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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost

By Yuval Rosenberg

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...
The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump

By Rob Garver

Things 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...
Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says

By David Francis

As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

By Rob Garver

If 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...
What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling

By Rob Garver

Now, 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...

Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom

By David Lawder, Reuters

The 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...
One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

By Rob Garver

The 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...
White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis

By Rob Garver

Nazi 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...
Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?

By Rob Garver

After 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...
What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea

By Rob Garver

Is Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.

Has Trump Made Himself Irrelevant in the Budget Debate?

By Eric Pianin

President Trump may have rendered himself irrelevant to the budget debate this year. By submitting a budget that postpones consideration of the long-term debt while calling for deep cuts in domestic...
Did Trump’s Budget Chief Really Say Cutting Meals Programs Is ‘Compassionate’?

By Rob Garver

The White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon featured a near-meltdown by Press Secretary Sean Spicer as he sparred with reporters over President Trump’s claims about surveillance during the...
Trump’s NIH Budget Cuts Threaten a Serious Setback in Medical Research

By Eric Pianin

Federal funding for biomedical and scientific research has long been a contentious government issue, with occasional dramatic flare-ups over the choice of grantees and the efficacy of their...
Brought to You By the Trump Budget: Endless PBS Pledge Drives

By Rob Garver

If you think public broadcasting pledge drives are annoying now, just wait until the Trump administration’s proposed budget goes into effect. The plan proposed Thursday guts various government...
Will Steve Bannon Go to War Against the Big Banks?

By Ciro Scotti

There are several factors that could make a “Glass-Steagall for the 21st Century” — which Trump called for last October and which Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said at his confirmation hearing...

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