Budget Battles
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Has Trump Already Lost His Iron Grip on the GOP?
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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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Trump Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he has picked former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to serve as attorney general, replacing former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
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Harris Quickly Consolidates Democratic Support After Biden Exit
It’s a whole new race! President Joe Biden’s game-changing decision Sunday to end his re-election bid and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him atop the Democratic ticket completely...
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Biden Fails to Stem a Growing Democratic Rebellion
By Michael RaineyA make-or-break press conference Thursday evening ended up neither making nor breaking President Joe Biden and his hold on the Democratic nomination to run against former President Donald Trump this...
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Biden Insists He’s Staying in the Race. Democrats Aren't So Sure.
President Joe Biden has been adamant that he’s not giving up his bid for another term, and he and his aides say that they’re done talking about the dreadful debate performance two weeks ago. Other...
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Biden Defiant Amid Dem Drama: ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’
President Joe Biden’s official schedule for Monday was light, showing only a 10:45 a.m. daily briefing. Biden was plenty busy, though, as he ramped up his efforts to salvage his troubled re-election...
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Democratic Lawmakers Start to Publicly Back Away From Biden
Democrats have been freaking out for days about President Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance last Thursday night. The White House and the Biden campaign have sought to tamp down those concerns...
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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case
Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...
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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict
Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
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Will Democrats Save Kevin McCarthy?
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz indicated again on Monday that he will move this week to force a vote on ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Gaetz, who has long been highly critical of the...
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Trump Impeached Again: What's Next?
The House on Wednesday impeached President Trump for the second time in 13 months, this time for “incitement of insurrection” for his role in trying to overturn the results of the election and...
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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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Trump's drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration
By Sarah N. Lynch and Makini Brice, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. lawmaker who was President Donald Trump's pick for drug czar withdrew on Tuesday after a report he spearheaded a bill that hurt the government's ability to crack down...
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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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U.S. consumer finance agency expected to punish Equifax: lawyers
By Reuters and Patrick RuckerBy Lisa Lambert and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer finance watchdog agency is expected to punish Equifax for its cyber breach with the wide-ranging powers it has used with...
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U.S. incomes, poverty rate bounce back to pre-recession levels in 2016
By ReutersBy Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. poverty rate fell for the second straight year in 2016 while median income rose to an all-time high of $59,000 as the economy made up ground lost...