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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.

Obama vs. Business: Fight Brewing Over Tax Hikes

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

By seeking to raise taxes from high-earners and corporations to cut the federal deficit, Obama has set himself up for a particularly caustic fight not only with congressional Republicans but with an...
Obama: I’ll Veto Any Deficit Plan That Doesn’t Raise Taxes

By Eric Pianin and Jennifer Depaul

President Obama unveiled his plan for achieving an additional $3 trillion in deficit reduction through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. And he warned Republicans that he would veto...
Obama’s Deficit Plan Cuts Medicare, Raises Taxes

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

In a tip of his hat to progressives, Obama’s deficit reduction plan includes tax hikes on high earners and corporations. Republicans are already calling the plan “class warfare.”
The One Policy Move that Could Jumpstart the Economy

By James C. Cooper, The Fiscal Times

Obama’s jobs package could add 1.9 percentage points to 2012 GDP growth Banks have $1.6 trillion in lendable funds parked at the Federal Reserve A streamlined mortgage refi process could free up $70...
Obama to Challenge the GOP House with New Deficit Plan

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

President Obama on Monday will unveil a new deficit reduction plan designed to convince moderates and independents that he has a viable long-term strategy for solving the nation’s fiscal woes.

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