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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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
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...
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The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump
By Rob GarverThings 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...
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Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says
As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
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Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies
By Rob GarverIf 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...
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What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling
By Rob GarverNow, 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...
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Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom
By David Lawder, ReutersThe 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...
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One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again
By Rob GarverThe 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...
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White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis
By Rob GarverNazi 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...
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Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?
By Rob GarverAfter 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...
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What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea
By Rob GarverIs Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.
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Obama Warns of ‘Wake-Up Call for Iraq’
By Stephanie Gaskell and Molly O'Toole, Defense OnePresident Barack Obama said Friday he is considering military intervention in Iraq, but had a clear message for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: “We can’t do this for you.” Obama said he will not put...
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How Iraq’s Army Lost So Much Ground to ISIS So Quickly
By Ali Mamouri, The ConversationThe extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS , has captured a third of Iraq’s territory within a few days. Iraq’s third-biggest city, Mosul, fell within hours of...
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How Tribal Politics Is Undermining Our Democracy
By Rob GarverThe much-discussed Pew Research Poll on political polarization released yesterday showed an increasing distance and antipathy between the two main political parties in the U.S., but it left one key...
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Iraq Unrest Drives Concerns of Oil Spike
By Patti Domm, CNBCIraq has become an important swing player with big promise in the global energy market, and the widening conflict has experts worried any supply disruptions could lead to a sharp oil price spike...
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Obama Just Can't Shake Off War in Iraq
By Scott Wilson, The Washington PostPresident Obama inherited two wars on taking office, one he called “dumb” to his political benefit and the other he described more urgently as “the war we need to win.” It is the dumb one today that...