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The bottom line: Passage of the rescissions package is another win for Trump as he nears the six-month mark of his second term. Fiscal hawks in the GOP may celebrate the spending cuts codifying DOGE’s ...
In a research note, Brusuelas said the data is consistent with an increase in the overall inflation rate to a range between 3 ...
President Trump and Elon Musk have ramped up their on-again-off-again feud, with the tech mogul announcing that he has launched a new party, the America Party, after criticizing Trump’s tax and ...
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The Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the massive reconciliation package that would deliver on much of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda, would add at least $3.3 ...
To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system ...
Across the political spectrum, people warn of a coming time bomb in our retirement system.
Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a ...
The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...
It’s been about 20 years since the U.S. suddenly fell in love with the adorable 5-inch Beanie Baby dolls created by Ty Warner. In a new book called The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion ...
Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...