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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10.3 Million People Are Now Newly Insured
By Dan Mangan, CNBCA day after a stunning court decision that threatens a crucial component of Obamacare, the federal government said Wednesday that 10.3 million adults have become newly insured by the close of open...
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$1.5B Over Budget, 10 Years Late: DHS HQ May Be Cut Off
By Jerry Markon, The Washington PostThe Department of Homeland Security’s long-delayed new headquarters is running into trouble in Congress again, with Republican lawmakers seeking to end funding for the troubled project and Democrats...
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Obama Targets a Twofer to Lead the VA: A Vet and a Former CEO
By Julie Eilperin, The Washington PostPresident Obama on Monday will nominate Bob McDonald, a West Point graduate who served as the chief executive of Procter & Gamble, to take over as head of the troubled Department of Veterans...
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Why the White House Decided to Free Bergdahl
By Steve Holland and Warren Strobel, ReutersFor President Barack Obama, it seemed like the right thing to do, according to officials in his administration: Release five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison in return for Bowe Bergdahl,...
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VA Scandal Sends Shinseki Packing
By WILLIAM BRANIGIN, The Washington PostPresident Obama said Friday he accepted the resignation of embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki. He made the announcement shortly after Shinseki apologized publicly Friday for what...