Outside the Beltway

The President’s latest job approval numbers show little sign of movement in the wake of the release of the Mueller report

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

Strategic move or pointless provocation?

The law is not on the President’s side.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

After twenty-five days, there’s no end in sight to the Federal Government shutdown. You can thank the President for that.

President Trump stormed out of a meeting with Congressional leaders as the shutdown drags on with no end in sight.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

With the economy appearing to sour, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is quickly becoming the President’s latest target of criticism.

Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.

Donald Trump is talking about a tax cut that appears to exist only in his own mind.

Bernie Sanders could find repeating the success of 2016 in 2020 may not be so easy.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The National Debt has passed $21,000,000,000,000 for the first time in history just as the nation begins its return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

Whoops.

The Treasury Department has designated five entities and 19 individuals tied to the Russian government for cyber espionage.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

In addition to deadlines on the Federal Budget and DACA, Congress also has to deal with the debt ceiling at some point in the next month.

Attempts to pre-pay property taxes lead to confusion and frustration.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Perhaps it’s time to consider getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely.

Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin’s trip to Kentucky that ‘just happened’ to coincide with last month’s eclipse is being investigated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

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

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Woman who liberated slaves to replace slaveholding President who presided over Native American genocide on American currency.

The success of the Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’ appears to be helping to save Alexander Hamilton’s place on the $10 bill. Andrew Jackson, meanwhile, looks likely to be booted from the $20 bill.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.

The House Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal will consider impeaching the I.R.S. Commissioner over issues that are, at beast, only tangentially related to the scandal itself.

Congress and the White House have reached a tentative deal on the budget and debt ceiling that promises to make Paul Ryan’s initial months as Speaker a lot easier.