Byron York
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While other controversies rage, work on border wall moves forwardMay 31, 2017 1:00 am - New revelations come almost by the minute in the Trump-Russia affair. A reasonable observer might conclude that is all that is happening in the Trump administration. But...
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On Capitol Hill, growing frustration with FBI secrecy about Russia probeMay 17, 2017 1:00 am - Calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the Russia-Trump affair have multiplied in the days since President Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Almost invariably...
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Spending bill, not Obamacare, reveals deep GOP divisionMay 11, 2017 1:00 am - If you want to see what divides Republicans in Congress, don't look at the struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare. Look at spending. The House's narrow passage of a pa...
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Why can't House repeal Obamacare? Because a lot of Republicans don't want toMay 04, 2017 1:00 am - "We're going to go when we have the votes," Speaker Paul Ryan said last week when asked when the House will pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Lawmakers will n...
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Trump's first 100 days: an executive successApr 28, 2017 1:00 am - Of course Donald Trump over-promised for his first 100 days. What presidential candidate hasn't? During last year's campaign, Trump spoke frequently of all the things he...
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Trump's long march problemApr 20, 2017 1:00 am - A new president needs to staff his administration with people who will be loyal to him. Donald Trump's problem is that he does not have enough loyalists to staff the Whi...
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With Syria attack, Trump uses element of surprise - on his votersApr 13, 2017 1:00 am - Belligerence is in the air in Washington. President Trump is enjoying (extremely rare) bipartisan praise for a cruise-missile attack on Syria. There's tough talk from so...
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Schiff mum on what he saw at White HouseApr 06, 2017 1:00 am - Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has been sharply critical of the panel's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, for visiting the White Hous...
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Whatever Trump does next, it has to be about jobs and wagesMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - What will President Trump do after the Obamacare debacle? For 48 hours, some Hill Republicans - and Trump himself - spoke as if the president and the GOP could smoothly,...
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How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrongMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention,...