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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Trump Is Headed for Another Failure with a Deplorable Immigration Bill
By Rob GarverBack when his presidential candidacy was still a longshot, Donald Trump had a go-to method for firing up his supporters if he sensed that a campaign rally was losing its momentum. He described it in...
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Trump Will Allow Young Immigrants to Stay: Here’s a Rundown on DACA
By Rob GarverA release from the Trump administration on Thursday night surprised many of the president’s detractors when it made suggested that the administration plans to leave President Obama’s Deferred Action...
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How Much Energy Would Trump's Solar Border Wall Actually Produce?
By Leanna Garfield, Business InsiderDuring a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US-Mexico border wall. As Axios reported , he pitched covering the wall...
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Here’s a Basic Problem With Trump’s Plan to Deport Undocumented Immigrants
By Rob GarverAccording to the Government Accountability Office, if the Trump administration really plans on maintaining its accelerated pace of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, something is...
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Here's How Broken Washington Is — Even Without Trump
By David DayenA problem caused by a government-granted monopoly looks like it’ll actually get solved. Or it did, until conservatives found the name “Elizabeth Warren” atop the bill.
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Bad News for Trump’s Wall: Watchdog Finds Plenty of Ways Around It
By Eric PianinA new report by the Government Accountability Office suggests there are plenty of ways for illegal immigrants, illicit drug smugglers and human traffickers to breach almost any barrier the...
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These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals
By Liz PeekAs Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...
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Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
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Can Trump’s Wall Really Pay for Itself Over 10 Years?
By Rob GarverThe original plan for President Trump’s border wall, repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail, was that it would be paid for by Mexico. On Sunday, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated a...
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Trump Pushes Congress to the Wall to Avoid a Government Shutdown
By Rob GarverThe already-complicated effort to avert a government shutdown on April 29 is taking on another layer of complexity, with the White House demanding that any spending measure that funds the federal...
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GOP Doesn't Blink on DHS Funding After Judge Bars Immigration Order
By Rob GarverFaced with a potential face-saving way out of the emerging crisis over funding the Department of Homeland Security, Republican leaders in Congress showed no interested in taking it on Tuesday,...
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Obama’s Immigration Setback Is a Gift to GOP
By Liz PeekPresident Obama has just suffered a double hit. First, his executive action granting temporary amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on ice by a judge in Texas. Second, Republicans who...
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Obama's Immigration Order Blocked by Federal Judge
By Fred Barbash, The Washington PostA federal Judge in Texas last night temporarily blocked the Obama administration’s plan to offer a reprieve from deportations to millions of illegal immigrants. The order by Judge Andrew S. Hanen in...
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$1.5 Billion over Budget, 12 Years Late for DHS Headquarters
By Eric PianinThe 250,000 employee Department of Homeland Security has a spending problem. And it isn’t just because Congress and President Obama are at an impasse over a bill that could partially shut down the...
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McConnell Blames Senate Dems for ‘Stuck’ DHS Bill
By Eric PianinSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday revealed his Plan B for breaking the stalemate with President Obama over funding the Department of Homeland Security. Unable to get the 60...