Budget Battles
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Trump Wants to Cut Off Hurricane Maria Relief Funds for Puerto Rico: Report
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Fiscal Mayhem Ahead in 2019 — and 5 Other Takes on the Election Results
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3 Areas Where Trump and Democrats Can Maybe, Possibly Work Together
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Kansas or California as a Model for America’s Future Growth?
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McConnell: Entitlement Cuts Probably Won’t Happen Under Trump
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Republicans Ignore the Obvious Effect of Their Tax Cuts
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Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent to $779 Billion
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Trump’s Border Wall: A Christmastime Clash Is Coming
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GOP Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s Federal Pay Freeze
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Larry Kudlow Wants to Put a ‘Big Dent’ in Government Spending
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Four States That Will Founder When the Next Recession Hits
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Why Trump May Opt for a Shutdown
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Trump Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ Spending Bill: Is a Shutdown Back on the Table?
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Are Deficit Hawks Dead or Just Playing Possum?
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Why Democrats Want to Bring Back Earmarks
Newsletter
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The Growth of Medicare Advantage
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans – which provide more comprehensive coverage than Medicare parts A and B and are managed by private insurers – has more than tripled since 2005, according to a...
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Securing America’s Future Requires Political Courage Now
My son is five. He plays with Legos and digs old-school video games. My daughter is three. She likes dolls and is prone to uncontrollable giggling with no apparent provocation. Neither have much...
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US Military Faces a Crisis and Needs More Money, Report to Congress Warns
America’s military superiority “has eroded to a dangerous degree,” leaving the national security “at greater risk than at any time in decades,” a bipartisan commission warned Wednesday in a...
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Companies Are Using Their Tax Cut Windfall to Pay Down Debt: Moody’s
What are companies doing with their tax cut windfalls? In addition to boosting shareholder returns through buybacks and dividends (more on that here , here and here ), U.S. corporations are placing a...
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The Cost of Post-9/11 Wars Nears $6 Trillion
The total cost of post-9/11 wars will approach $6 trillion by the end of fiscal 2019, according to an annual report published Wednesday by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at...
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America’s Couch Potato Problem Costs $117 Billion a Year
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday issued new guidelines for Americans’ physical activity for the first time in 10 years. The updated recommendations call for people to people to...
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A Grim Forecast for 2020
Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon macroeconomics, looks ahead to 2020 in a new report, noting that economic growth since mid-2016 has been stronger than the rate implied by rising...