Budget Battles
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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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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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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Why Trump’s Romance With Big Labor Is Headed for the Rocks
By Rob GarverLabor unions are, to put it kindly, not generally supportive of Republican politicians. There are exceptions, of course, but historically, Democrats have been seen as the party of workers, and...
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Dems Call for Their Party’s Autopsy--But Won’t Admit the Patient Is Dead
It might be the first political self-autopsy for an organization that refuses to admit its own death – and especially its own culpability in it.
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Will Trump Restore 4% Growth or Crash the Economy?
By Marc JoffeThe Trump administration predicts that its policies will return America to 4 percent annual economic growth, last seen in the 1980s and 1990s. As the new president correctly points out, growth during...
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Early Signs of ‘Nuclear Warfare’ in Clashes Over Trump’s Cabinet Picks
By Eric Pianin and Rob GarverThere is mounting speculation that Senate Republicans will invoke the “nuclear option” and change the rules to prevent Democrats from filibustering President Trump’s nomination of federal appeals...
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How Long Can Trump Tolerate the ‘President Bannon’ Headlines?
By Rob GarverIf there is anything we have learned about Donald Trump since he descended his golden escalator 18 months ago to announce his presidential campaign, it’s that his ego is easily bruised and that he...