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With shutdown threat, House GOP raises odds of recession

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Sorry, that $1.50 pizza slice is never going to be $1 again

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The UAW might be demanding too big a slice of a soon-to-shrink pie

United Auto Workers members on a picket line outside the Stellantis factory in Toledo on Monday. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg) Listen 5 min...

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The House GOP’s plan is to blow up all the plans

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters about averting a government shutdown following a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans at the...

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We let child poverty soar last year. We could choose differently.

First lady Jill Biden and President Biden greet students on their first day of school at Eliot-Hine Middle School in D.C. on Aug. 28. (Leah...

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‘Bidenomics’ is fixated on manufacturing. That’s a political mistake.

President Biden delivers remarks in 2022 on his administration’s work to rebuild manufacturing. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) ...

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Republicans and Democrats have found a common enemy: Free trade

A worker at the Qcells solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Ga. (Dustin Chambers/for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...

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Think child care is hard to find now? Wait a couple of months.

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Where do socioeconomic classes mix? Not church, but Chili’s.

Affordable chain restaurants such as Olive Garden are one of the places where American socioeconomic classes mix most, according to new research....

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A lesson from China’s disappearing data: Nobody hides good news

University graduates attend a job fair in Wuhan, China, on Aug. 10. (Str/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share ...

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What champions of more IRS funding — me included — got wrong

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DeSantis’s Florida shows the disaster of more competent Trumpism

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president, delivers remarks at a campaign event in Iowa City on Thursday. (Geoff Stellfox/AP) ...

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Two years later, Congress is failing the Afghan allies we evacuated

Mahnaz Akbari, who led a unit of Afghan women as part of joint U.S.-Afghan military operations, is pictured in McLean, Va., on July 26. (Lexey Swall...

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Health care returns to its pre-covid state: Cruel and incompetent

Amanda Quick sits under a tree with her daughter, Avery Quick, in Rose Bud, Ark. (Houston Cofield for The Washington Post) Opinion Health...

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A year after Dobbs, House GOP proposes taking food from hungry babies

A one-year-old is fed baby food in Palo Alto, Calif. The House GOP is proposing major cuts to WIC, which helps feed babies, small children, pregnant...

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DeSantis lights taxpayer money on fire, then complains about arson

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) speaks at the Moms for Liberty Summit in Philadelphia on June 30. (Hannah Beier for The Washington Post.) ...

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Yet more tariffs may be coming, on products purchased by the poor

Tariffs that increase the price of canned goods would disproportionately affect poorer Americans. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post) ...

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Who needs to prepare for real wars? Culture wars are way more fun.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol on July 14. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Listen 4 min ...

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Who gets credit for cooling inflation? Biden, if not Bidenomics.

Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.,...

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Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare

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How America can exploit China’s brain drain

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Renewables are saving Texas. Again. So give them their due.

Wind turbines are seen near San Benito, Tex., in November 2020. (Brenda Bazán for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Comment on...

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Biden’s student debt jubilee likely hurt those it intended to help

President Biden speaks about his plans for continued student debt relief after the Supreme Court blocked his plan on Friday. (Leah Millis/Reuters) ...

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In a Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage match, the only thing clear is who would lose

SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, seen in Paris in June, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in Washington, D.C., in October, recently agreed...

27.06.2023 3

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It’s almost like the House GOP never cared about deficits after all

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) delivers remarks on Capitol Hill on May 31. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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All’s fair in love, war and beer boycotts

Pride-themed Bud Light koozies. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share this article Share Comment on...

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Congress just cut IRS funding. It costs even more than we thought.

The head graphic shows that for each dollar spent on auditing, the IRS makes more than $3 for auditing the top 1 percent of the income distribution. ...

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The government needs to measure things. Somehow, that’s controversial.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires obscures the view of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday. (Susan Walsh/AP) Listen 4 min Comment...

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One reason for the surprise jobs boom? Immigrants are back.

A "now hiring" sign is displayed outside a resale clothing shop in Los Angeles on Friday. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Listen 4 min ...

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Government incompetence is knocking eligible Americans off Medicaid

The Intensive Care unit at St. Vincent Medical Center building in Los Angeles in 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Listen 4 min ...

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With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on May 25 at the U.S. Capitol. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Comment...

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Stop debating what kids should read and make sure they know how to read

Books on a free library shelf inside the classroom of Richard Evans, a teacher at Hyde Park Elementary School in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Oct. 20,...

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After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Capitol Hill on May 11 in D.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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Not worried enough? A U.S. default threatens national security, too.

President Biden arrives to speak at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N.Y., on Wednesday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) ...

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How Fox News and Trump wrote the playbook for their own downfall

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What the heck is going on in the U.S. economy?

As I’ve said before, the current U.S. economy is extremely confusing. Anyone who says they know for sure what’s going on is lying either to you or...

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‘Financial Armageddon’: What would U.S. default actually look like?

Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks with reporters in the Capitol last month. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Comment on...

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Earth to politicians: The U.S. has too few immigrants — not too many

A woman and child are among migrants gathered inside the fence of a makeshift detention center in El Paso on March 27. (Sergio Flores for The...

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How the GOP’s Medicaid work requirements will backfire

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Meet the new debt limit plan, just like the old debt limit plan

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) chat as they walk on Capitol Hill on March 17. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

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The GOP takes another misguided stab at defunding the tax police

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There’s a credit crunch all across the country. Here’s why.

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Sorry, my fellow Americans, but your taxes are probably too low

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No, Ron DeSantis, the Federal Reserve is not coming for your guns

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at an event in Michigan on Thursday. (Kaytie Boomer/AP) Listen 5 min Comment on this story ...

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Budget? Debt ceiling? GOP fiscal plans are nowhere to be found.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the National Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill on March 10. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

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The Great Medicaid Purge begins

A hospital bed is seen in a covid-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles in November 2020. (Jae C. Hong/AP) ...

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Why Americans are so pessimistic about their finances

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Are all bank deposits insured? The feds must get their story straight.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 16. (Mary F....

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Amid the gloom of covid, a baby boom began

A newborn baby boy yawns in his mother's arms at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., on July 28. (Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images) ...

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Threatening a U.S. default was bad before. Now, it’s colossally idiotic.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen takes questions from the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) ...

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