Budget Battles
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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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Johnson Faces Battle for the Speaker's Gavel
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Extending Trump Tax Cuts Would Benefit Top Earners the Most: Treasury
As Republicans prepare to extend the 2017 Trump-era tax cuts that are currently scheduled to expire at the end of the year — or make them permanent — a new analysis by the Treasury Department finds...
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$2 Trillion in Spending Cuts? Musk Now Says DOGE Might Get to $1 Trillion
By Michael RaineyElon Musk has made some big claims about the potential savings to be won by the efficiency effort he is leading under the new Trump administration, but on Thursday he admitted that the $2 trillion...
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’: Reports
President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a meeting with Senate Republicans Wednesday night insisting that, whether it’s in one bill or two, his agenda will get enacted — but his comments made clear...
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump again raised the idea of the United States taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal as he rambled through a series of grievances and complaints — some familiar, some...
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Trump Doubles Down on Universal Tariff Policy
By Michael RaineyPresident-elect Trump has vowed to impose a new slate of tariffs on imported goods as part of an effort to boost domestic production, raise federal revenues and punish competing nations, but the...
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Johnson Wins Speaker’s Gavel After GOP Holdouts Flip Votes
By Michael RaineyThe outcome was uncertain until the final moment, but Republicans on Friday succeeded in electing Mike Johnson to a new term as speaker of the House, kicking off the 119th Congress and a new era of...
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Another $20 Billion Cut from IRS Funding
By Michael RaineyThe battle over enhanced funding for the IRS took a new twist in December as Republican lawmakers set up another $20 billion cut for the tax agency in the short-term funding deal that prevented a...
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Has Trump Already Lost His Iron Grip on the Republican Party?
It was a squeaker, but Congress got it done. The federal government is open and funded into next year, and there will not be a Christmas shutdown after President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the...
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House Votes to Dodge Shutdown, Ditching Trump Debt Limit Demand
With just hours to go before a midnight shutdown deadline, the House on Friday evening overwhelmingly passed a stopgap plan to keep federal agencies open until the middle of March, provide disaster...
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Biden Administration Scraps Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration indicated Friday that it is scrapping its proposed plan to provide student loan forgiveness for upwards of 25 million borrowers. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that...
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Trump-Approved Spending Plan Goes Down in Flames
President-elect Donald Trump and House Republican leaders had a Plan B to avoid a partial government shutdown this weekend. It just got shot down because of bipartisan opposition. GOP leaders and...
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What Happens if the Government Shuts Down
By Michael RaineyAlthough Republicans have produced a last-minute bill that would avoid a government shutdown, there’s still a fair chance that lawmakers will fail to agree on the path forward in the next 36 hours,...
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Trump Torpedoes Johnson’s Bipartisan Government Funding Deal
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday upended efforts to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, blasting a bipartisan deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and calling for a...
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Republicans Fume Over ‘Dumpster Fire’ Funding Bill
Congress is once again rushing to pass a stopgap measure to fund the government and avoid a shutdown of federal agencies — and, as has so often been the case in recent years, the process has spun...
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Trump Talks Tariffs, Border Wall, Vaccines and Much, Much More
By Michael RaineyI n his first press conference since winning a second term in the White House last month, President-elect Donald Trump took a freewheeling tour through a wide range of topics, touching on subjects...