News and Views
September 11, 2024
Fiscal News Roundup
- Speaker Johnson Calls Off a Vote on a Bill to Avoid a Partial Government Shutdown — Associated Press
- Johnson Forced to Delay Vote on Stopgap Funding Plan as GOP Opposition Rises — Politico
- Debate-Watchers More Likely to Say Harris Won, but Perceptions of the Candidates Remain Largely Unchanged — Associated Press
- Tracking Attacks in the First Harris-Trump Debate — New York Times
- Trump Says He Doesn't Know if He and Harris Will Have 'a Rematch' — Associated Press
- 'Not His Best': Trump's Conspiracy-Laced Debate Performance Prompts Concern From Some Allies — NBC News
- Donald Trump Faces His Own Debate Fallout Just Months After Benefiting From Joe Biden's — Associated Press
- After Years of Threats, Trump Still Doesn't Have a Plan to Replace Obamacare — NBC News
- Inflation Cools to 2.5%, Slowest Rate in More Than Three Years — NBC News
- Top US and UK Diplomats Pledge Almost $1.5B in Additional Aid for Ukraine During Visit to Kyiv — Associated Press
- Social Security Benefits Are Projected to Rise 2.5% in 2025 — CBS News
Views and Analysis
- Fact Checking Debate Claims From Trump and Harris' 2024 Presidential Faceoff — CBS News
- Harris and Trump Dodge America's Dire Fiscal Future — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Harris and Trump Bet on Their Own Sharply Contrasting Views of America — Peter Baker, New York Times
- Mike Johnson's SAVE Act Stunt May Shut Down the Government — Ed Kilgore, New York
- The Question Kamala Harris Couldn't Answer — Kathleen Kingsbury, New York Times
- 'Trump Brought Darkness; Harris Brought Light': 14 Writers on Who Won the Presidential Debate — New York Times Opinion
- Harris Excels. ABC Does Its Job. Both Were Deadly for Trump — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
- Trump's Worst Debate Moments Came on Abortion, Health Care — Lisa Jarvis, Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Doesn't Know What Donald Trump Is Doing — David Dayen, American Prospect
- If Football Were Treated Like Inflation — Peter Coy, New York Times
September 10, 2024
Fiscal News Roundup
- Johnson's Government Funding Bill Advances Despite GOP Defections — Washington Post
- Johnson Forges Ahead on Spending Plan as GOP Support Crumbles — Politico
- Republicans Charge Toward Funding Vote That Appears Destined to Fail — The Hill
- Johnson's Spending Plan Falters, Facing Resistance From Both Parties — New York Times
- Trump Backs Mike Johnson Into a Corner on Shutdown — Axios
- Senate Dems Balk at Johnson's Spending Bill, but Wait to Release Their Own Plan — Politico
- Schumer: 'Bad Case of Groundhog Day' Could Lead to Shutdown — The Hill
- Presidential Debate Crib Sheet: U.S. Economy Numbers to Know — CNBC
- Poll: Economy and Inflation Top Abortion as Issues Most Important to Voters — The Hill
- Americans' Inflation-Adjusted Incomes Rebounded to Pre-Pandemic Levels Last Year — Associated Press
- Democrats Press Oil Executives on Trump's $1 Billion Ask — Politico
- Harris Economic Plan Focuses on Prices, a Key Vulnerability — New York Times
- For Trump, Tariffs Are the Solution to Almost Any Problem — New York Times
- Donald Trump's Unconventional Ground Game Is Making Republicans Nervous — Semafor
Views and Analysis
- A Clear Choice on the Issue Voters Care About Most — New York Times Editorial Board
- Threatening a Shutdown, Trump Reminds Voters What His First Term Was Really Like — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Trump Is Making Promises That Many Economists Call Unrealistic — Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley, New York Times
- The GOP Is Playing Chicken at the Worst Possible Time (for the GOP) — Timothy Noah, New Republic
- Elon Musk, Government Efficiency Expert? That Is One Really Bad Idea — Adam Lashinsky, Washington Post
- The Mirage of $2 Gas — Paul Krugman, New York Times
- Donald Trump on the Dollar, in His Own Words — Paul Krugman, New York Times
- Trump Makes No Sense and Is Full of Meaning — Jamelle Bouie, New York Times
- Young Voters Deserve Answers on the National Debt — Jeremy Etelson, The Hill