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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.

Doggone It! Cat and a Pony in the White House?

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Make no mistake about it: Presidents love their pets, and over the years the American public has taken to them pretty well, too. They can also be convenient instruments of presidential politics – as...
Obama Tries Again For ‘Grand Bargain’ With Taxes

By Eric Pianin and Jennifer Depaul

As the government moves towards a possible debt default, President Obama once again called for a major debt reduction deal, including entitlement reform and tax increases – but Republican leaders say...
Obama: Chance for 'Something Big' to Calm Economy

By JIM KUHNHENN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday Congress has a "unique opportunity to do something big" and stabilize the U.S. economy for decades by cutting deficits at the same time it raises...
How Obama’s Social Security Changes Will Hurt You

By John Berry, The Fiscal Times

In negotiations with congressional leaders over how to avoid a default on government debt, President Obama has proposed changing the way Social Security and other benefits are indexed for inflation...
5 Ways Obama Can Break the Debt Ceiling Impasse

By Eric Pianin

House Speaker John Boehner says the debt ceiling talks are like a ‘Rubik’s Cube’ that hasn’t been solved yet, but the impasse is more like a Gordian Knot – and it’s time for President Obama to slice...

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