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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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case
Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...
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Why Big Banks Could Still Pay a Big Price for the Housing Crisis
By Rob GarverIn a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court has opened...
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The Threatened Gorsuch Filibuster Will Backfire on Democrats for a Long Time
By Liz PeekThe Donnybrook over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court makes it clear: the Extreme Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. That’s a tragedy for Democrats, and for the country.
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McConnell Prepared to Invoke ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Gorsuch
By Eric PianinSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed on Sunday that – one way or another – the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by the end of...
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The Gorsuch Vote Will Show the Democrats Can’t Govern, Either
Senate Democrats had come under severe pressure from progressive activist groups to find a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, part of a strategy of “resistance” to the Trump...
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Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Travel Ban
By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington PostA federal appeals court has maintained the freeze on President Trump’s controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can...
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Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks
By Eric PianinThe administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban on...
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Trump May Be the First Test Case for His Own Supreme Court Nominee
By Rob GarverIt cannot have been an easy weekend for Judge Neil Gorsuch. At a time that ought to be one of the high points of his life, one wonders if the Colorado jurist tapped by President Trump to fill the...
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Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch
“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated...
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Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination: One Way or the Other, This Ends Badly
By Rob GarverNo matter how it turns out, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will end with one of the two major parties claiming that they have been grossly mistreated, and insisting that...
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Will Senate Republicans Chose Flight or Fight Over the Supreme Court?
Senate Republicans will convene this week for the first time with the hope of all getting on the same page about how best to handle the Supreme Court vacancy left after the unexpected death of...
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Why Vladimir Putin Knows Exactly Where U.S. Special Forces Are in Syria
The insertion of U.S. Special Forces into Syria became even more bungled on Thursday when the Defense Department revealed that it had asked Russia to avoid bombing certain areas inside the country...
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Abortion, Obamacare, Affirmative Action: Crucial Cases Before the Supremes
By Robert Barnes, The Washington PostThe death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia casts a cloud of uncertainty over a Supreme Court term filled with some of the most controversial issues facing the nation: abortion, affirmative...
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Here’s Why the SCOTUS Battle Could Get So Much Worse
By Rob Garver and Eric PianinWhen the Supreme Court’s conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly over the weekend, setting up a major showdown between a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, a whole...
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A Fight Over Scalia's Seat Is Just What the Fractured GOP Needs
By Liz PeekThe tussle over who should replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could prove a blessing in disguise for Republicans. After years of infighting, the GOP has an opportunity to unite in...