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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In Gun Battle, NYPD Blue Tests a New Technology
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesNYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly discusses yet another new technology that has the potential to combat gun violence – but it’s not without its privacy concerns. His remarks on "Face the Nation" come...
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Jindal: Go Beyond the Red Ink and Remake the GOP
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesThe GOP is getting prepped for reconstructive surgery. Winning back the White House and public favor will require a facelift of their message and priorities. Polls show that Republicans must connect...
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GOP Mission Impossible: A Balanced Budget in 10 Years
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesHouse Speaker John Boehner thinks the country is shocked to learn that balancing the budget could take as long as 10 years. It should shock his fellow Republicans. The budget passed by the House GOP...
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House GOP's New Plan: A 3-Month Debt Limit Rise
The House will vote next week on a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling for three months, a new strategy unveiled by Republicans at a retreat in Williamsburg, Va.
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Romney May Be a Victim of His Own 'Romnesia'
By Dan Eggen, The Washington PostTen days after failing to sail into the White House, Mitt Romney is already being tossed overboard by his party. The former Massachusetts governor — who attracted $1 billion in funding and 59 million...