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Disaster Money May Give Congress a Way Out of Its Fiscal Crisis With disaster funding for Texas becoming the ultimate must-pass legislation, Congress could use it as a way out of September’s fiscal crisis.
By Ed Kilgore
If Trump Keeps Threatening Government Shutdown, Democrats Will Have Some Options Now that the president has put a government shutdown squarely on the table, Democrats must decide if they want a deal, or just a Trump defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
Bannon on the Outside Could Be Even More Dangerous While Bannon’s rivals in the administration will be happy to see him go, he could cause the White House immense problems as a free agent.
By Ed Kilgore
White House Wonders If It’s Safe to Fire Steve Bannon Many of Trump’s closest allies want the Breitbart mastermind gone, while others reportedly worry about the “mischief” he could make in exile.
By Eric Levitz
House Conservatives Will Try to Force Another Vote on Obamacare Repeal In an entirely symbolic — and divisive — gesture, the House Freedom Caucus is apparently hell-bent on one more vote to simply repeal Obamacare.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Paul Ryan Raise the Debt Limit Without Losing His Job? House conservatives are (essentially) asking Paul Ryan to either drive America into default, or surrender his Speaker’s gavel.
By Eric Levitz
Why Nuking the Filibuster Could Be Part of a Debt-Limit Deal With conservatives now threatening to take must-pass legislation hostage, they could get together with Trump and permanently end Democratic leverage.
By Ed Kilgore
House Budget Proposes Cuts to Medicare, Taxes on the Rich The House GOP wants the president to break his promise not to cut Medicare, for the sake of funding regressive tax cuts.
By Eric Levitz
Cruz Amendment to Senate Health-Care Bill Now Dividing GOP Initially praised as brilliant, Cruz’s idea of letting insurers offer cheap, skimpy health plans is now looking like a deadly threat to sick people.
By Ed Kilgore
A Debt-Limit Crisis Could Arrive Sooner Rather Than Later Hard-line conservatives in Congress who are angry about deficits may find a way to take a debt-limit increase hostage.
By Ed Kilgore
How Fred Upton Resurrected Zombie Trumpcare It looked like the GOP congressman dealt a coup de grâce to the bill on Tuesday. By Wednesday he was back onboard and had changed the momentum.
By Ed Kilgore
House Conservatives May Revolt Against Spending Deal After the GOP got rolled in negotiations over a major spending bill, disappointment on the right may mean Democratic votes are necessary to pass it.
By Ed Kilgore
House Democrats Threaten Shutdown If GOP Votes on Zombie Trumpcare As the House nears an agreement on a one-week spending bill, Democrats warn that a new Trumpcare vote would be a deal-breaker.
By Eric Levitz
Moderate House GOP Leader Says No to Zombie Trumpcare Congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania is a key player in Trump’s renewed health-care push. He’s having none of the new plan.
By Ed Kilgore
Zombie Trumpcare Is Dead Again The White House hoped to engineer a come-from-behind win on health care this week. It failed.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Donated Thousands to the Campaigns of House Freedom Caucus Members “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do,” Trump once said. The House’s tea partiers may owe him a refund.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Vows to ‘Fight’ the House’s Tea Party Hard-liners in 2018 Trump and Paul Ryan lay into the recalcitrant conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus, as a government-shutdown fight looms.
By Eric Levitz
The Dead Are Walking As Talk of Renewed GOP Health-Care Negotiations Fills D.C. We all thought Donald Trump and Paul Ryan had buried health care as a GOP agenda item for 2017. Now there are reports talks have improbably resumed.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Mar. 27, 2017
The Left, Not the Right, Saved Obamacare Blaming the House Freedom Caucus minimizes the true failure of Trumpcare.
By Jonathan Chait
GOP Hits a Dead End on Trumpcare, Cancels Vote After a “final offer” to House conservatives failed, Trump and Ryan may be back to square one with a divided GOP and no clear path forward.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Trumpcare Could Die Before It Even Gets a Vote Twenty-four House Republicans say they oppose the bill — and the moderate opposition hasn’t even shown up yet.
By Eric Levitz
Paul Ryan’s Hellish Future Whether he loses his gavel or just his power to control his troops in the House, he will probably be tempted to pack it in.
By Ed Kilgore