Epstein Secrets

, jolted by a recent report that found the Treasury Department was running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted," Damian Paletta and Erica Werner report. "But the talks have bogged down amid acrimony between Democrats and the White House, and now Washington's leaders run the risk of a fiscal

side the Democratic caucus. "They're four people and that's how many votes they got," she said. The Squad — consisting of Omar, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) — replied by calling Pelosi a bully. "The four are struggling with the speaker's moves to

after she won her upset last June in a Democratic congressional primary. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) -- Our Sunday magazine has a long profile of Ocasio- Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti. (Read it here first.) -- New Yorker editor David Remnick interviewed AOC after she returned from her trip to

dget and debt deal are unlikely to include many — if any — actual spending cuts, even as the debt limit is lifted for two years. Damian Palette and Erica Werner report: "The agreement appeared likely to mark a retreat for White House officials who had demanded major spending cuts in exchange for a new budg

to a fake news story he posted to his personal Facebook page on Thursday at 1:51 p.m. The story's headline attributed a fabricated quote to Ocasio- Cortez saying, 'We pay soldiers too much.' The photo on the post is marked as `satire' and it had been labeled 'false' by the website snopes.com on Wednes

dent Richard Trumka, said Monday morning that there was a deal and he planned to meet with his executive committee Monday afternoon to discuss it," Erica Werner and Lynch report. "Support from the AFL-CIO, which opposes the existing North American Free Trade Agreement and blames it for destroying millions

sagree within the party, as evidenced by a high-profile back-and-forth skirmish between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D-N.Y.). The two Democratic heavyweights have clashed since the speaker made dismissive remarks about the influence of the freshman lawmaker in an