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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.
Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.
Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

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** FILE ** Parkland Memorial Hospital financial counselor Kaneaka Guidry, back left, helps Cathleen and Jerry Brown sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act while Vyncent Bosh, front left, receives help from Tiffany Ruiz, Parkland Memorial Hospital financial counselor, front right, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ron Baselice)

White House won’t rule out delay of Obamacare; buyers wait for website fix

The Obama administration remains committed to getting Obamacare up and running on time, but the White House this week left itself enough wiggle room if it decides it must delay the mandate that everyone have health insurance — a centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act — if consumers continue to have problems signing up.

October 22, 2013
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he visits Martha's Table, which assists the poor and where furloughed federal employees are volunteering, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013. Speaking there Obama said that if Republicans can't resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling and the partial government shutdown, quote, "we stand a good chance of defaulting." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama predicts budget, debt-ceiling deal will get done

Saying that a growing number of congressional Republicans realize they've been pursuing a "bad strategy" in ongoing fiscal talks, President Obama on Tuesday predicted that a deal will get done before America breaches its debt ceiling.

October 15, 2013
The Supreme Court (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Parts of climate-change agenda to come before Supreme Court

The Supreme Court set the stage for a high-stakes showdown over President Obama's climate change agenda, agreeing Tuesday to hear a series of cases involving the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to mandate greenhouse gas emission controls at utilities, factories and other facilities around the country.

October 15, 2013
Expanded background checks on gun purchases, immigration reform and other key goals for the president over the next three years threaten to be crowded out and ultimately relegated to the political graveyard if President Obama is unable to make a deal with Republicans on the government shutdown and debt ceiling. (associated press)

Obama’s second-term agenda could hinge on shutdown resolution

Some of president's key goals hang in balance. The eventual resolution to the government shutdown and debt-ceiling standoff carries serious consequences for the U.S. economy, but it also could make or break President Obama's second-term agenda.

October 10, 2013
President Richard M. Nixon, left, and President Obama.

Obama administration most secretive since Nixon: Report

The Obama White House's war against leaks, and its penchant for secrecy and noted lack of transparency, are the worst "since the Nixon administration," according to a major new study that relied on interviews from leading Washington reporters and news organization chiefs.

October 10, 2013
Partisan critics say President Obama's continuing embrace of rendition, along with his inability to shutter Guantanamo, are proof that his assertions as a candidate have collided with the realities of being the commander in chief, most recently the weekend raids in Somalia and Libya. (Associated Press)

White House embrace of Bush-era anti-terrorism policies continues

President Obama's decision this weekend to authorize capture and rendition of a top terror target in Libya has reignited questions about his use of Bush-era tools and tactics — and has given more ammunition to critics who say it's time he makes a clean break from policies of the past.

October 7, 2013
**FILE** Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama’s top climate adviser to leave, report says

The White House's chief climate change adviser reportedly will leave the administration within the next several weeks, leaving a key hole in the leadership team charged with overseeing President Obama's ambitious global-warming agenda.

October 7, 2013
Ben Carson, right, speaking at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he burst on the national scene when he criticized Obamacare with President Obama himself seated nearby on the dais. (Courtesy of C-SPAN)

The long line of conservatives targeted by the IRS

Tea party groups, Franklin Graham, Christine O'Donnell, a pro-marriage group. And now Dr. Ben Carson. The list of conservatives targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for audits, tax-exempt reviews or tax privacy breaches keeps growing, raising fresh questions in Washington about whether a scandal the Obama administration has blamed on bureaucratic incompetence and coincidence may in fact involve something more nefarious.

October 3, 2013