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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.

Chamber Games: Obama Asks Business to Step Up

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

Obama’s speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday was another attempt to mend fractured ties with the business community. But he also called on the Chamber to do more for innovation, education,...
Obama Visit Could Mark Thaw with Business Leaders

By Peter Wallsten and Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post

The White House's campaign to rebuild ties with corporate America gets the ultimate photo opportunity Monday when President Obama crosses Lafayette Park and steps into the imposing headquarters of...
Obama Budget Chief Outlines Paltry Spending Cuts

By Eric Pianin

White House Budget Director Jacob Lew says the easy cuts are behind us, but in previewing President Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget, he outlined several proposed spending cuts that don’t begin to make a...
GOP Budget: Draconian or Not Draconian Enough?

By Adam Corey Ross, The Fiscal Times

Reaction to the House Republicans pledge to cut more than $32 billion out of agency budgets over the next few months spilled out from both parties Friday. Democrats called the plan draconian, while...
Unions Try to Scuttle Obama’s Skilled Worker Plan

By Liz Peek

President Obama stuck his toe (his little toe, to be sure) into the turbulent waters of immigration policy in the State of the Union speech, arguing in favor of expanding the H-1B visa program...

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