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  1. early and often
    How Poor People Will Pay for Trump’s AgendaTrump’s campaign promises, from tax cuts to mass deportation, all but guarantee another attack on Obamacare, Medicaid, and other low-income programs.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. congress
    A Brief Guide to Congress’s Packed Summer ScheduleWith conflicting reports on late-night talks and meaningless failed votes, it’s hard to track what Congress is doing. Here’s their pre-recess plan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. politics
    Big Deadlines Stand Between Congress and Its Hot Vax RecessSchumer hopes the threat of spending August in D.C. will spark movement on the infrastructure deal and the budget reconciliation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. the national interest
    Biden’s FDR-size BetThe president is rallying Democrats behind a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package. It could be the key to winning 2024.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. budget
    Senate Dems Start Loading a $3.5 Trillion Bazooka to Pass Biden’s AgendaA new agreement would dodge a Republican filibuster to expand the welfare state, but many issues are yet to be resolved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. climate change
    New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells Testifies Before the Senate on ClimateAuthor of The Uninhabitable Earth on the cost of inaction.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  7. congress
    Congress Learns Pentagon Wasted $1 Trillion, Promptly Gives It Bigger BudgetHours after learning that the Pentagon lied to taxpayers while wasting their money in Afghanistan, Congress awards the DoD a $22 billion budget hike.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. After Blowing Up the Deficit, House Passes Mostly Phony Spending CutsThis “spending clawback” bill involves the budgetary equivalent of sofa-cushion money.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. 5 Liberal Priorities That Were Funded in Last Week’s Budget BillFor a minority party, Democrats ended up doing pretty well.
    By Benjamin Hart
  10. GOP Congressional Leaders Ready to Wrap Up 2018 Very SoonCongress will soon find reasons not to act on much of what was supposed to represent its 2018 agenda — other than campaigning for reelection.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. the national interest
    Republicans Look to Blame Someone for the Deficit Mess. Guess Who They Found.Somehow, tax cuts plus more defense spending led to more red ink. It’s so weird.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. 4 Reasons to Ignore Trump’s BudgetTrump just signed a congressional budget deal on Friday. His own budget was out-of-date even as it was being printed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. the national interest
    Republicans Stopped Sabotaging the Economy Because They Have the White House NowFiscal contraction for Democratic presidents, fiscal stimulus for Republican ones.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. Senate Reaches a Budget Deal That Lets Everyone WinExcept for Dreamers and deficit hawks.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. Cruz Wants to Launch One More Harpoon at the Great White Whale of ObamacareWithout the budget reconciliation process, the GOP can’t pass party-line legislation. McConnell would prefer to stand pat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. The GOP Is No Longer Trying to Hide Its Inhuman PrioritiesThe GOP just voted to add $1.5 trillion to the debt for corporate tax cuts, but won’t commit to more than $1 billion for the opioid “emergency.”
    By Eric Levitz
  17. GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So ComplicatedYou’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Why Trump Supporters Might Not Care That He’s Not Getting Anything DoneIt’s widely assumed conservatives will punish the GOP in 2018 for a poor record in Congress. Don’t count on it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. 7 Big Questions About What Congress Will Do in SeptemberThe big storm in Texas and Louisiana has improved the visibility in Washington — but there’s still a lot to do and little time to do it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Trump’s Tax Speech Empty of Tax Specifics, Budget ContextIt’s bad enough that the president’s “tax speech” had not a single specific proposal. He also didn’t mention how it would fit into the federal budget.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump’s Shutdown ThreatThe speaker says it isn’t in anyone’s interest to shut down the government, even if Democrats refuse to vote for border wall funding.
    By Eric Levitz
  22. The Trump-McConnell Feud Becoming a ‘Cold War’At the worst possible time, relations between the president and the leader of his party in the Senate have become frosty, distant, and even combative.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. GOP Struggles to Secure a ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit IncreaseIn theory everybody in Congress favors a straightforward debt-limit increase. But side deals and other complications loom large.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. The GOP Health-Care Bill Was a Mess. The GOP’s Tax and Budget Plans Are Messier.The GOP’s plans to use the budget process for health-care and tax legislation are already half-ruined. The worst could be yet to come.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. McConnell Scrubs Half the Senate’s August Recess As GOP Scrambles to Save AgendaWill the extra time enable Republicans to come up with a health-care bill 50 senators support? Or deals on taxes and the budget?
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. GOP Senator Explains Party’s Disarray: Nobody Expected Trump to WinPat Toomey spills a secret: Republicans didn’t have a policy plan because they didn’t think they’d have the power to enact it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. CBO: Medicaid Cuts Will Snowball Down the Road Under Senate Health-Care BillThe design of the Senate health-care bill is to slowly introduce Medicaid cuts that will grow much larger as time goes by.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. the national interest
    Trump Budget Director: We Didn’t Make a Childish Math Error! (They Did.)Mick Mulvaney: I can explain that mysterious $2 trillion mistake!
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Here’s How to Tell That Trump’s Budget Doesn’t Care at All About Poor PeopleForget what Trump does to programs liberals think help poor people. Look at what he does to programs Trump thinks help poor people.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. Trump Budget Based on $2 Trillion Math Error [Updated]Literally the largest and stupidest arithmetic mistake in the history of the federal budget.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. Forget About the House Trumpcare Debate — the Senate’s a Whole Different WorldWhile House passage of Trumpcare was essential for GOP plans, Senate concerns and procedures will make the next stage of the debate very different.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. the national interest
    Trump Budget Director Admits Their Goal Is High Inequality, Not Low DeficitsMick Mulvaney says the quiet part loud.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. 9 Big Questions About GOP Tax ReformIt’s as complicated as health-care policy, and almost as politically perilous.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. Trump Signs Bill Directing NASA to Send Humans to Mars (Eventually)The White House finally has a policy response to climate change.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. 4 Reasons Why the Trump Budget Cuts Won’t HappenMeals on Wheels, Big Bird, and AmeriCorps are likely to survive.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. Trump Budget a Blast From the Conservative PastTrump’s budget outline is a very conventionally conservative document wrapped in bristling “America First” packaging, but not a very serious proposal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. early and often
    Trump’s Budget Funds Military and Border Wall, Eliminates Dozens of ProgramsBut Republican lawmakers have already called the drastic blueprint “dead on arrival.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. Health-Care Mess Could Screw Up Everything GOP Is Trying to Do This YearIf Republicans are unable to resolve their problem over repealing and replacing Obamacare, their timetable for the rest of the year is in big trouble.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Trump Budget Expected to Seek Massive Cuts in Federal WorkforceOne expert says employment will drop 1.8 percent in D.C. if the president gets his way.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  40. Trump Aims to Pass $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Right After Tax CutsOnce he’s done with Obamacare and tax reform, Trump hopes to fund highway renovation, high-speed rail, and, possibly, Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. Republicans Were Hoping for More Information From Trump. He Gave Them None.The president’s address to Congress was upbeat, mainly because he did not address any of the tough choices his party faces.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. President Trump’s Gold-Plated Budget PlanThe billionaire president’s fiscal agenda grows more lavish by the day.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. Trump Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Package Likely to Be Delayed Until MañanaNice as Trump’s infrastructure talk has been, there’s no plan, no money, and no momentum for it at present. So looks like it’s on the back burner.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. Trump to Tackle Deficit With Imaginary Growth, Elimination of Popular ProgramsThe president is poised to pay for his tax cuts by baselessly assuming 3 percent economic growth and eliminating public broadcasting.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. Mick Mulvaney’s Job Will Be a NightmareWith no time to spare and no margin for error, the new OMB director must somehow give Congress guidance after resolving his differences with Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. Conservatives Revolt Against Keeping the Parts of Obamacare Americans LikeThe is GOP increasingly caught between “base” demands to destroy Obamacare and popular pressure to preserve key provisions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. Red-State Democrats Not Rushing to Help Republicans Just YetThe GOP assumed that Dems from pro-Trump states might be of help in the Senate. It’s not looking that way.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. Trump Leaves Republicans in the Dark About His — and Their –- PlansRepublicans meeting in Philadelphia were confused about their agenda and in dire need of presidential guidance. Instead they got a campaign speech.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. Report: Trump Team Preparing $10.5 Trillion in Budget CutsFunding for renewable energy, preventing domestic violence, the arts and humanities, and civil-rights enforcement would all be slashed or eliminated.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. GOP Took Another Small Step on Repealing Obamacare. It Gets Harder From Here.Now begin the really challenging questions.
    By Ed Kilgore
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