Budget Battles
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House Passes Massive Defense Bill
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Trump’s Tax and Tariff Plans Are a ‘Major Mistake,’ Biden Warns
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Trump ‘Can’t Guarantee’ Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices
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Job Growth Surges, but Unemployment Rate Creeps Higher
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Musk and Ramaswamy Hit Capitol Hill for DOGE ‘Brainstorming’
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Republicans Already Clashing Over Trump Policy Rollout
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Trump Vows to Block Sale of US Steel to Japanese Company
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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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Republicans Can’t Agree on a Budget – and It’s Hurting Their Agenda
By Eric PianinFor the second week in a row, members of Congress have been hammering President Trump’s proposed budget for the coming year – and much of the criticism is coming from Trump’s own Party.
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Gen. Mattis Gets Hammered on Military Performance Problems that He Vows to Fix
By Eric PianinOn the same day that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) berated Defense Secretary James Mattis for lacking a strategy for winning the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan, the Government Accountability Office (...
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How the Trump Budget Reforms Social Security Disability Insurance
By Eric PianinPresident Trump’s budget unveiled last month contains numerous policy changes and experimental programs in the Social Security Disability Insurance program that the administration claims could save...
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Trump’s Smoke-and-Mirrors Infrastructure Plan
By Rob Garver and Eric PianinEven before Trump stepped on his own message Monday morning, it was obvious that “infrastructure week” was going to be a tough slog. After months of promising a trillion-dollar infrastructure program...
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White House’s Debt Ceiling Battle Could Trigger a Shutdown — and a Recession
By Eric PianinAt a time when worldwide confidence in the U.S. has already been badly shaken by President Trump’s go-it-alone, “America First” approach to trade, NATO and climate change, a White House riven by...