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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The Shocking Cost to Taxpayers of a Shutdown
Berlin - The adverse economic impact of a U.S. government shutdown was apparent in Europe today, as major European indexes traded lower because of the impending government shutdown in the U.S. and...
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A Glimmer of Hope? Obama Wants to Talk
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesPresident Obama stressed Monday that he wants to negotiate with House Republicans over the budget. But as a precondition for those talks, he wants the threat of a government shutdown to be taken off...
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Shutdown Will Be More Than a Mere Hassle
By PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST and Gabriel Debenedetti, ReutersThe most iconic image from the last big shutdown of the federal government in 1995 was also its most misleading. It was a sign on the door of the Air and Space Museum in Washington saying, "Due to...
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Latest House Bill Could Seal a Government Shutdown
By Eric PianinThe probability of a federal government shutdown next week greatly increased early Sunday morning as a defiant Republican-controlled House passed another short-term spending bill that requires a one-...
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Obama’s Task? Be More Rational Than the Tea Party
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesPresident Obama has a simple mission in the budget battle: Appear much more sane and rational than Tea Party Republicans. And he’s doing a pretty good job of that, which may help explain why there...