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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.

How Republicans Got Trapped by Their Health Care Promises

By Edward Morrissey

During the election campaign in 2015 and 2016, Donald Trump repeatedly insisted that he didn’t want anything to do with entitlement reform. Even while promising to repeal Obamacare and Medicaid...
Trump’s ‘Tax Return’ Offers Little Substantive Information

By Rob Garver

The supposed bombshell release of President Trump’s 2005 tax return on Tuesday night was more of a firecracker. Despite the hype, the documents answer almost none of the real questions that have been...
Why So Many CEOs Are Cozying Up to Trump

By David Dayen

I’ve managed to find what I believe is the only explicit show of support for the American Health Care Act outside of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office. Joseph Swedish, the CEO of health insurance...
Medicare Could Save Nearly $16 Billion a Year Negotiating Drug Prices

By Eric Pianin

Because of the ban on direct negotiating, Medicare Part D pays on average 73 percent more than Medicaid and 80 percent more than the Department of Veterans Affairs for brand name drugs. If the law...
Trump Uses His ‘Discredit Tactic’ on CBO to Hedge Against Negative Report

By Eric Pianin

By launching an attack on the credibility of Washington’s premier budget scorekeeper, the Trump administration signaled on Wednesday that it expects to receive a highly negative report next week from...

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