Budget Battles
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Trump Lashes Out, Biden Blasts ‘Reckless’ Attacks
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Trump Guilty x 34
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Key Republican Calls for Massive Military Spending Surge
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Trump Woos Wealthy Donors With Promises of Huge Tax Cuts
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Republicans Block Bipartisan Border Bill a Second Time
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Biden Cancels Billions More in Student Loan Debt
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‘A Large and Costly Mistake’: Unions Slam Trump Tax Cuts
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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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Trump Has Just Raised the Stakes With Moscow and Tehran in Three Risky Moves
President Trump made three big moves on Syria and Iran this week. They crisscross and contradict one another, but the administration’s game plan in the Middle East just got a lot clearer.
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Sending More Troops to Afghanistan Would Be a Historic Mistake
By Marc JoffeEarlier this month, ISIS claimed to have taken Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden’s old hideout in Afghanistan. The Taliban immediately denied ISIS’s claim, insisting that it still held the area. But, in...
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Trump’s Fly-by-Night Mideast ‘Policy’ Embraces the Saudi’s New Crown Prince
It’s not likely that President Trump knew what he was getting into when he embraced the Saudis as the rightful leaders of the Islamic world and the war on terror during his visit to Riyadh last month...
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How Will We Pay the $6 Trillion Bill for the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
By Linda J. Bilmes, The ConversationOn Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Yet the nation’s...
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Here's How Much the 'Mother of All Bombs' Costs
The United States Defense Department likes to show off. After proving it can move with the quick strike capability of a cobra as it did when it launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield ,...
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Why The US Can't Just Take Out Assad
By David Alpher, The ConversationThe Trump administration has done an abrupt about-face on Syria, contradicting its own nascent foreign policy . Within 24 hours, it went from calling out the Assad regime for using chemical weapons...
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Team Trump Still in Search of a Coherent Syria Policy
By Rob GarverMore than 48 hours after President Trump ordered a missile assault on a Syrian government airbase as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians in the town of Idlib,...
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Trump Just Strengthened His Hand on Defense Spending
By Eric PianinIn the wake of U.S. missile strikes against Syria, President Trump’s call for huge increase in defense spending is suddenly looking more likely to succeed.
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Here's What Firing 59 Tomahawk Missiles at Syria's Airfield Cost
Sarin gas is a horrible nerve agent that should never be used on human beings. Even if one doesn't die from exposure, there could be permanent damage to the nervous system after even a short...
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US Has Given Nearly $1 Billion in Property to Afghanistan’s Government
The U.S. Defense Department gave away nearly $1 billion of property to the Afghan government over the course of about five years as the Pentagon worked to shrink its footprint in the war-ravaged...
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Putin Plays Defense in Advance of Corruption Report
By Rob GarverThe Kremlin on Monday took the unusual step of issuing a sort of “pre-buttal” in advance of the publication of an international group of investigative journalists’ report on the personal finances of...
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How ISIS Is Planning to Exploit Europe’s Weak Anti-Terror Security
By Harleen GambhirISIS is using its foreign fighters and safe haven in Iraq and Syria to execute a terror campaign within Europe. ISIS’s March 22 Brussels attacks support a larger strategy to punish, destabilize, and...
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While Europe Girds for the Next Attack, Is the US in ISIS’s Crosshairs?
The terror attacks in Brussels last week fairly zapped the American political conversation. Among our presidential aspirants, it’s suddenly all about foreign policy and national security—a long...
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US Says Momentum Has Shifted in the War Against ISIS
After almost two years, nearly 11,000 airstrikes and more than $6.5 billion in taxpayer money spent, there are new reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic...