Budget Battles
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Johnson Faces Battle for the Speaker's Gavel
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Has Trump Already Lost His Iron Grip on the GOP?
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House Votes to Dodge Shutdown, Ditching Trump Demand
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Trump-Approved Spending Plan Goes Down in Flames
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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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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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Why Political Talk Is Causing Problems at Work
The election may have ended months ago, but American workers are still talking politics at the office, and it’s stressing them out. A new survey from the American Psychological Association finds that...
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Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
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Why State Governors Will Determine the Future of US Health Care
By Eric PianinPresident Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) have fueled speculation that the House will try again to revive the Republican’s health care legislation. The latest wrinkle is an amendment that...
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Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done
By Rob GarverThe idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
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Why It’s Too Soon to Count Steve Bannon Out
By Ciro ScottiThe MSM (mainstream media), as right-wing coo-coo clocks like Ann Coulter like to call America’s press corps, are delirious with glee over infighting within the White House and practically drooling...
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It’s Easy to See Where the Trump-Russia Investigation Is Headed
By Rob GarverIt became plain on Monday that as the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign drags on, Democrats and Republicans are...
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The 20 Richest People in the World
By Janna HerronSince Election Day, the stock market has jumped 11 percent, growing the net worth of Americans with 401(k)s and other investments. Some of the world’s richest people have not fared quite as well.
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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...
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Trump’s Historically Low Approval Rating Proves One Thing – He’s Doing It His Way
It may be no surprise to the majority of Americans that Donald Trump’s job approval rating is unprecedented compared with nine other presidents during their first year in office, as Gallup shows in a...
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6 Remarkable Moments From Trump’s Wild Press Conference
By Rob GarverIn a long, rambling press conference early Thursday afternoon, President Trump dismissed a number of the controversies swirling around his presidency a “fake news,” insisted that his White House,...
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Why Can’t Trump Get His Story Straight on Intelligence Leaks and Fake News?
By Rob GarverIf President Trump’s Twitter feed were a novel, it would have what critics call “continuity” problems.
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Trump Has Found His Alter-Ego in Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Rob GarverThe Senate’s vote to confirm Jeff Sessions as Attorney General Wednesday night is a watershed moment for the new Trump administration, because the former Alabama senator is, far more than any of...