Republicans are rebuffing President Biden’s proposed changes to his infrastructure and jobs plan after the president lowered the spending proposal from $2.25 trillion to $1.7 trillion. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the administration’s counteroffer “the art of seeking common ground,” but a spokesperson for the Republican senator leading …
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The Trump administration blew $349 billion in small-business pandemic aid in four weeks, less time than it took for me to grow out my quarantine beard. That is nothing to be proud of, but President Trump still took his victory lap on Tuesday, boasting about breaking speed records for loans …
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It’s easy to call acts of horror “evil.” It’s comforting to ascribe an external, unknowable motive to events so terrible we can’t imagine a motivation. The human mind is incapable of imagining what would drive a man to haul an arsenal of high-powered weapons into a hotel room, knock out …
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When a gunman who had coolly calculated his strategy for maximum damage opened fire on a crowded concert in Las Vegas earlier this month, he killed 58 people, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Numerous media outlets have painstakingly assembled the stories of those who died …
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On Monday night, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the 2018 defense policy bill, a package worth nearly $700 billion.The bill sailed through the chamber with broad bipartisan support, as Republican senators were simultaneously weighing a last-ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act before the window to do so with a …
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President Trump is at a crossroads with regard to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the Obama-era initiative the president just rescinded that protected nearly 800,000 undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. when they were young. And instead of picking one path to go down, he …
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