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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Zuckerberg Throws His Hat into Immigration Ring
By Theweek.com, TheWeek.comFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is throwing his hat into the political ring. The 28-year-old tech icon is reportedly forming a nonprofit "to address issues such as education reform, immigration, and...