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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.

How Paul Ryan Would Erase Obama’s Social Contract

By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

For House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the end justifies the means. On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Republican launched his new budget plan, which borrows heavily from his three previous endeavors...
How Obama's White House Stops Employers from Hiring

By Liz Peek

With 23 million Americans still needing full-time jobs, you would think the Obama administration would be doing everything possible to encourage hiring. At the least, you might expect them to tone...
Obama Hears a Big “No” on Cutting Entitlements

By Eric Pianin

While, not surprisingly, President Obama’s visit with Senate Democrats went relatively smoothly Tuesday afternoon, he encountered some pushback from a liberal Democrat over Social Security reform...
What Congress Can Learn from the Cardinals

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

It is no secret that today’s Roman Catholic Church, beset by fiscal difficulties, bureaucratic infighting and accusations of sexual abuse, is deeply troubled. It’s also no secret that today’s federal...
Why These Budget Plans Are More Fiction Than Fiscal

By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

When Republican Congressman Paul Ryan unveils his budget plan today, it will get probed, prodded, and debated for its ideas about balancing the budget over 10 years. If the recent past is any guide,...

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