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GOP looks to cap employer tax break in Obamacare replacement

Republicans facing tough questions about how to pay for their Obamacare replacement are looking hard at a controversial but revenue-raising idea: capping the tax break for employer-sponsored coverage...  Read more

GOP defense hawks barely squawked on Mulvaney nomination

President Trump's choice for budget director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., headlined a half a dozen nominees. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., filed to end debate on Monday night...  Read more

No, There Is No Tradition of Filibustering Supreme Court Nominees

Contrary to recent mythology, there has never been a Senate tradition of filibustering nominees to the Supreme Court. Only once in history has there been a clear attempt to filibuster a first-time nominee to the Supreme Court, as in the case of the 2006 Samuel Alito confirmation...  Read more

Flynn Resigns After Push from Pence and Reince Over Russian Ambassador Talks

It took only three weeks for the Trump administration to experience its first scandal and senior-level resignation...  Read more

Could Trump save the media?

It was easy to imagine journalists tugging at their hair as they read the notorious comment of senior White House adviser Steve Bannon last month, calling the media "the opposition party" and saying...  Read more

Andy Puzder's Confirmation Could Be in Peril

The political world is abuzz about the possibility Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, is on the outs with Donald Trump. That’s due to a not-so-deep reading of some comments by Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax Media and a donor and friend to Trump, on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday...  Read more

The Left is collapsing everywhere

Here's a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in the past 40 years. Seven of them failed to win a single general election ...  Read more

Xi Jinping's Version of Democracy

Is there really a Beijing Model of governance: authoritarian politics steering economic growth, diluting the appeal of the West's democracy and freedom? The ruler of China thinks so. He's focused on sticking around and seeing it triumph...  Read more

How Trump's deregulation agenda is shaping energy policy

President Trump is making a long-term mistake by issuing executive orders to roll back and stop regulatory overreach instead of relying on Congress, business groups say...  Read more

Rep. Mark Sanford pushes for REAL ID reform as privacy issues loom

Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., has been an opponent of REAL ID since his tenure as South Carolina's governor...  Read more

Is Trump an isolationist or interventionist?

When President Trump addressed U.S. troops at MacDill Air Force Base last week in Florida, he sounded about as hawkish as you can get, anxious to unleash the full fury of America's military to end the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism...  Read more

Democrats set optimistic goals after 2016 'autopsy'

House Democrats set an optimistic goal this week of storming back and retaking the House next year, through a combination of new messaging and targeting districts in the country where Democrats hope they have become more competitive...  Read more

Kushner Leading Government IT Task Force in White House 'Think Tank'

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has spoken and…it will not lift the temporary restraining order on President Trump's travel restriction executive order...  Read more

Kellyanne Conway's lengthening gaffe track

White House officials have been forced to spend time and energy defending one of their own over the past three weeks as Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, committed a string of headline-grabbing gaffes that have created distractions for the fledgling administration...  Read more

Senate confirms Price as HHS secretary

The Senate early Friday morning narrowly confirmed Rep. Tom Price to serve as the next secretary of Health and Human Services...  Read more

Court's rejection of immigration ban raises stakes for Gorsuch

The 9th Circuit decision to reject President Trump's ban on immigration and travel from seven majority-Muslim countries has ratcheted up the pressure on the Senate and its consideration of Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court...  Read more

The Patriots Just Made Parenting Harder

I don't know about you, but I'm still recovering from Sunday night...  Read more

White House Agenda Stalls as Cabinet Confirmations Trickle Through

At 10:30 Thursday morning, Jeff Sessions will officially be sworn in as attorney general of the United States...  Read more