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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost

By Yuval Rosenberg

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...
The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump

By Rob Garver

Things have looked grim for Donald Trump’s future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician. But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...
Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says

By David Francis

As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

By Rob Garver

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling

By Rob Garver

Now, well past six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the construction industry would like to know where those infrastructure dollars he promised are. While a slowly improving economy has been...

Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom

By David Lawder, Reuters

The Trump administration has set a collision course with the auto industry as it launches renegotiations of the 23-year-old NAFTA trade pact this week, aiming to shrink a growing trade deficit with...
One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

By Rob Garver

The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis

By Rob Garver

Nazi rallies are like the big, fat hanging curveball of American politics -- the sort of pitch any minimally competent public figure can put in the cheap seats without even thinking about it. But...
Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?

By Rob Garver

After President Trump made brief remarks on Saturday related to the violent white nationalist protest in Virginia, the country saw something that it hadn’t seen in a while: a full-blown stampede of...
What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea

By Rob Garver

Is Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.

Obama Cuts Vaccine Program, Despite Measles Outbreak

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

President Obama is proposing to scale back one vaccination program for poor families as more people are getting health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Tucked away in his 2016 budget proposal...
How to Prepare for Obama’s Spending Avalanche

By Liz Peek

How appropriate that President Obama revealed his 2016 budget on Groundhog Day. As in the movie of that name, Mr. Obama is offering up the same arguments about taxing the rich and “investing” for the...
DHS Funding Hits Obama’s Immigration Wall

By Rob Garver

The Senate may spend another day or two on show votes over funding the Dept. of Homeland Security. But with a firm Democratic filibuster of a House-passed bill blocking the president’s executive...
GOP Ready to Rumble on Obama’s Tax and Spend Budget

By Eric Pianin

White House Budget Director Shaun Donovan wanted to talk about President Obama’s spending plans for aiding the middle class and keeping the economy on a solid path of recovery with a new $4 trillion...
Ryan and Lew: Finding the Ways and Means for a Budget Compromise

By Rob Garver

Rep. Paul Ryan and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have slugged it out in Capitol Hill hearing rooms more than once over the years, but in Ryan’s new role as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Lew...

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