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Lindsey Graham Stunner On NBC: He Likes Some Of Obama’s Budget Proposals

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham surprised many this morning on Meet The Press when he said he liked some of the provisions in President Obama’s expected budget. President Obama is expected to...

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The Song Remains The Same: Obama’s Budget Fails With The Usual ‘Tax and Spend’

On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his budget proposal. The budget-that-never-balances includes $1 trillion in brand new taxes, nearly as much in spending, and adds over $8 trillion to the debt...

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Business As Usual? Fox & Friends Finds ‘Glimmer Of Hope’ For GOP In Obama’s...

President Obama released his budget plan yesterday — overall receiving a lukewarm, if not plain angry, reception from both sides of the aisle. While he has championed it has a compromise, his base...

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Grover Norquist And Bernie Sanders In Fiery Battle Over Exactly Why Obama’s...

What CNN billed as a segment featuring two political opposites, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, agreeing about their opposition to President...

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Obama to Congress: Time to Ignore ‘Activists,’‘Bloggers,’ and ‘Talking Heads...

On Thursday morning, with the government reopened and the debt ceiling crisis behind the country, President Barack Obama held a news conference where he insisted that members of Congress move on from...

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Mediaite Morning Reading List: Budget Deal, Unemployment, the Minimum Wage...

Every a.m., Mediaite publishes a primer of what the interweb machine is writing, talking, tweeting, and blogging about, so that you may fool friends and family into thinking you are a trove of...

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‘Ridiculous!’: Boehner Goes Off on Conservative Groups for ‘Using Americans...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) lit into outside conservative groups like Heritage Action and FreedomWorks on Wednesday morning for opposing the just-negotiated budget deal before they even knew the...

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Conservative Groups Respond to Boehner: Still Waiting for Savings from ‘Two...

House Speaker John Boehner went after conservative lobbying groups in no uncertain terms Wednesday morning, declaring that the groups reflexively opposing the just-negotiated budget deal were “using...

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Stewart Praises Budget Deal: Hallelujah! A Break From All the ‘Congressional...

It’s been so long since Congress actually compromised on something, Jon Stewart seemed almost giddy Wednesday night that there’s a budget deal that could very well pass. Stewart even played...

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Mediaite Morning Reading List: Did the Shutdown Create the Budget Deal?

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Mark Levin Trashes GOP on Fox over Budget Deal, Snipes at ‘Weak’ Boehner’s...

Today marks day two of John Boehner going all Howard Beale on conservative groups opposed to the budget deal, thus publicizing the ongoing feud in the GOP. Conservative radio host Mark Levin went off...

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Paul Ryan Responds to Sarah Palin Calling His Budget Plan a ‘Joke’

Sarah Palin called out Paul Ryan yesterday for his “joke” budget, calling it “the definition of insanity” and saying it doesn’t go far enough. Ryan was asked about Palin’s criticisms during a Fox &...

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Dem Rep. Against ‘CRomnibus’: We Can’t Be ‘Intimidated’ by White House

As of this posting, the House of Representatives has passed the “CRomnibus” needed to keep the government open after midnight. The Senate has yet to vote, but already the fight over the vote has...

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‘We Never Win and We Don’t Fight to Win’: Trump Attacks Military During Speech

Speaking to a group of governors today at the White House, President Donald Trump revealed that he was going to increase military spending while finding cuts elsewhere through getting rid of waste and...

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REPORT: Trump Proposes 37 Percent Cut to State Department Budget

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress tonight, the Associated Press is reporting that the Trump administration is proposing steep cuts for diplomacy and foreign...

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Key Trump Ally Breaks With President on Budget Cuts: ‘Meals on Wheels is a...

On a Thursday edition of CNN’s The Messy Truth, GOP Representative Chris Collins broke sharply with President Donald Trump over his proposed budget. Collins, of upstate New York, was the very first...

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‘I Don’t Know Yet’: OMB Director Mulvaney on Whether Budget Can Be Balanced...

In the wake of the proposed budget from the White House that shows increased military spending and cuts to other programs while still showing a significant deficit, Office of Management and Budget...

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‘I Don’t Speak Fluent Toddler Psychopath’: John Oliver Attempts to Explain...

On Sunday’s edition of Late Week Tonight, John Oliver jumped into President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget as only he could. “We wanted to take a look at the federal budget,” said Oliver “This...

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WATCH: Elmo Learns He Is Laid Off After Trump’s Budget Comes Out

A new video, taking target at PBS, satirizes Donald Trump‘s recent budget proposal. There has been a lot of concern expressed over what could and will happen to public broadcasting during Trump’s...

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Stephen Colbert Talks Trump’s Budget the Best Way He Can: As Comedy Central’s...

On tonight’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert resurrected his Colbert Report character. Why? Well, normal, left-leaning Colbert just couldn’t stomach the topic of Donald Trump‘s new budget proposal, which...

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