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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.

The 29-Year Old Who Wants to Be the Next Norquist

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge has spawned an imitator. What Norquist did for taxes, Jonathan Bydlak wants to repeat with a promise to restrict government spending.
GOP Regains High Ground with Cliff Counteroffer

By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

he House Republicans regained some of the high ground on Monday – in a burst of bipartisanship -- by embracing the framework of the president’s own fiscal reform guru, Democrat Erskine Bowles.
Dumping the Mortgage Tax Break Can Cost, Not Give

By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

The mortgage interest deduction, considered by many to be the sacred cow of tax breaks, has joined the list of possible items on the chopping block in the growing debate between President Obama and...
Fiscal Cliff Letter from House GOP Leaders to Obama

By The Fiscal Times Staff

House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional GOP leaders sent President Obama the letter below, outlining a counterproposal as part of the two sides' ongoing negotiations to avert the fiscal...
White House Says GOP Counteroffer Isn't Balanced

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

President Obama has been pressing congressional Republicans for their alternative to his tax-heavy plan for trimming the budget deficit—but he might not be too thrilled with the substantial...

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