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Mark Lennihan / AP A Single Solution for New York's Two Biggest Problems
The city is grappling with decaying infrastructure, and struggling to provide affordable housing.
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Thomas Peter / AP A Trade War With China May Be Inevitable
The interests of the U.S. and China are set to collide, for the simple reason that the Chinese recognize that they find themselves in a profoundly unfavorable position.
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AP Hillary Clinton's Trickle-Down America
While they may be thriving economically, coastal cities thrive on income inequality and a politically powerless underclass.
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Susan Walsh / AP Heidi Heitkamp Takes On Elizabeth Warren Over the Senate Banking Bill
The two Democrats are clashing over legislation that could ease regulatory requirements on banks adopted after the 2008 recession.
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Eric Gay / AP The Government Gets Into the Church-Rebuilding Business
A provision tucked into the budget bill requires FEMA to treat religious institutions like other nonprofits.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Closing of the Republican Mind
The tax debate offers a clear measure of how deeply insular the GOP has become. It’s now governing solely of, by, and for Red America.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Rebirth of America's Pro-Natalist Movement
Activists on the right and left want policies that will reverse the country’s baby bust. But the broader culture—and Congress—don’t seem to care.
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Evan Vucci / AP How Trump Is Endangering His Prized Tax Cuts
One by one, and to the annoyance of GOP lawmakers, the president is rejecting proposals Republicans may need to adopt to pay for their costly plan.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP 'You Better Learn Our Lesson'
Kansas Republicans say they are worried that Congress and the Trump administration will repeat the mistake they made in enacting budget-busting tax cuts.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters How America's Vision of Progressive Tax Reform Died
Only by reclaiming an earlier ideal will Congress be able to counteract the influence of corporations and the affluent.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Beginning of the End of the Debt Ceiling
With another deal with Democrats, President Trump could release the hostage that congressional Republicans took during their early fiscal battles with the Obama administration.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump's Fill-in-the-Blanks Tax Reform Plan
The president is leaving the details to Republicans in Congress. Only they haven’t figured them out yet, either.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Tax Break Dividing the Republican Party
A big proposed deduction is pitting some larger corporations against the GOP’s small-business base.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Paul Ryan Fights the Bush Legacy on Taxes
The House speaker is pushing President Trump to embrace permanent reform rather than a quick jolt like the temporary cuts that George W. Bush signed in 2001.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP A Tax Plan That Befits the 'King of Debt'
The cuts-only plan President Trump is expected to unveil Wednesday follows a pattern: The risk associated with higher deficits takes a back seat when it comes with political pain.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The First Broken Promise of Hillary Clinton's Presidency
Why her vow not to “add a penny to the debt” is an impossible pledge to keep
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Partnership for Public Service / Flickr The Oscars, but for Federal Employees
The FBI’s chief bomb expert, a Secret Service cyber-investigator, and the developer of a life-saving medical computer are among the honorees of annual awards for government service known as the Sammies.
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Chuck Burton / AP Donald Trump Brings Back the Talk of Default
If the economy crashes, “I’m going to give you back half,” the presumptive Republican nominee tells the nation’s creditors.
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Mark Wilson / Getty The Show Trial of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
The congressional resolution condemning the longtime public servant breaks with both precedent and decency.
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Yuri Gripas / AP The House Freedom Caucus Is Trying to Be Reasonable
The cadre of conservative budget hawks on the Hill feels damned if it does play spoiler in budget negotiations, and damned if it doesn’t.
