New urgency on foreign aid might make getting through the budget and Ukraine funding easier. More likely, it will make it harder.
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A Hemmed-In Presidency
In ‘The Last Politician,’ Franklin Foer unfolds Joe Biden’s record of achievement and command. But voters haven’t gotten to see it.
Posted inPolitics
Congress’s Post-Vacation Blahs
A passel of program authorizations and funding expire in September. There isn’t really a path yet to deal with them all.
Posted inTAP
The Case for Radical Public Options
Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.
Posted inPolitics
Congressional Spending Battle Is an Intra-Republican Affair
It’s become a proxy for Republican battles about both national security and Kevin McCarthy’s job security.
Posted inPodcasts
Putin’s War Goes Sideways
Ukraine is starting the summer campaign, and his pet mercenary warlord marched on Moscow.
Posted inTAP
On Russia, Where the Past Is Never Past
Today on TAP: The Wagner Group mutiny re-enacted aborted coups of yore.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans in Disarray
The temper tantrum on House floor votes masks a much more consequential lack of consensus on upcoming spending bills—which could give Democrats an opportunity.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Spending Cap in Name Only
In our final X-Date, we note how Congress is already scheming to avoid restrictions on military spending.
Posted inPodcasts
Ukrainian Solidarity
Bill Fletcher argues that the American left should support efforts to fend off Russian aggression.
