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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How Obamacare Signals the End of Government Insurance
In four months, Americans will have to prove to the IRS that they have health insurance—the kind that qualifies under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The law kicks in on January 1, 2014, and the...
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Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years
By ReutersBradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history by providing files to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.
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Obama vs. Dimon: Is It Personal?
By Liz PeekJamie Dimon has landed in the penalty box with a thud. Not long ago the CEO of JPMorgan Chase was donating to President Obama’s campaigns and Obama was calling Dimon one of the country’s “smartest...
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Hillary Clinton’s Hype Machine Gears Up for 2016
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesWhat’s in a name? For Hillary Clinton, it could just be the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. The hype machine for the former secretary of State, New York senator, first lady and 2008...
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Bank of America Working Interns To Death?
By Cnbc Staff, CNBCA 21-year-old intern who worked grueling hours at Bank of America's London office died just a week before his internship was to conclude.