Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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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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House GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan Has Major Gaps in Cost and Coverage
By Eric PianinHouse Republicans Monday night unveiled their long-anticipated plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a conservative, market-based approach that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R...
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Why Trump Won’t Touch Entitlement Reform…Yet
Trump needs a lot of money to pay for his grand plans. But tinkering with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterm elections next year is playing with fire.
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Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan
Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump met with outgoing president Barack Obama to start planning the transition. Until then, the Republican successor to the White House had...
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Trump Can’t Make America Great If He Kicks the Medicare Can Down the Road
Republicans in Washington face a tough question after unexpectedly winning the presidency and controlling the Senate in the 2016 elections. They have regained single-party governance for the first...
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GOP Leaders’ Tepid Praise Spells Trouble If Trump Wins
By Rob GarverCLEVELAND, Ohio -- The two most powerful Republicans in Congress last night presided over the formal nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election, and of...
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House GOP Leaders and Trump Find Common Ground on New Tax Proposals
By Eric PianinAlthough Congress has put off any serious consideration of comprehensive tax reform until next year, House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled a far ranging wish list of measures designed to spur...
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This Is Exactly Why Paul Ryan Didn't Want to Be Speaker of the House
By Rob GarverPaul Ryan never wanted to be speaker of the House, and Wednesday was a perfect example of why. The guy who made his reputation as the Republicans’ wonk-in-chief as chairman of the Budget Committee...
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Republicans Get Their Pound of Flesh by Censuring the Head of the IRS
By Charles Clark, Government ExecutiveIn the latest in their bid to impeach the Internal Revenue Commissioner, Republicans on the House Oversight panel on Wednesday used a business meeting to approve a resolution 23-15 “condemning and...
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After Endorsing Trump, Paul Ryan Decries ‘Anger’ and ‘Division’ in Politics
By Rob GarverIn this through-the-looking-glass period in U.S. politics, where cognitive dissonance has become more normal than remarkable, there shouldn’t be much left that surprises us. The Republican National...
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One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard
In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...
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'Wetback' Comment: Yet Another Step Back for GOP?
By Eric PianinVeteran Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska has triggered a political uproar with his radio comments referring to Latino workers as “wetbacks.” House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders...
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A Republican Who Could Actually Win The Presidency
By David Francis and Eric PianinAccording to the Republican National Party’s own analysis, all of the Republicans currently vying for the 2016 presidential nomination are unlikely to win a national election. So we invented one who...
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Why Voters Trust the GOP with Their Tax Dollars...
By Liz PeekRepublicans are deep into self-criticism. Stung by November’s losses, GOP elders have released a report pushing the party to escape its “ideological cul-de-sac” and to “learn from successful...
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Why Tax Reform Will Still Cost a Small Fortune
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesNo one denies the need to simplify the tax code. It is sprawling, obtuse, and an absolute time suck for millions of Americans -- something not lost on House Republicans when they unveiled their 2014...
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Republican Soul Searching Could Reboot the GOP
By Eric Pianin and David FrancisThe national GOP on Monday issued a searing self-examination of its party, warning that the GOP is woefully out of step with the rest of the country and is doomed to secondary status without a major...