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Navy Chief: Losing Shipbuilding Funds Is ‘Not Helpful’

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Thursday that the Trump administration’s diversion of funds from the Navy’s shipbuilding budget to border wall construction was “not helpful” to the current...
Big Hurdle for Sanders’ Plan to Cancel Student Debt

Bernie Sanders wants to eliminate $1.6 trillion in student debt, to be paid for by a tax on financial transactions , but doing so won’t be easy, says Josh Mitchell of The Wall Street Journal. The...
Pelosi: Congress Close to a Bipartisan Deal on Coronavirus Funding

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that lawmakers are nearing agreement on emergency funding for the government’s coronavirus response. "We're coming close to a bipartisan agreement...

Trump: We’ll Spend ‘Whatever Is Appropriate’ to Fight Coronavirus

President Trump on Wednesday evening defended his administration’s preparedness for the new coronavirus, saying that the risk to the American public remains low and that Vice President Mike Pence...
Fact Checking Sanders’ Latest Claims About Medicare for All

Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All proposal once again came under attack in Tuesday’s Democratic debate. In defense of his plan, the senator from Vermont cited a recent analysis in the British journal...
Trump Wants $2.5 Billion to Fight the Coronavirus. Is It Enough?

“This could be bad.” With those words, public health officials on Tuesday urged Americans to prepare for the coronavirus to spread across U.S. communities and bring with it potentially significant...
Will Bernie Sanders Bend on Medicare for All?

Would Sen. Bernie Sanders moderate his message on Medicare for All if he secures the Democratic nomination for president? At The Atlantic , Elaine Godfrey reports that some of Sanders’ supporters and...
Sanders Releases Funding Options for His Big Plans

Facing questions about how he intends to pay for an ambitious policy agenda that includes single-payer health care, student debt cancellation and an expansion of Social Security, Vermont Sen. Bernie...