Today on TAP: The Republican budget reconciliation process has inched forward, but deep schisms remain. The course of least resistance is a massive increase in the deficit.
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Devout Speaker Johnson and the Worship of Trump
Today on TAP: Trump’s acceptance of a really cool $400 million 747 bribe raises no ethical issues for Old-Time Religion Johnson.
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Grim Times for Washingtonians
The fiscal distress Republicans are inflicting on residents of the nation’s capital is unprecedented, and it will hit human services the hardest.
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Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts
House Republicans plan to cut a staggering $300 billion from SNAP, far more than they’d originally planned.
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House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies
President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.
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So Much for Consumer Product Safety
Today on TAP: Last week, Trump fired the three Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and is sacking much of the staff.
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The Big Beautiful Bill Is Hanging by a Thread
There is so much unfinished business that some Republicans in Washington are saying the unsayable: Just drop it.
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A Working-Class Pope
By his deeds, and by choosing the name of the last Pope Leo, the new pope’s Catholicism appears Christian—and even social—democratic.
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Crypto Bill Fails for Now, but Democratic Deal Remains Intact
Democrats didn’t want to be embarrassed into voting for something without seeing the bill text. When that gets ironed out, they are likely to say yes.
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Unchecked Balances
No one is above the law, not even Pam Bondi. Freshman swing-seat Democrat Dave Min is trying to hold Republicans accountable.
