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Trump Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws

By Yuval Rosenberg

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...
Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council

By Michael Erman, Reuters

The 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...
Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?

By Catherine Clifford, CNBC

For 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,...
Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President

By Veronika Bondarenko , Business Insider

On 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...
Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

President 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...

Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game

By Rob Garver

In 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...
The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

John 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 ,...
Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done

By Rob Garver

The 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...
The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration

By Janna Herron

While 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...
Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?

By Ciro Scotti

Later 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...

New Assault on CBO’s Numbers and Transparency

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

The Congressional Budget Office has long been a target of disgruntled lawmakers and politicians, and this week it again came under attack – this time by super tax lobbyist Grover Norquist and former...
Obama Signs Deal with Karzai to End Afghan War

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

While events can always turn sour on the ground, President Obama’s new agreement with Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death signals the coming exits from Iraq and...
Why Reagan's Tax Reform Road Map Won't Work Now

By Eric Pianin and Michelle Hirsch

While the 1986 tax reform legislation is frequently cited as a useful roadmap for the White House and Congress to draft another major overhaul after the2012 election, there are many important...
Krugman’s Left-Wing Bullying of Bernanke

By Liz Peek

Paul Krugman vaulted over the line recently, issuing an ad hominem attack on Fed Chair Ben Bernanke for not doing enough to boost the economy. Krugman’s anxiety that the stuttering recovery will...
Obama is Betting on the "Likability Factor"

By Eric Pianin

President Obama is the master of the one-liner and projects an air of coolness as few other politicians can, as he demonstrated once again at the White House correspondents dinner Saturday night...

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