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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Congressional Odd Couple Finally Strikes a Budget Deal
By Eric PianinHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) announced a two-year budget deal Tuesday evening that will cancel automatic across the...
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Americans in Poverty at 12 % Thanks to Safety Net
By Eric PianinThere was a time when House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan was the Grim Reaper of government social safety net programs. The 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee first made his name in Washington...
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Cynical Americans Aren’t Banking on a Budget Deal
By Eric PianinAmericans could get an early Christmas gift in the form of a budget deal from Congress that would cancel a second round of across-the-board sequester cuts and avoid the risk of another government...
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The Idea Man Influencing Paul Ryan’s Anti-Poverty Plan
By Danny Vinik, Business InsiderTo help him develop new ideas, the Manhattan Institute's Scott Winship has been working with Ryan in recent months.
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Why Paul Ryan May Be the One to Beat in 2016
By Eric PianinStung by President Obama’s pummeling of the Romney-Ryan GOP presidential ticket last November, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had appeared to fade from view. “He seems to have fallen entirely off the radar of...