Outside the Beltway

Voters rank factors before choosing how to vote.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

House Republicans passed their tax reform bill. That was the easy part.

For some reason, Senate Republicans want to attach a bad health care reform idea onto an already controversial tax reform bill.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

It’s been two years since John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, and he’s got a few things to say about his former colleagues and the state of American politics.

Republicans finally unveiled the outlines of a tax reform package yesterday, but the devil is in the still to be determined details.

Republicans will introduce a tax package by the end of the month, but whether they can actually pass anything is another question entirely.

Winning was easy.  Legislating is hard.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

Republicans are going to find it difficult to distance themselves from Donald Trump.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

Reports indicate that President Trump will seek to increase military spending. We don’t need to, and we can’t really afford it.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for only the second time in a decade, but it still seems like it’s chasing an inflation monster that doesn’t exist.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio have won the endorsement of the Des Moines Register, but it’s unclear how much this will help their respective campaigns.

Republicans haven’t really moved beyond the legacy of George W. Bush’s failed Administration as much as they’d like to think, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them very much.

Compromise is simply necessary for the country to function.

John Boehner let loose on the “false prophets” on the right yesterday, and he’s absolutely right.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

What if this is the new normal?

Bernie Sanders is running for President. He’s not going to win, but he’s not running because he thinks he can win.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

What happened Tuesday? And what does it tell us about 2016?

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

The next Attorney General will likely see their nomination taken up by Senators who will not be in office past December. That’s somewhat disturbing, but it’s become all too common in Washington.