Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict
Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
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After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next
The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
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How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?
Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
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Of Four Options Facing Trump in Qatar, Only One Is the Right Choice
Three weeks after President Trump’s closely watched meeting with Arab leaders during his visit to Saudi Arabia, the No.1 question for Trump’s foreign policy team is how to navigate in a region that...
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How the Comey Hearing Made America Great Again
By Ciro ScottiThat sound you’ve been hearing for almost five months is the world laughing at America as the rubes from New York bumble around Washington smashing the fine china of governance in a spectacle of...
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The Only Person Who Can Bring Down Trump Is Sitting in the Oval Office
Could a wealthy businessman managing his own company do better operating the federal government than a politician? The experiment has just begun, but it’s already apparent that the type of...
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The Comey Firing Proves We Need Two Special Counsels, Not One
James Comey finds himself out of a job unexpectedly – and perhaps not unreasonably. The timing of his exit and the confusion over the status of the investigation into alleged Russian interference in...
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Democrats, Now the Party of No, Stonewall Trump at Their Peril
By Liz PeekAs Democrats have comfortably settled into their new role as the Party of No, some say the formerly obstructionist Republicans are getting their just desserts. But there is one stark difference...
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Trump's Troubling Embrace of Anti-Democratic Leaders and Policies
By Rob GarverFrom the earliest days of his presidential campaign, there has been an air of authoritarianism around the man who now occupies the Oval Office. But over the past few weeks, as Donald Trump approached...
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These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals
By Liz PeekAs Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...
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Why Newt Gingrich Could Be the GOP's Mr. Fix It
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesNewt Gingrich, in an interview with The Fiscal Times, says he knows what the Republican Party needs to do to start fixing itself: “You need inclusion, not outreach. Outreach is when five white guys...
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The Biggest Budget Player You Don't Know About
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesBy many counts, Chris Chocola gained more influence on Capitol Hill after losing his Indiana congressional seat more than six years ago. He resurfaced in 2009 as the president of the Club for Growth—...
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Volcker: Wall St. Kills Regs By Running Out the Clock
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesPaul Volcker declared on Monday that the financial regulation system is broken. The gist of his complaint is that the Wall Street overhaul known as Dodd-Frank was passed in the middle of 2010, yet...
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Sequester Post-Mortem: It’s Obama Vs. Congress
By Eric Pianin and Maureen MackeyRepublicans have left little doubt the sequester cuts just beginning to take hold will be a fact of life for the government and some Americans for months, if not years, to come. But they were less...
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Obama's Second Term Threatened by Sequester
By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick, ReutersJust hours after across-the-board spending cuts officially took effect, President Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to work with him on a compromise to halt a fiscal crisis that threatens the...