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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.

Why Newt Gingrich Could Be the GOP's Mr. Fix It

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Newt Gingrich, in an interview with The Fiscal Times, says he knows what the Republican Party needs to do to start fixing itself: “You need inclusion, not outreach. Outreach is when five white guys...
The Biggest Budget Player You Don't Know About

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

By many counts, Chris Chocola gained more influence on Capitol Hill after losing his Indiana congressional seat more than six years ago. He resurfaced in 2009 as the president of the Club for Growth—...
Volcker: Wall St. Kills Regs By Running Out the Clock

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Paul Volcker declared on Monday that the financial regulation system is broken. The gist of his complaint is that the Wall Street overhaul known as Dodd-Frank was passed in the middle of 2010, yet...
Sequester Post-Mortem: It’s Obama Vs. Congress

By Eric Pianin and Maureen Mackey

Republicans have left little doubt the sequester cuts just beginning to take hold will be a fact of life for the government and some Americans for months, if not years, to come. But they were less...
Obama's Second Term Threatened by Sequester

By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters

Just hours after across-the-board spending cuts officially took effect, President Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to work with him on a compromise to halt a fiscal crisis that threatens the...

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