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Trump Budget Cut Bid Would Make It 'Impossible' For UN To Continue Work: Sources
US President Donald Trump's bid to slash funding for the United Nations would make it "impossible" for it to continue its essential work, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that the organisation was ready to discuss reform with Washington.
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Next on the agenda for Washington: Fight over debt
The down-to-the-wire partisan struggle over cuts to this year's federal budget has intensified concern in Washington, on Wall Street and among economists about the more consequential clash coming over increasing the government's borrowing limit.Congressional Republicans are vowing that before they will agree to raise the current $14.25 trillion fed...
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US: No accord in budget talks as policy fights hamper deal
Another day of intense negotiations between the two parties failed to yield a budget deal on Thursday, leaving the federal government hours from a shutdown. After the third round of White House talks in 24 hours with Speaker John A. Boehner and Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, President Obama said that they had made progress and that he hope...
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Trump Budget Cut Bid Would Make It 'Impossible' For UN To Continue Work: Sources
US President Donald Trump's bid to slash funding for the United Nations would make it "impossible" for it to continue its essential work, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that the organisation was ready to discuss reform with Washington.
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Next on the agenda for Washington: Fight over debt
The down-to-the-wire partisan struggle over cuts to this year's federal budget has intensified concern in Washington, on Wall Street and among economists about the more consequential clash coming over increasing the government's borrowing limit.Congressional Republicans are vowing that before they will agree to raise the current $14.25 trillion fed...
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US: No accord in budget talks as policy fights hamper deal
Another day of intense negotiations between the two parties failed to yield a budget deal on Thursday, leaving the federal government hours from a shutdown. After the third round of White House talks in 24 hours with Speaker John A. Boehner and Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, President Obama said that they had made progress and that he hope...
