Aman Batheja

In the 1980s, the U.S. negotiated the exile of world leaders like Haiti’s Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to France and Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines to Hawaii. Now, President Donald Trump wants Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro out of power. Ma... See more

A government shutdown could force as many as 750,000 federal employees off the job each day, at a cost of roughly $400 million in lost compensation, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new report . The projections, sent to lawmakers on T... See more

With federal funding set to expire on Wednesday, Democrats are facing one of their biggest tests of the Trump era: whether to risk a government shutdown to secure major health care concessions, or accept a Republican stopgap bill . Few are pushing Democra... See more