Markets
By Jeff Cox, CNBCDonald Trump's raucous presidential campaign won't be the only thing lighting the political fires this fall. A handful of significant deadlines and policy decisions loom for Washington and Wall...
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Washington Inches Toward Another Fiscal Cliff
By Eric PianinAfter a long day of partisan finger pointing over the Amtrak train disaster, bickering over the defense budget, and worrying that the government is short-changing vital highway and infrastructure...
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Obama’s Spending Spree Could Push Long-Term Deficit over $1 Trillion
By Matthew Sabas, The Fiscal TimesThe decrease in the federal budget deficit has been touted as an accomplishment by many—most recently by President Obama during his State of the Union Address—but America’s debt situation is far from...
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Will the Dow Cross 18,000 Threshold in the Week Ahead?
By Patti Domm, CNBCTraders will be searching for any signs the economy and job market are really kicking into higher gear, as Friday's jobs report suggests. November saw the strongest employment gains in 35 months, and...
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Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt
By Eric PianinLargely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...
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$1.5B Over Budget, 10 Years Late: DHS HQ May Be Cut Off
By Jerry Markon, The Washington PostThe Department of Homeland Security’s long-delayed new headquarters is running into trouble in Congress again, with Republican lawmakers seeking to end funding for the troubled project and Democrats...
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Romney vs. Obama: A Clearer Choice after Ryan
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesMitt Romney had a reputation as the head of Bain Capital for seeking to reduce the private equity firm’s risk and maximizing its reward. But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee took a...
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Republican Convention Will Be No Tea Party
By Samuel P Jacobs, ReutersSince attorney Ted Cruz's victory in the Texas GOP primary for a Senate seat last week, Tea Party members across the country have been touting the strength of their conservative movement and its...
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How to Build a Guard Rail around the Fiscal Cliff
By David M. Walker, The Fiscal TimesOp-ed : The “ fiscal cliff ” is quickly approaching, but President Obama, Gov. Romney, and Congressional leaders have not revealed their specific plans to avoid it – if they have one. Given that it...
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Behind the Fiscal Cliff Looms Deficit Mountain
In poll after poll this year, voters consistently say that the economy and jobs are the biggest issues of the 2012 election. The distant second-place finishers are usually annual federal deficits and...
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9 Tea Party Politicians Who Could Change the Senate
By Eric Pianin and Maureen MackeyTea Party strategists are working hard to establish a major beachhead in the Senate next January. Combined with at least half a dozen sitting senators who already have strong Tea Party ties –...