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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.

Defense Dodges Bullet in Obama’s Proposed Cuts

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

The Defense Department escaped unscathed by the president’s modest budget cuts Monday. While the budget did spell out $78 billion in cuts over the next five years, those are taken from previous...
Obama Budget Preview: Deficit Tweaks, More for DoD

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

President Obama will unveil his 2012 budget on Monday as he attempts to reconcile conflicting political pressure for economic growth and deficit reduction.
Congress May Resurrect ‘Tough Medicine’ Deficit Plan

By Kirk Victor, The Fiscal Times

Just when it seemed the bipartisan deficit commission’s recommendations were dead, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are confident that some of the proposals will become part of the budget policy...
Obama Proposes Relief to States Overburdened by Debt

By Lori Montgomery Wp and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post

States driven into debt by the soaring cost of unemployment benefits would get immediate relief from the Obama administration under a new plan that would also make it easier to repay those debts by...
Issa’s List: 'Five Biggest Job Killing Regulations'

By Louis Peck, The Fiscal Times

At Republican Rep. Darrell Issa’s urging, nearly 150 corporations and trade associations identified regulations that they claim hurt job growth. Here is the list of what some groups say are the “five...

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