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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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict
Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
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After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next
The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
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How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?
Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
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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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If Demographics Is Destiny, 80 Million Millennials Will Decide America’s Future
By Liz PeekIt wasn’t James Comey that torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. It wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn who upset Teresa May. It wasn’t fed-up workers who gave the National Front their best-ever showing in...
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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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As Puerto Rico Votes on Statehood, Economic Distress Looms Large
By Leslie Picker, CNBCSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The question of "status," whether Puerto Rico should be admitted as a U.S. state, remain a commonwealth or seek sovereignty — has been an undercurrent of every major policy...
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Democrats May Be Blowing Their Best Chance for a Big Win Against the GOP
By Eric PianinDemocrats are improving their standing on the issues nationally, but the party is holding back on spending in a key congressional race in Georgia.
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The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationJohn H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
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EPA Chief’s Magical Thinking: Push Energy Production and Protect the Planet
By Eric PianinThe Trump administration offered a foretaste of its environmental policy with a speech on Tuesday by Scott Pruitt, the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Pruitt vowed to do as much to...
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Trump Scores a Bipartisan Win With His Pick for National Security Adviser
By Rob GarverIn a moment that must feel unfamiliar to the nascent Trump administration, the president’s choice to fill the shoes of departed National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is drawing almost uniform...
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In the Age of Trump, Who Can US Allies Believe?
By Rob GarverUnder other circumstances, comments about Vice President Mike Pence made by Rep. Adam Schiff on Sunday morning would have seemed uncharitable at best, or malicious at worst. The California...
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Priebus Claims Report of Trump Campaign Contacts with Russians Is ‘Garbage’
By Eric PianinWhite House chief of staff Reince Priebus, during multiple appearances today on the Sunday talk shows, stopped just short of agreeing with his boss President Trump that the media is the “enemy of the...
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The Senate Just Confirmed the EPA’s Arch Enemy to Run the Agency
By Eric PianinScott Pruitt, the conservative Oklahoma attorney general who made a career of suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) largely on behalf of the oil and gas industry, narrowly won Senate...