Budget Battles
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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 Announces Another Shocking Cabinet Choice: RFK Jr. for HHS
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Trump’s Stunning Staffing Picks Set Off Political Shockwaves
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Johnson Says This Could Be ‘Most Consequential Congress’ of Modern Times
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Trump Preps for Immigration Crackdown With Key Appointments
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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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Trump’s Stunning Staffing Picks Set Off Political Shockwaves
By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael RaineyVice President Kamala Harris spent much of her failed presidential campaign warning about how Donald Trump might govern if allowed to return to the White House with no guardrails. But Americans...
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Johnson Says This Could Be the ‘Most Consequential Congress’ of Modern Times
By Michael RaineyLawmakers returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday as Washington prepares for a major shift in power following Republicans’ apparent clean sweep of the White House and congressional control in last week's...
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Will Huge Deficits Weigh on GOP Plan to Slash Taxes?
By Michael RaineyAs Republicans prepare to forge a massive tax bill that could potentially pass via a party-line vote early next year, a crucial question hangs over their heads: How much larger are they willing to...
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Trump Names His New Chief of Staff
President-elect Trump on Thursday announced that Susie Wiles, the 67-year-old political operative who led his presidential campaign, will be his White House chief of staff. “Susie Wiles just helped...
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Trump Makes a MAGA Comeback
Donald Trump’s election to a second term in the White House cements an astonishing and historic political comeback, delivering supporters of his MAGA movement a profound sense of vindication while...
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Chart of the Day: About That IRS Money
By Michael RaineyThe Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provided roughly $80 billion for the IRS over 10 years for the purpose of modernizing operations and boosting staff, with the ultimate goal of collecting more...
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Medicaid Enrollment Drops 7.5%, Expected to Fall Further
By Michael RaineyThe Medicaid rolls declined by 7.5% in fiscal year 2024, the nonpartisan policy research group KFF reported this week in its annual survey of state Medicaid directors. The decline is expected to...
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Trump Says Congress Should Reconvene to Deliver More Disaster Relief
We’re down to the final two weeks of the presidential campaign and what was already one of the closest, most tumultuous races in U.S. history is getting even wilder. Former President Donald Trump on...
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Biden Forgives Another $4.5 Billion in Student Debt, Bringing Total to $175 Billion
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration has approved another $4.5 billion in student loan debt relief for public service workers, the Department of Education announced Thursday. The approval will benefit about 60,...