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President Trump is meeting with top Democrats at the White House again on infrastructure, this time on how to pay for the $2 trillion they want to spend.A meeting on infrastructure earlier last month prompted optimistic assessments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, but Republicans balked at the $2 trillion price tag. The White House has not committed to whether Mr. Trump supports an increase in the gas tax to fund improvements to the nation s aging roads, bridges and other key infrastructure components.Pelosi is coming to the White House following a meeting on Capitol Hill about ongoing investigations and congressional oversight of the president and his administration, a touchy topic for the presiden
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Early last December, Sallie Mae executives confronted a daunting problem. One of their big investments had gone bad. Not real estate, nor bonds, but the Republican majority in Congress.For years, the student loan giant s political action committee contributed most of its money to Republicans -- counting on the champions of free enterprise to protect the company s role in the huge student loan program in the face of Democratic efforts to convert it to a government-run operation.Now, its investment had gone sour. The Democrats had won control of Congress. And a company federa
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