-
He really did it. President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in an attempt to bypass Congress and redirect existing funds toward construction of his promised wall along the southern...
-
Roses are red, Violets are blue, President Trump will sign the spending deal and declare a national emergency too.
OK, it’s not the most romantic of gestures, but you could call it a Valentine’s Day...
-
With Democratic proposals to provide “Medicare for all” increasingly in the headlines — and increasingly the subject of debate over whether the program would or should involve eliminating private...
-
Growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending per enrollee was slower than in private insurance between 2006 and 2017, according to an analysis released this week by the Urban Institute.
Medicare spending...
-
Will he or won’t he?
After House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative agreement Monday night on a bipartisan border security deal, the looming question is whether President Trump will veto the...
-
The Congressional Budget Office projected last month that the federal budget deficit for this year would be about $900 billion, up 15 percent from last year but about $84 billion less than it had...
-
Collapsed. Derailed. Fell apart. Broke down. Whatever description you choose, the bottom line on the bipartisan congressional negotiations over border security isn’t good: The talks, which had...
-
Congressional negotiators looking to hammer out a bipartisan border security spending deal and prevent another government shutdown at the end of next week are reportedly closing in on their goal.
“We...
-
President Trump on Wednesday said he’d be open to discussing changes to the 2017 GOP tax law’s $10,000 limit on the deductibility of state and local taxes.
“There are some people from New York who...
-
The GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may not be working as promised, but it’s certainly helped generate plenty of new jobs for tax lawyers and accountants, The Wall Street Journal’s Richard Rubin reports...
-
The bipartisan congressional committee working on a border security deal is reportedly getting close to an agreement that would avoid another partial government shutdown at the end of next week. The...
-
President Trump’s 82-minute-long State of the Union address Tuesday night put a uniquely Trumpian spin on the usual recipe for the address: a healthy helping of rah-rah patriotism and legislative...
