Budget Battles
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Key Inflation Measure Falls to Lowest Level Since Early 2021
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Speaker Johnson Promises ‘Massive Reform’ of Healthcare if Trump Wins
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Harris’s Closing Argument: Let's Turn the Page on Trump
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At Incendiary NYC Rally, Trump Floats Another Tax Break
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Bad News for Harris as the Polls Tighten Up
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Trump’s Impossible Tax Cut
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Harris Economic Plan 'Vastly Superior,' 23 Nobel Prize Winners Say
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Here’s How to Tell If John Kelly Really Has the White House Under Control
By Rob GarverPresident Trump’s decision to replace former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, until recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is...
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US Seen as Major Global Threat Along with ISIS, Climate Change: Pew Poll
A new Pew Research Center poll of nearly 42,000 people across 38 countries found the threat of climate change is nearly as great as terrorism from ISIS. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that...
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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Why Political Talk Is Causing Problems at Work
The election may have ended months ago, but American workers are still talking politics at the office, and it’s stressing them out. A new survey from the American Psychological Association finds that...
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Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
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Why State Governors Will Determine the Future of US Health Care
By Eric PianinPresident Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) have fueled speculation that the House will try again to revive the Republican’s health care legislation. The latest wrinkle is an amendment that...
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Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done
By Rob GarverThe idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
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Why It’s Too Soon to Count Steve Bannon Out
By Ciro ScottiThe MSM (mainstream media), as right-wing coo-coo clocks like Ann Coulter like to call America’s press corps, are delirious with glee over infighting within the White House and practically drooling...
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It’s Easy to See Where the Trump-Russia Investigation Is Headed
By Rob GarverIt became plain on Monday that as the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign drags on, Democrats and Republicans are...
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The 20 Richest People in the World
By Janna HerronSince Election Day, the stock market has jumped 11 percent, growing the net worth of Americans with 401(k)s and other investments. Some of the world’s richest people have not fared quite as well.
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Can We Afford Trump’s Border Wall With Mexico?
Before President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration unleashed a firestorm of debate and waves of protests, it was his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border that was grabbing attention...
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Did Trump Just Say That Honoring the Geneva Conventions Is for Fools?
By Rob GarverIn an interview that aired Wednesday night, President Trump reacted bluntly and viscerally to critics who say his suggestion that the US should have pillaged Iraq’s oil is effective advocacy of a war...
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Meet the Man Who Will Explain Trump to the World’s Great Economic Powers
By Rob GarverPresident Trump, who has promised to utterly reshape the United States’ economic relationship with the rest of the world, has named the man who will be the public face of that change for many of the...
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No, Trump Didn’t Just Make the Day He Took Office a National Holiday
By Rob GarverSocial media went into freak-out mode on Monday after reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had declared the day of his inauguration a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.” Outraged reaction...
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The Power of the Pink Hat: Here’s How Democrats Can Win America Back
By David DayenAfter searching in vain for enthusiasm throughout 2016, Democrats found it in the streets the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, as over 3 million attended the Women’s Marches to protest the...