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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 Urged to Tap Oil Reserve

By STEVEN MUFSON, The Washington Post

Is $100-a-barrel oil a national emergency? Some Democratic lawmakers say yes, and assert that now is the time for the United States to dip into its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is brimming with...
TARP’s Lower Cost Doesn’t Assuage Critics

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

The final price tag for TARP came in much lower than the original estimate of $700 billion, but that did little to satisfy the critics of the historic financial bailout.
The Federal Subsidy that Just Won’t Die: LIHEAP

By Elaine S. Povich, The Fiscal Times

Lawmakers and presidents have tried – and failed -- to cut or kill LIHEAP heating and cooling subsidies for the poor but the program has too many influential friends throughout the country.
Obama Rejects Governors’ Plan to Overhaul Medicaid

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

President Obama fired back Monday against Republican governors, including Haley Barbour and Scott Walker, who are pushing to convert Medicaid to a federal block grant program and reduce benefits for...
Is this 1995? Showdown over a Budget Crisis Shutdow

By George Hager and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

As President Obama and congressional GOP leaders try to negotiate a spending deal to keep the government afloat, there are eerie similarities between now and events that led to two government...

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