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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.

Small Business Obamacare Solution Hasn’t Worked Yet

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Obamacare’s Small Business health exchanges have fallen short of expectations on enrollment, functionality and cost – leading many to wonder if they’ll be able to survive in the years ahead. The...
Obama’s Amnesty Plan: A Step to Non-Citizen Voting

By Liz Peek

President Obama has vowed to grant amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants. How soon before they will be allowed to vote? Not going to happen, you say? Think again. Some on the right accuse...
Ten Ways a U.S. ‘Full Monty’ Plan Can Defeat ISIS

By Eric Pianin

There’s a growing sentiment in Washington that President Obama’s plan to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS is not working, and that much more needs to be done. Max Boot, a military historian and...
A Shutdown Over Immigration – Are Agencies Ready?

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

When Congress shut down the government for 16 days last year following a brutal spending battle over Obamacare funding, agencies were forced to make tough decisions, including which services to stop...
Billions Saved if Bill to Fix Feds’ IT Costs Passes

By Rob Garver

A plan to revamp the way the federal government purchases some $80 billion in information technology products every year looks as though it might finally make it to the president’s desk.

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