Budget Battles
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package
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GOP Infighting Continues as Senate Heads for Aid Vote
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News Alert: House Approves $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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Johnson Defies Hardliners, Pushes Ahead With Foreign Aid Plan
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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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Trump Plays War Games on Twitter, and Americans Are Getting Worried
By Eric PianinAmericans are feeling uneasy about President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to deal with international challenges and use military force wisely, and the real estate mogul is providing them with plenty...
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Senate Dems Plan to ‘Slam the Brakes’ on Trump’s Cabinet Nominees
By Rob GarverDemocratic leaders in the Senate promise a tooth-and-nail battle with Republicans over President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to a slew of senior cabinet positions. They’re calling for extensive...
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Why Trump Needs to Take the Economy More Seriously
By Mark ThomaDonald Trump tried to take credit for Sprint’s plan to create 5,000 jobs in the U.S. The plans were in place before the election, so there is some question about how much credit he should get. But...
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Is Trump’s VA Plan a Solution in Search of a Problem?
By Rob GarverDonald Trump went a step closer to transforming the way the Department of Veterans Affairs delivers healthcare this week by sending an aide to brief reporters on a plan that could allow vets eligible...
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Trump Rips Obama on Transition ... Then Praises Him
By Rob GarverOne of the biggest worries that critics of Donald Trump have about the incoming president of the United States is about who the soon-to-be leader of the most powerful nation on the planet listens to...