Budget Battles
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Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Against BRICS Nations
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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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Factbox: What happens in a U.S. government shutdown?
By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker and Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker, ReutersIn shutdowns, nonessential government employees are furloughed, or placed on temporary unpaid leave. Workers deemed essential, including those dealing with public safety and national security, keep...
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Trump Tries to Sell Tax Reform to Democrats
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that...
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Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday gained crucial support for a vote on a budget resolution that is vital to President Donald Trump's hopes of signing sweeping tax reform...
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No Talk of Ousting Speaker Ryan, Key Conservative Says
By ReutersMany Republicans are unhappy with the deal President Donald Trump reached last week with Democratic leaders to raise the government's debt ceiling and allow it to continue financing federal spending...
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Congress sends Trump disaster aid, debt limit increase
By Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to provide disaster aid, extend the debt ceiling and fund the federal government for three months on Friday, delivering on...
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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Inspire a Monthly Fast in Protest
While many of us will be looking at or talking about the solar eclipse today, a group of religious anti-hunger activists are trying to draw the public's attention elsewhere. As USA Today reported on...
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Why Trump’s Press Conference Was Disappointing Even Before It Got Controversial
President Trump's statement from Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon was supposed to be about what the White House called “the Infrastructure Discussion” — but that’s not what’s being discussed after...
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Budget Hawks Call for ‘Mini-Bargain’ to Address the Debt and Deficit
By Rob GarverPerhaps it’s a mark of diminished expectations of the federal government’s ability to get things done, or just a concession to the reality that the country’s fiscal problems are simply too large to...
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The Looming Fiscal Train Wreck Means Trump Won’t Get His Wall. Here’s Why
By Eric Pianin and Rob GarverCongress has religiously missed its deadline for passing a budget and related spending bills for eight consecutive years. And from the looks of a looming fiscal train wreck this fall, congressional...
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Here We Go Again: GOP Infighting Battles Loom Over Budget
By Rob GarverThe GOP's failure to repeal and replace Obamacare after seven years of promising to do just that is a serious blow to the party’s credibility as a governing majority. But to fail on both the ACA...
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Here Are the 5 Key Changes in the GOP Budget
By Eric PianinNearly three months behind schedule and wracked by often bitter dissension within its ranks, the Republican controlled House Budget Committee finally hammered out a new fiscal 2018 budget resolution...
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The US Loses Ground in Providing Retirement Security to Baby Boomers
By Eric PianinA new global index of best practices by policy makers, employers and asset managers found that the United States is losing ground in providing economic and financial security and improved health care...
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Senate Republicans May Try to Skirt CBO Score on Health Care Bill
By Rob GarverAccording to a report from the Independent Journal Review, GOP leaders are considering a plan that would let them bypass the CBO entirely on a key element of their most recent legislative proposal...
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Trump’s Budget Falls Far Short of Pledge to Wipe Out the Deficit: CBO
By Eric PianinPresident Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2018 already has encountered stiff resistance from Republicans and Democrats alike and is unlikely to be embraced in its entirety when the House and...