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The GOP’s 2019 Agenda Is for Donors’ Eyes Only Republicans aren’t campaigning on what they’ll do if they keep Congress because they don’t want you to know.
The GOP Gutted the IRS — and the Rich Made Out Like Bandits By denying the IRS the funding necessary to police tax fraud, Republicans have helped American businesses evade $125 billion in taxes each year.
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9/20/2018
Congressional Republicans Ignoring Trump Government Shutdown Threats Trump is again threatening to shut down the federal government over border wall funding. His congressional allies are strangely sure he’s bluffing.
Trump Has Not Transformed the Republican Party — Yet Anti-Trump Republicans are going extinct. But on policy matters, the congressional GOP has changed Trump far more than he has changed it.
Elderly White Voters Are Starting to Turn on the GOP In 2016, older, college-educated white voters favored a Republican Congress by ten points. Today, they support a Democratic one.
GOP to Push for More Tax Cuts — and a Balanced Budget Amendment Sources say Republicans will follow this act with legislation allowing all Americans to have their cake, and eat it as well.
The GOP Is Embracing Fiscal Irresponsibility. That’s (Probably) for the Best. Republicans are poised to pass a giant stimulus in an already-strong economy. That’s bad for the deficit — but good for workers.
Trump Has Lost the Upper Hand in the Immigration Fight The president took hostages that he’s unwilling to shoot. Now, the Dreamers’ allies have no reason to pay his ransom.
The GOP’s FBI Conspiracy Theory Just Got Even Dumber Looks like the FBI wasn’t corrupted by a “secret society” of Hillary Clinton supporters, after all.
First Post-Shutdown Poll: Trump, Democrats Share the Blame Impressions of the shutdown will change and fade, but for now it doesn’t look like the Democrats fared that badly.
Lawmakers Turned the Government Shutdown Into a Blame Game Featuring a highly partisan White House voice-mail message.
Republicans Poised for Collapse in New York The historic unpopularity of Trump and the GOP tax bill have left the party without a single statewide candidate at the start of 2018.
House Passes Spending Bill, Punts Policy Fights to Next Year The continuing resolution keeps the government running until mid-January, while leaving DACA, Obamacare, and Defense spending unaddressed.
Congress Will Not Renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program This Year Republicans will jeopardize 9 million American kids’ access to medical care because they’re worried about adding $13 billion to the deficit.
No, the Media Has Not Been Unfair to the GOP Tax Bill Nobody forced Republicans to write a tax bill that gives a giant, permanent cut to corporations — and a small, temporary one to the middle class.
Rubio Threatens to Sink Tax Bill If Child Tax Credit Isn’t Expanded Meanwhile, other Republicans are worried that their bill gives too much to the middle class, and too little to millionaires.
After Tax Cut for the Rich, Trump Hopes to Take Food From Poor Kids The president plans to cut off food aid to low-income children whose parents are unemployed, or test positive for marijuana.
After Tax Cuts, Republicans Eye Civil War House conservatives just fired the opening salvo in a looming intraparty fight over spending, immigration, and perhaps, the special counsel.
Republicans Have Written the Least Popular Tax Bill in Modern History It’s the first unpopular tax cut in at least four decades — and is even more hated than the bill that raised taxes under Clinton.
The GOP Has Officially Engineered a Children’s Health-Care Crisis States are now sending out letters informing low-income families that the Children’s Health Insurance Program might not exist next year.
The GOP’s Fixation on Giant Corporate Tax Cuts Is Political Insanity Republicans are soaking the middle class — and jeopardizing their House majority — all for the sake of business tax cuts their voters don’t want.
Trump Promises His Tax Plan Won’t Limit 401(k) Contributions The president shoots down congressional Republicans’ latest scheme for offsetting the cost of corporate tax cuts.
Why Trump’s Tax Plan Will (Probably) Be Impossible to Pass The plan’s upper middle-class tax increases are too high for many GOP lawmakers to tolerate – but still too low to satisfy the party’s deficit hawks.
Trump’s Tax Plan: Prioritize Cuts for the Rich, Say He Isn’t Republicans have their final framework for tax reform — and it still includes tax breaks that only multimillionaires can use.
The GOP Wants to Crack Down on Tax Evasion — Among the Working Poor Republicans have a plan to grow the deficit, hurt the poor, and make it easier for billionaires to evade taxes — all at the same time!
The GOP Must Make Obamacare Sabotage-Proof by Month’s End Or else health-insurance premiums will (almost certainly) rise by double digits.
Breitbart News Will Try to Force Trump to Be Trump, Whether He Likes It or Not You can expect Breitbart News to intensify its efforts to get Trump to stay “populist”, even if it mean repudiating key family members and advisers.
The Case for Nonviolence in a Violent Society Protecting the vulnerable requires recognizing the violence inherent in our system — and defending the restrictions on violence inherent in it, too.
Could Trump Get Away With Firing the Special Prosecutor? Right-wing media is encouraging Trump to pull the trigger. And the only people who could punish him for doing so are congressional Republicans.
The White House Is Reportedly Considering a Carbon Tax Some in the Trump administration are leaking word of the proposal, even as the White House officially denies it is considering any such thing.
The GOP Just Voted Against States’ Rights to Shield Wall Street From Competition Republicans just a passed a bill that expands federal regulation, discourages saving, and restricts competition, for Wall Street’s sake.
The Chamber of Commerce May Learn to Love Trump If the new administration and the Chamber’s allies in Congress give big business the tax and regulatory “relief” it wants, it’ll be fine with Trump.
