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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House GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan Has Major Gaps in Cost and Coverage
By Eric PianinHouse Republicans Monday night unveiled their long-anticipated plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a conservative, market-based approach that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R...
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Why Trump Won’t Touch Entitlement Reform…Yet
Trump needs a lot of money to pay for his grand plans. But tinkering with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterm elections next year is playing with fire.
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Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan
Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump met with outgoing president Barack Obama to start planning the transition. Until then, the Republican successor to the White House had...
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Trump Can’t Make America Great If He Kicks the Medicare Can Down the Road
Republicans in Washington face a tough question after unexpectedly winning the presidency and controlling the Senate in the 2016 elections. They have regained single-party governance for the first...
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GOP Leaders’ Tepid Praise Spells Trouble If Trump Wins
By Rob GarverCLEVELAND, Ohio -- The two most powerful Republicans in Congress last night presided over the formal nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election, and of...
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House GOP Leaders and Trump Find Common Ground on New Tax Proposals
By Eric PianinAlthough Congress has put off any serious consideration of comprehensive tax reform until next year, House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled a far ranging wish list of measures designed to spur...
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This Is Exactly Why Paul Ryan Didn't Want to Be Speaker of the House
By Rob GarverPaul Ryan never wanted to be speaker of the House, and Wednesday was a perfect example of why. The guy who made his reputation as the Republicans’ wonk-in-chief as chairman of the Budget Committee...
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Republicans Get Their Pound of Flesh by Censuring the Head of the IRS
By Charles Clark, Government ExecutiveIn the latest in their bid to impeach the Internal Revenue Commissioner, Republicans on the House Oversight panel on Wednesday used a business meeting to approve a resolution 23-15 “condemning and...
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After Endorsing Trump, Paul Ryan Decries ‘Anger’ and ‘Division’ in Politics
By Rob GarverIn this through-the-looking-glass period in U.S. politics, where cognitive dissonance has become more normal than remarkable, there shouldn’t be much left that surprises us. The Republican National...
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One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard
In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...
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Christie Ignites Convention; Says Obama Botched It
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—living up to his straight talk reputation— confessed to the country on Tuesday night that slashing the size government would cause some pain, but he neglected to...
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If I Were Romney, Here’s what I Would Say…
By Liz Peek“Fellow Americans, I want you to know why I am running for president. Our country, which has been a glorious beacon of hope for more than two centuries, is in danger of losing its way. We are in the...
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Why Christie Won't Mention N.J.'s Unemployment Rate
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesThere’s one number New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie probably won’t mention in his keynote speech Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention: 9.8 percent, his state’s current unemployment rate...
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They Said What? Romney’s Foes Are on the GOP Roster
By Eric Pianin and Brianna EhleyAfter a bitterly fought GOP primary, some of Mitt Romney’s severest critics including Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been given major speaking roles at the Republican National Convention in...
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GOP Platform Dilutes Romney’s Focus on Economy
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesDelegates to the Republican national convention will adopt a platform on Tuesday that represents a major triumph for the economic and social conservatives that make up the party’s activist base. The...