Budget Battles
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House Votes to Dodge Shutdown, Ditching Trump Demand
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Trump-Approved Spending Plan Goes Down in Flames
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Trump Blows Up Johnson’s Bipartisan Spending Deal
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Republicans Fume Over ‘Dumpster Fire’ Funding Bill
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Congress Struggles to Reach Deal to Avert Government Shutdown
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GOP Hardliners Say Border Bill Should Come Before Tax Cuts
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Senate Tees Up Vote on a Social Security Boost for Millions
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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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For Those Who Served, Budget Cuts Bite Hard
By LORI MONTGOMERY, The Washington PostAfter 25 years of service, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lt. Col. Stephen Preston retired from the Army and began collecting a pension of nearly $55,000 a year. The money made it...
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Political Gamblers Place Their Bets on Hillary Clinton
Even before the first ad is aired for next year’s midterm elections, the media has played leapfrog and anointed Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie the odds-on favorites to face off in the 2016...
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Obamacare—The Lump of Coal in America’s Stocking
By Liz PeekIn the spirit of the season, I bring tidings of great joy – especially for the GOP . The country continues to heal, but President Obama is not getting much of the credit. Because Republicans in the...
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With Budget Deal Done, Ryan and Murray Eye Tax Reform
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) carefully defended the narrow, two-year bipartisan budget deal he negotiated with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). The bill, which passed the House Thursday by a 332-94 margin, was...
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How Scott Walker Would Reform the GOP
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesIt’s the one question everybody asks, including this reporter: Are you running for president in 2016? It’s also the one question Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin – the Republican reformer who...