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Ideologues are ascendant in the Trump White House
President Trump could've gotten the border wall. Democrats were more than willing to cave on that in exchange for saving the dreamers. But instead, Trump moved the goal posts.
Trump still hasn’t nominated a director for the Violence Against Women office
This opening has become especially glaring against the backdrop of the White House’s botched response to revelations that former senior aide Rob Porter allegedly assaulted both of his ex-wives.
A pragmatic Bernie Sanders seeks out an immigration compromise to protect ‘dreamers’
Democrats are so eager to shield young foreign-born “dreamers” from deportation that they’re now offering to make concessions that might have been hard to imagine a year ago.
Trump budget highlights disconnect between populist rhetoric and plutocrat reality
Many of his proposals are dead on arrival in Congress, but the blueprint nonetheless speaks volumes about the president’s values – and contradicts many promises he made as a candidate.
A freewheeling immigration debate in the Senate will test the power of conservative outside groups
The open immigration debate that Mitch McConnell promised to end last month’s government shutdown will begin Monday night. It may be the most consequential story of the week, but even the wisest insiders are unsure about how it will play out.
Republicans are all Keynesians now, but not Rand Paul
Rand Paul’s short-lived shutdown is ending, but his warning about GOP deficit hypocrisy reverberates
Improving poll numbers give Republicans hope that the midterms might not be so bad
If it looked like a tsunami was headed for Republicans at the end of the year, now it's looking more like a normal wave. And some congressmen who looked like they'd get wiped out not long ago now may be able to surf it.
Stopgap spending bills epitomize congressional dysfunction and hurt the military
Jim Mattis tees off on continuing resolutions, just as Ash Carter did before him, while Trump says he’s open to a shutdown.
Trump's accusation of "treason" against Democrats debases discourse
A president loosely accusing the opposition party of “treason” represents a far greater danger to the long-term health of the American system than a 4.6 percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
More memos are coming. Will they matter?
The memo published Friday may have been the most overhyped dud since Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's empty vault in 1986.