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January 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk’s Efficiency Agency Turns Out to Be Just Another Scam
Donald Trump finally created DOGE.
January 17, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Republicans Want to Punish Divorced People to Fund Tax Cuts
House Republicans are trying to find ways to save money.
January 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Most Terrifying Answer in Trump’s Budget Chief Hearing
Donald Trump nominated Russell Vought to run the Office of Management and Budget.
August 23, 2023
Grace Segers
The GOP War on Wokeness Could Shut Down the Government
Partisan procedural brinkmanship is back, thanks to the House Freedom Caucus’s crusade against military policy.
February 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
No One’s Buying the Republicans’ Deficit Fearmongering Anymore
It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

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