By NPR On Tuesday, President Obama will give his farewell address to the nation. It’s a custom that goes all the way back to George Washington; these speeches, author John Avlon says, “serve as a bookend to a presidency.” For…
By Peter Schroeder, THE HILL Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is urging Congress to effectively kill the national debt limit, arguing it now poses too great a risk to remain a policy tool. Read more…
By Mark Holden, THE HILL Criminal justice reform has been one of the few policy areas where Republicans and Democrats have forged bipartisan consensus. They have come close to passing reform the past two years, and now it’s up to…
By Craig Volden and Alan Wiseman, THE WASHINGTON POST Many key questions will confront the new Congress when it begins its session this week. Will Republicans hold together to advance the agenda items they share with the incoming president, Donald…
Americans emerged from President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory in last week’s election with passionate and polarized reactions, overall expressing tempered optimism about his presidency but unconvinced that he has a mandate to enact a sweeping new policy agenda, according to a Washington Post-Schar School national poll.
House and Senate GOP leaders plan to move lame duck legislation that funds the government at current levels into early next year, part of a strategy to split up any showdowns over a government shutdown and a debt ceiling hike.
We are unlikely to see a united government – that is, a single party dominating the legislative and executive branches – during all of the next president’s first term. According to various election forecasting models, it seems likely that the Democrats will take control of both the White House and the U.S. Senate in November. However, it is probable that the GOP will maintain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, even if they lose a few seats.
No matter who wins the White House on Nov. 8, a majority of the country will dislike the next president. Polling this week from Gallup shows that 56% of Americans view Hillary Clinton unfavorably, and 68% view Donald Trump unfavorably. These are record numbers for presidential candidates.
Thirty years ago tomorrow our government achieved what many now consider a monumental undertaking. A divided government came together and passed meaningful tax reform to boost the economy and make the tax system fairer. President Reagan signed it into law on October 22, 1986.
The U.S. budget deficit as a share of the economy widened for the first time in seven years, marking a turning point in the nation’s fiscal outlook as an aging population boosts government spending and debt.
It feels good, doesn’t it, Democrats? Donald Trump is imploding. Republicans are in an open, bloody revolt. And the polls look so good for Hillary Clinton, you’re starting to believe that this might really happen.
WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system? How has a country that has benefited—perhaps more than any other—from immigration, trade and technological innovation suddenly developed a strain of anti-immigrant, anti-innovation protectionism? Why have some on the far left and even more on the far right embraced a crude populism that promises a return to a past that is not possible to restore—and that, for most Americans, never existed at all?