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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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump
By Rob GarverThings have looked grim for Donald Trump’s future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician. But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...
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Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says
As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
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Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies
By Rob GarverIf the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
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What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling
By Rob GarverNow, well past six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the construction industry would like to know where those infrastructure dollars he promised are. While a slowly improving economy has been...
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Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom
By David Lawder, ReutersThe Trump administration has set a collision course with the auto industry as it launches renegotiations of the 23-year-old NAFTA trade pact this week, aiming to shrink a growing trade deficit with...
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One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again
By Rob GarverThe effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
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White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis
By Rob GarverNazi rallies are like the big, fat hanging curveball of American politics -- the sort of pitch any minimally competent public figure can put in the cheap seats without even thinking about it. But...
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Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?
By Rob GarverAfter President Trump made brief remarks on Saturday related to the violent white nationalist protest in Virginia, the country saw something that it hadn’t seen in a while: a full-blown stampede of...
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What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea
By Rob GarverIs Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.
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Trump’s Debate Performance Should Kill His Candidacy … but Won’t
By Rob GarverDonald Trump delivered a performance at the first debate between the leading candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination that, by rights, ought to kill his barely two-month-old campaign...
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Which States Get Hit Hardest by Obama’s New Energy Rule?
By Rob GarverThe Obama administration’s new Clean Energy Plan is under assault by 16 states’ attorneys general. Most are from states that for which the carbon emissions reductions demanded by the law were...
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Obama Accuses Republicans of Siding with Iranian Radicals on Nuke Deal
By Rob Garver and Eric PianinPresident Obama blasted critics of his administration’s deal with Iran on nuclear issues in a speech Wednesday. Calling opponents “knee-jerk” partisans who are “selling a fantasy” of a better...
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Hillary’s Email Security Is Now a Matter for the FBI
By Carol D. Leonnig and ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN, The Washington PostThe FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system,...
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Obama: This May Be ‘The Last Generation’ That Can Stop Climate Change
By Eric PianinPresident Obama on Monday formally unveiled his signature plan for dramatically reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants over the coming decade, and then immediately fired a salvo at his...