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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Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up
It didn’t take long for Republicans to make their first tin-eared mistake after winning a broad victory in November. In fact, they had barely opened the new session of Congress before performing a...
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One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard
In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...
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Two-Thirds of the US Government Basically Won’t Work for the Next Year
By Rob GarverWith a deadlocked Supreme Court and a compromise-averse Congress, 2016 promises to be a year in which simply keeping the lights on will be a major accomplishment.
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House Freedom Caucus Prepares to Challenge Ryan on 2016 Agenda
By Eric PianinHouse Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has gotten off to a strong start with the far-right conservatives in his conference who drove former Speaker John Boehner from office and blocked Boehner’s heir...
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Ted Cruz Gets a Boost from Powerful Conservative Insiders
By Rob GarverAn influential political action group in Washington, Heritage Action for America, all but endorsed the presidential candidacy of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday, with the release of an analysis of the...
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Boehner Ready to Exit a Historically Feeble Congress
By Rob GarverAs he heads into what appears to be the final week his leadership of the House of Representatives, House Speaker John Boehner will be the subject of no end of retrospective profiles of his career...
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Did Paul Ryan Outsmart the Freedom Caucus?
By Rob GarverThe news that Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan had persuaded a large majority of the House of Representatives’ most conservative element to support his bid for Speaker of the House left the...
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Paul Ryan Has Probably Already Lost His Shot at the Presidency
By Rob GarverRegardless of whether Rep. Paul Ryan decides to declare himself a candidate for Speaker of the House sometime this week, his political future will likely sustain some real damage – and there is...
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Meet the Freedom Caucus, the Group Inflaming Washington
If you don’t know much about a group of congressional lawmakers called the House Freedom Caucus, don’t worry; you’ll hear about them plenty in the weeks and month ahead.
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Why You – Yes, You – Could Be the Next Speaker of the House
Spoiler alert: The race to be the next Speaker of the House is pretty much over.
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Romney’s Gamble on Ryan Has Already Paid Off
When Mitt Romney announced that Rep. Paul Ryan, the sometimes-controversial chair of the House Budget Committee would be his running mate, the media reaction was one of surprise. Most gave Romney...
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Obama Accuses Ryan of Blocking Farm Drought Aid
By Jeff Mason, ReutersPresident Barack Obama announced an emergency purchase of up to $170 million of meat and fish on Monday on a campaign trip to drought-hit Iowa, and accused Republican vice presidential candidate Paul...
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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...