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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Here’s How to Tell If John Kelly Really Has the White House Under Control
By Rob GarverPresident Trump’s decision to replace former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, until recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is...
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US Seen as Major Global Threat Along with ISIS, Climate Change: Pew Poll
A new Pew Research Center poll of nearly 42,000 people across 38 countries found the threat of climate change is nearly as great as terrorism from ISIS. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that...
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If Demographics Is Destiny, 80 Million Millennials Will Decide America’s Future
By Liz PeekIt wasn’t James Comey that torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. It wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn who upset Teresa May. It wasn’t fed-up workers who gave the National Front their best-ever showing in...
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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As Puerto Rico Votes on Statehood, Economic Distress Looms Large
By Leslie Picker, CNBCSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The question of "status," whether Puerto Rico should be admitted as a U.S. state, remain a commonwealth or seek sovereignty — has been an undercurrent of every major policy...
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Democrats May Be Blowing Their Best Chance for a Big Win Against the GOP
By Eric PianinDemocrats are improving their standing on the issues nationally, but the party is holding back on spending in a key congressional race in Georgia.
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The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationJohn H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
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Michele Bachmann Reboots, Runs for President
By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal TimesMichele Bachman’s strong showing in Monday night’s GOP presidential debate has thrust the Tea Party favorite into the limelight and may force Sarah Palin to decide soon whether to jump into the race...
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Pawlenty Struggles to Defend Massive Tax Cut Plan
By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal TimesFormer Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is struggling to defend his economic and tax reduction plan from critics that he based on a highly optimistic – some say pie in the sky – assumption of economic...
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Tax Cuts and Job Creation—Fact or Fantasy?
By John Berry, The Fiscal TimesTwo years after President Obama's $800 billion stimulus plan was enacted the money that cushioned the recession's impact on state and local governments is drying up. And so are the jobs that were...
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Democratic Push for More Stimulus Hits GOP Wall
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesDemocrats and Republicans agree the stumbling economy is the paramount issue but they couldn’t be further apart on solutions, as the Democrats are pushing once more for stimulus spending while...
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GOP Presidential Candidates Attend First Debate
By Karen Tumulty and Philip Rucker, The Washington PostGOFFSTOWN, N.H. — The leading contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination appeared together onstage for the first time Monday. But they used the debate to train their fire on President...