News Views
Fiscal News Roundup
- Schumer Says Funding Deal Reached as Senate GOP Leaders Try to Set Evening Vote — CNN
- Dems Clinch Deal With White House as Shutdown Looms — Axios
- Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avert Shutdown and Fund Homeland Security for Now — Associated Press
- House Infighting Will Complicate Brewing Senate Spending Deal — Politico
- Senators Block Funding Package Amid DHS Standoff — Politico
- Jeffries Demands Ban on Deportation of US Citizens as Part of DHS Reforms — The Hill
- Why 7 GOP Senators Voted Against Bill to Keep Government Open Past Friday — The Hill
- Trump Faces Fresh MAGA Blowback for Efforts to 'De-Escalate' in Minnesota — Washington Post
- ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US — Bloomberg
- FEMA Could Still Support Winter Storm Response in a Shutdown, Despite Administration Warnings — Associated Press
- Noem Approves Billions in FEMA Payments — Associated Press
- RSC Hosts Staff Briefing to Pitch Party-Line Bill — Politico
- U.S. Trade Deficit Widens Despite Trump's Tariffs — New York Times
- Twix Is OK but Granola Isn't as States Deploy New Food Stamp Rules — New York Times
- Here's When You'll Get Your Tax Refund From the IRS — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- False and Misleading Claims Made During Trump's First Cabinet Meeting of 2026 — Associated Press
- Senator Tina Smith: I Won't Vote to Fund ICE Until It Gets Out of My State — Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), New York Times
- The GOP Is Losing One of Its Best Issues — Adam Wren, Politico
- Trump Is Scared of the Politics of ICE. And It's Showing — Aaron Blake, CNN
- Democrats Determined to Squander Advantage on DHS Funding — David Dayen, American Prospect
- The Minneapolis ICE Charade in One Chart — Jessica Karl, Bloomberg
- Companies Reap $22 Billion From Trump's Immigration Crackdown — Peter Andringa, Clara Murray, Stephen Foley and Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times
- Biden's Push for Renewables Funding Trump's Push to 'Drill, Baby, Drill' — James Varney, Real Clear Investigations
- The World's Worst Budget Process — Van Taylor, Wall Street Journal
- The Perils of a Falling Trump Dollar — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Trump's Team Paints a Misleading Picture on Housing — Josh Boak, Associated Press
- Trump's Trade Policies Sort Manufacturers Into Winners and Losers — Lydia DePillis and Ana Swanson, New York Times
- Who Should Shoulder the Tax Burden in a Resort Town? — Jim Zarroli, New York Times
- Meet 'Coalie,' the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy — Mark Gongloff, Bloomberg
Fiscal News Roundup
- Partial Federal Shutdown Seems Increasingly Likely as Democrats Demand Major Changes to ICE — Associated Press
- Shutdown Threatens to Hit IRS as Trump Touts Massive Tax Refunds — Bloomberg
- Senate Democrats Float DHS Changes in Shutdown Stalemate — Politico
- House Republicans Warn Against Senate Changing DHS Funding Bill — The Hill
- GOP Senators Open to Splitting Off DHS Funding to Pass Other Key Spending Bills — The Hill
- IRS Faces Stiff Challenges in 2026 Tax Season Due to Workforce Cuts and New Laws, Watchdog Says — Associated Press
- Republicans Set to Make 'Best and Final' Obamacare Offer, Moreno Says — Politico
- Rubio Details How the Trump Administration Will Control Venezuela's Oil Money — Associated Press
- Unions Sue FEMA Over Work Force Cuts They Say Threaten Readiness — New York Times
- Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady as a Defiant Jerome Powell Resists White House Pressure — NBC News
- Democrats Urge Trump to Release Funds for Gateway Tunnel Project Linking New York and New Jersey — Politico
- Treasury Secretary Predicts 25 Million Will Take Advantage of New 'Trump Accounts' for Kids — NBC News
- Medicare Will Negotiate the Price of Botox and 14 Other Drugs This Year — NBC News
- DHS Officers Who Shot Alex Pretti Were Placed on Administrative Leave — MS Now
- Top Hunt Aide Charged Taxpayers $44,000 in Hotel Expenses — Politico
- In Some States, a Push to End All Property Taxes for Homeowners — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- What Americans Really Mean by 'Affordability' — Nate Cohn, New York Times
- Congress Needs to Rein In a Reckless Deportation Campaign — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- The Time for Democrats to Start Dismantling ICE Is Now — Hayes Brown, MS Now
- Many Obamacare Enrollees Have Switched to Cheaper Bronze Plans. Here's Why That Could Be Risky — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News
- Trump Has Four Finalists to Run the Fed. None of Them Are Exactly What He Wants — Nick Timiraos and Meredith McGraw, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Proposal Signals Medicare Austerity — Kelly Hooper, Politico
- Health Insurers Dodge Trump's Pricing Crackdown, for Now — Cheyenne Haslett and Kelly Hooper, Politico
- On China, Trump Is Rolling the Dice on America's Future — Kurt Campbell, New York Times
- Midterms Are Dems' to Lose-and They May — Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- Tough Fiscal Lessons From My First Year in the Senate — Sen. David McCormick (R-PA), Wall Street Journal