Budget Battles
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The 2025 Spending Fight Has Officially Begun — and It’s Going to Be Big
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Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge to Consumer Watchdog
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Inflation Eases in April, Lifting Hopes for a Soft Landing
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Biden Jacks Up Tariffs on $18 Billion in Chinese Imports
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Trump Promises New Tax Cuts for Everyone
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Biden White House Lays Out Plan for Coming Tax Showdown
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Trump Tax Cut Extension Would Cost $4.6 Trillion: CBO
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Why Big Banks Could Still Pay a Big Price for the Housing Crisis
By Rob GarverIn a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court has opened...
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The Threatened Gorsuch Filibuster Will Backfire on Democrats for a Long Time
By Liz PeekThe Donnybrook over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court makes it clear: the Extreme Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. That’s a tragedy for Democrats, and for the country.
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McConnell Prepared to Invoke ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Gorsuch
By Eric PianinSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed on Sunday that – one way or another – the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by the end of...
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The Gorsuch Vote Will Show the Democrats Can’t Govern, Either
Senate Democrats had come under severe pressure from progressive activist groups to find a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, part of a strategy of “resistance” to the Trump...
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Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Travel Ban
By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington PostA federal appeals court has maintained the freeze on President Trump’s controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can...
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Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks
By Eric PianinThe administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban on...
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Trump May Be the First Test Case for His Own Supreme Court Nominee
By Rob GarverIt cannot have been an easy weekend for Judge Neil Gorsuch. At a time that ought to be one of the high points of his life, one wonders if the Colorado jurist tapped by President Trump to fill the...
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Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch
“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated...
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Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination: One Way or the Other, This Ends Badly
By Rob GarverNo matter how it turns out, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will end with one of the two major parties claiming that they have been grossly mistreated, and insisting that...
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As Trump Mulls SCOTUS Pick, Here Are The Three Top Contenders
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is poised to pay back many of its general election supporters with a Supreme Court pick in the mold of, as the new vice president recently described him, “the late, great...
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Trump Releases SCOTUS List as Peace Offering to Conservatives
By Rob GarverA move aimed at shoring up his support among conservative Republicans who remain unconvinced of his commitment to their values, Donald Trump on Wednesday released a list of 11 federal judges from...
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GOP SCOTUS Stalling Has Nothing to Do with ‘The People’
By Rob GarverThe supposed principle on which Senate Republicans have been refusing to consider President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to serve on the Supreme Court has been that the American people...
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North Korea Lashes Out at China, Threatens a ‘Nuclear Storm’
By Rob GarverMark Twain once noted, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.” It’s a lesson China is learning about...
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Here’s Why the GOP Dug in Its Heels on SCOTUS Nominations
By Rob GarverIf Senate Republican leaders jumped the gun on opposing an Obama Supreme Court pick, it’s because unexpected death of one of the court’s most conservative jurists is, for Republicans and their...
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16 Things You Should Know About Merrick Garland, Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
By Millie DentPresident Obama on Wednesday nominated federal Judge Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia early last month. “I’ve selected a nominee who is...