Budget Battles
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Greene Backs Off Johnson Threat, but Issues Four Demands
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Social Security, Medicare Get Boost From Strong Economy
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Biden and Trump Joust Over Jobs Report
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IRS Unveils Plan to Crack Down on the Rich
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’ll Force Vote to Oust Johnson
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Democrats Say They’re Ready to Rescue Mike Johnson
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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Why Presidential Candidates ‘Suspend’ Their Campaigns but Don’t End Them
By Millie DentThe field of White House candidates keeps dwindling as one presidential hopeful after another pulls out of the race. Yet the candidates inevitably say they are “suspending” their campaigns, not...
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16 Tycoons Who Give the Most Campaign Cash
By Hunter Walker, Business InsiderWall Street donors are a massive source of cash for political candidates. Thanks to Crowdpac, a data firm dedicated to informing citizens about the political process , Business Insider has identified...
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Senate’s Promise to Work Fridays Is Broken by Thursday
By Rob GarverThe promise that the Senate under Republican control would work longer hours – and even Fridays – lasted exactly as long as it took for members to have to actually consider really working on Friday...
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GOP Sees Popularity Surge Ahead of Senate Takeover
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesThis year keeps getting better and better for the GOP. After a sweeping victory in the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are enjoying a surge of popularity as they stand poised to take control of...
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Two Incoming Senators, Two Different Approaches
By Rob GarverWhen the new Congress convenes in January, newly minted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to assert control of his Republican majority. On Sunday morning, two of his Senators-elect showed...
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Budget Breakdown at GOP: Who Will Lead the Committee?
By PAUL KANE, The Washington PostJeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) were elected to the Senate on the same day in 1996, but Enzi holds seniority over his longtime friend through a totally random feature of party rules:...
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The State of the American Electorate in 9 Numbers
By CHRIS CILLIZZA, The Washington PostThe best thing about elections — if you are a numbers nerd like me — is the massive amount of raw data about the American public and what they think, as well as the how and why of it. Yes, only about...
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Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt
By Eric PianinLargely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...
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Perry Might Have to Run for President While on Trial
By Eric PianinTough luck for Texas Gov. Rick Perry: While the rest of the likely GOP presidential candidates are hitting the campaign trail next year, Perry may be standing trial in Austin on government corruption...
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Obama’s ‘Nothing to Left to Lose’ Strategy: 3 Moves That Enrage the GOP
By Eric PianinBasking in the glow of the Republicans’ tidal wave election victory last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky raised the possibility that the GOP and President Obama could strike...
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At $111 Million, No. Carolina Was the Costliest Race
By Eric PianinBy far, the mid-term Senate election campaign in North Carolina was the most expensive Senate race in history, totaling more than $111 million spent by both sides. But in terms of cost of campaigning...
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Obama Accepts Blame for Dems’ Midterm Election Losses
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesPresident Obama took the blame on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning for the wave of Democratic losses in the midterm elections, declaring “the buck stops” with him. He added that Democrats failed to...
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The New Senate Power Grid: Here’s Who Has the Juice
By Eric PianinGet ready for a real shakeup in the Senate committee lineup in the wake of the GOP election victory last Tuesday. While most attention will be focused this week on Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ascension to...
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GOP Could Cut Funds to Scuttle Obama’s Immigration Order
By Eric PianinCongressional Republicans apparently are considering a preemptive strikes against President Obama’s threatened use of an executive order to overhaul the immigration laws by using the appropriations...
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They Won the Midterms—Here’s How the GOP Can Win in the Long Term
By Caroline BaumWhether it was a wave, a sweep or merely a vote for a less-bad option, Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives. Public polling...