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Back to SearchDecember 18, 2024: Johnson's CR fight is only beginning
On Tuesday, we finally got the continuing resolution that Republicans on both sides of the Hill were quarreling over. But today, with the fine print …
1 year, 2 months ago
December 17, 2024: Waiting, and waiting, for a CR
Congress is about to head out for holiday break, but there’s one problem: there’s still no sign of a continuing resolution that would fund the govern…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 16, 2024: 2024’s last item on the to-do list
In just five days, lawmakers will leave D.C. for a two-week break, but a bill to fund the government is still pressing. With resistance mounting from…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 13, 2024: A temperature check on Trump’s nominees
After a dizzying week of meetings on Capitol Hill, Trump’s myriad nominees seem to be on firmer ground than they were. But is that because of what wa…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 12, 2024: Why some Dems are cozying up to Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and arguably President-elect Donald Trump’s most important supporter, finds himself being wooed by some unlikely p…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 11, 2024: Is Trump’s Cabinet pressure campaign working?
It may be too late for Matt Gaetz, but President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are engaged in a pressure campaign to ensure his Cabinet picks are confi…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 10, 2024: Bashar al-Assad is gone. What next?
It’s no secret that President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump have profoundly different approaches to foreign policy. With Trump taking of…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 9, 2024: Tulsi Gabbard's Syria problem
While President-elect Donald Trump’s other controversial picks like Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth have been sucking up all the oxygen in Washington, Tu…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 6, 2024: The GOP’s DOGE-eat-DOGE era
GOP’s DOGE days have arrived on Capitol Hill. Yesterday, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-heads of the so-called Department of Government Effici…
1 year, 2 months ago
December 5, 2024: Pete Hegseth’s last stand
With his nomination for Defense secretary teetering on the brink, Pete Hegseth will soon learn whether his 11th-hour offensive yesterday to save his …
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