Budget Battles
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Trump Ratchets Up His Tariff Threats
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Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect to Oversee Budget
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Trump Taps Hedge Fund Mogul for Treasury Secretary
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Trump Picks a New Attorney General Nominee After Gaetz Withdraws
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Johnson Signals Plan for Looming Shutdown Deadline
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Reuters Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought to Oversee Budget Office
By Michael RaineyPresident-elect Donald Trump has selected Russell Vought to run the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the executive branch. The decision brings one of the architects of the...
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National Debt Tops $36 Trillion
By Michael RaineyOn Thursday, the gross U.S. national debt surpassed $36 trillion for the first time, according to data from the Treasury Department . Debt held by the public – a subset of the gross national debt...
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Chart of the Day: Unauthorized Spending
By Michael RaineyElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said this week that they plan to target billions of dollars in “unauthorized” federal spending as part of their effort to trim waste from the budget. “DOGE will help end...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to Coordinate With Cost-Cutting Effort by Musk, Ramaswamy
By Michael RaineyRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial Republican firebrand from Georgia, said Thursday that she will head a new House subcommittee that will coordinate with the Department of Government...
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
By Michael RaineyElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the wealthy duo selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead an effort to dramatically reduce the size and scope of government, say they plan to eliminate thousands...
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House GOP Lays Out Priorities for Next Congress
By Michael RaineyRepublicans in the House met behind closed doors Tuesday to lay out their priorities for the new Congress that starts in January, and their to-do list looks pretty familiar to anyone who’s been...
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Ramaswamy Says Some Federal Agencies Could Be ‘Deleted Outright’
By Michael RaineyVivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur who has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead a new and as yet undefined “Department of Government Efficiency” tasked with slashing...
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Biden Requests $98 Billion for Disaster Relief
By Michael RaineyPresident Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to provide $98.4 billion in emergency funding in response to a host of natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton this past fall. The funds...
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Johnson Signals He’ll Look to Push Funding Fight Into 2025
The lame-duck Congress faces a government shutdown deadline in just over a month, meaning that lawmakers will need to fund federal agencies into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated...
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Congressional Republicans Choose Johnson, Thune as Leaders
House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Speaker Mike Johnson to keep his gavel in n the next Congress and Senate Republicans picked Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell,...
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Biden Calls on Lawmakers to ‘Step Up’ With Hurricane Aid
President Biden and other administration officials warned Friday that Congress will soon need to provide more funding to aid the response to hurricanes Helene and Milton. “We’re going to be going to...
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Biden Calls on Congress to Return and Provide More Hurricane Aid
After Hurricane Milton swept across Florida overnight, leaving a trail of destruction and millions of people without power, President Biden on Thursday called on Congress to come back to Washington,...
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Biden Denounces Trump's 'Onslaught of Lies' on Hurricane Relief
President Biden lashed out repeatedly Wednesday at former President Donald Trump and other Republicans who he accused of undercutting the response effort by promoting conspiracy theories and “...
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Harris Calls for Medicare to Pay for Home Health Care
By Michael RaineyVice President Kamala Harris wants Medicare to start covering the cost of long-term, in-home care for elderly Americans. Appearing on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday morning, Harris outlined her proposal,...
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Trump Would Increase Deficits by $7.5 Trillion, Harris About Half That
By Michael RaineyTax and spending proposals from both presidential candidates would increase budget deficits in the coming years by trillions of dollars, according to a new analysis from the Committee for a...