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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.

STILL NO DEAL! Obama Says Talks to Continue

By Adam Corey Ross, The Fiscal Times

Budget talks between President Obama and Republicans carried well into Thursday evening but failed to yield a deal to avert a government shutdown, although Obama expressed hope for an agreement by...
2012 Reelection Muzzles Obama on Deficit Budget

By Lawrence Haas, The Fiscal Times

“Where’s Obama?” It’s the unavoidable question that is leaving Obama’s constituency largely dumbfounded-- a question that has two answers and dramatic implications for our future. “Where’s Obama?”...
Reid: Likelihood of Government Shutdown Increasing

By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post

Congressional negotiators working through the night failed to reach an agreement to fund the federal government for the remainder of the year as their talks foundered over two Republican policy...
800,000 Federal Workers Face Possible Furlough

By Adam Corey Ross and Jennifer Depaul and Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

New details emerged of what a government could mean for the federal workforce and the rest of the country, as a White House official publicly announced the many negative impacts a budget impasse...
The Government Shutdown Veteran at Obama’s Side

By VIVECA NOVAK, The Fiscal Times

Gene Sperling, the new chairman of the president’s National Economic Council, may lack the gravitas and PhD of his predecessor, Larry Summers, but Democrats and Republicans alike say he provides the...

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