Budget Battles
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
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New Poll Finds Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Tax the Super-Rich
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Biden Vows US Will Pay to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ on the 2024 Spending Bills
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown, Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
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Debt Will Hit Record High This Decade, CBO Warns
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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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How Do You Get Millennials to the Polls? Maybe Puppies Will Help
By Maxwell Tani, Business InsiderNow, one of the most well-funded super PACs on the left is hoping dogs can help accomplish a truly difficult trick: Motivate millennials to vote. NextGen Climate, billionaire investor Tom Steyer's...
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An Algorithm With a Solid Track Record Is Predicting a Trump Win
By Arjun Kharpal, CNBCAn artificial intelligence (AI) system that correctly predicted the last three U.S. presidential elections puts Republican nominee Donald Trump ahead of Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the race to...
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Here’s How Trump Is Interpreting the Strongest GDP Growth in Two Years
By Rob GarverData released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis found that economic growth, rather than falling, actually more than doubled, to a 2.9 percent annualized rate in the third quarter -- the best number...
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With GOP House Seats in Jeopardy, Paul Ryan’s Job Becomes Even Tougher
By Eric PianinHouse Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) arguably has one of the most thankless jobs in politics, and it’s likely to get a lot worse very soon. Saddled with an unruly GOP majority in the House comprised...
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Does Trump Really Still Have a Shot?
By Ciro ScottiAfter all the bombast and blunders. After Pussygate, Gropegate and “Nasty Woman.” After repeatedly disrespecting the parents of a heroic Muslim-American soldier. After suggesting he will not accept...