Budget Battles
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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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House Kills Greene Motion to Oust Speaker Johnson
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Greene Backs Off Johnson Threat, but Issues Four Demands
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Social Security, Medicare Get Boost From Strong Economy
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Biden and Trump Joust Over Jobs Report
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IRS Unveils Plan to Crack Down on the Rich
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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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Why Vladimir Putin Knows Exactly Where U.S. Special Forces Are in Syria
The insertion of U.S. Special Forces into Syria became even more bungled on Thursday when the Defense Department revealed that it had asked Russia to avoid bombing certain areas inside the country...
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Abortion, Obamacare, Affirmative Action: Crucial Cases Before the Supremes
By Robert Barnes, The Washington PostThe death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia casts a cloud of uncertainty over a Supreme Court term filled with some of the most controversial issues facing the nation: abortion, affirmative...
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Here’s Why the SCOTUS Battle Could Get So Much Worse
By Rob Garver and Eric PianinWhen the Supreme Court’s conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly over the weekend, setting up a major showdown between a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, a whole...
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A Fight Over Scalia's Seat Is Just What the Fractured GOP Needs
By Liz PeekThe tussle over who should replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could prove a blessing in disguise for Republicans. After years of infighting, the GOP has an opportunity to unite in...
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Senate Republicans Grow Uneasy Over Supreme Court Delay Strategy
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) drew a line in the sand on Saturday by saying that his chamber of Congress won’t even consider President Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice...