Fact-check: Past government shutdowns cost the U.S. economy billions
Government offices and economic analysts found that previous full and partial government shutdowns cost the U.S. multiple ...
Column: Politics past will haunt Washington in 2025. It won’t be pretty
Brace for a MAGA civil war, mayhem courtesy of Elon Musk and Democrats with more leverage than the Nov. 5 election might have ...
China sanctions 7 companies over US military assistance to Taiwan
The sanctions also come in response to the recent approval of the U.S. government’s annual defense spending bill, which a ...
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DAVID BOSSIE: Musk, Ramaswamy’s DOGE Must Make America Solvent Again
President-elect Donald Trump’s bold and innovative decision to create the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under ...
‘Extraordinary measures’ needed by mid-January to keep US from defaulting on national debt, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns Congress
Yellen, in a letter to House and Senate leaders, noted that the nation’s debt ceiling — the total amount of money the federal ...
Some, but not all, funding for cancer research survived federal spending deal chaos
It looked like funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program wasn't going to make it — until something unusual ...
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U.S. House fails to reauthorize 20-year-old bipartisan bill to fund rural schools, communities
Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill, which passed the Senate but failed to garner ...
Four times Trump made life more complicated for House GOP in 2024
Donald Trump waded into many House Republican battles in 2024, at times lending both a helping hand and a smoking gun to leaders such as Mike Johnson.
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Editorial Roundup: United States
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 23 The Washington Post on President Biden's commutation of death sentences ...