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 Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he has picked former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to serve as attorney general, replacing former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
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Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council
By Michael Erman, ReutersThe chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid...
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Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?
By Catherine Clifford, CNBCFor a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive. Amazon's stock price then slid and Bezos went back to the number two spot,...
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Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President
By Veronika Bondarenko , Business InsiderOn Friday, before leaving France, where he was visiting as part of Bastille Day celebrations, US President Donald Trump enthusiastically shook French President Emmanuel Macron's hand for about 25...
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Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationPresident Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve System , the central bank of the United States. Before I get to Quarles and his...
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Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game
By Rob GarverIn his career as a businessman, the overwhelming body of evidence is that Donald Trump was an inveterate rule breaker. Ask the contractors who were never paid, the trail of former partners who have...
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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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Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done
By Rob GarverThe idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
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The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration
By Janna HerronWhile he may not have had record-breaking crowds at his inauguration, President Trump raked in far more cash than any president to spend on the festivities surrounding his swearing in to office...
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Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?
By Ciro ScottiLater this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to host a high-profile meeting in Washington with representatives of 68 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic...
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Buffett's $1.2B Buyback Saves Shareholder a Fortune
By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal TimesWarren Buffett has been a critic of companies that use their capital to buy back stock instead of investing for future growth. He also hasn’t been a big fan of millionaires and billionaires trying to...
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Why Obama's Tax the Rich Plan Will Slow the Recovery
By Liz PeekNew information suggests that President Obama’s ongoing drive to hike taxes on the rich may slow the economy more than expected. In his relentless quest to make the wealthy “pay their fair share,” Mr...
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Twas the Night Before 'Cliffness'
‘Twas the night before Cliffness and all through the HouseThey pined for a deal while the rest of us grousedThe wealthy were moving their money aroundTo Islands and places where sultans abound
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Fiscal Cliff Cuts Will Diminish Obama’s Second Term
By Peter Wallsten and Zachary A Goldfarb, The Washington PostEven if President Obama succeeds in getting Republicans to agree to tax hikes on the wealthy as part of a “fiscal cliff” deal, the country’s grim budget realities will still cast a long shadow —...
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Week Ahead: Dumping Stocks at the Foot of the “Cliff"
By Caroline Valetkevitch, ReutersInvestors typically sell stocks to cut their losses at year end. But worries about the "fiscal cliff" - and the possibility of higher taxes in 2013 - may act as the greatest incentive to sell both...