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Fiscal News Roundup
- Johnson Cuts Short House Session to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files — New York Times
- White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog's Inquiries Into Spending Cuts — New York Times
- Trump Looking at Removing Capital Gains on House Sales — Wall Street Journal
- Trump Signals He Could Let Powell Serve Out His Term as Federal Reserve Chair — Washington Post
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management Shedding a Third of Its Staff — New York Times
- Spending Bills Reject Trump Plans for DOJ Overhaul — Roll Call
- Elizabeth Warren Vows to Fight Government Funding Bill — Politico
- House Members to Get More Funding for Protection Back Home — Politico
- Trump Says Philippines Will Pay 19% Tariff While U.S. Pays No Tariffs Under Deal With Leader Marcos — Associated Press
- IMF Warns of Global Imbalances That Trump's Tariffs Won't Fix — Bloomberg
- Bessent Sees China Tariff Truce Extended in Sweden Next Week — Bloomberg
- GM Profit Shrinks After $1.1 Billion Tariff Hit — Wall Street Journal
- AstraZeneca Pledges $50bn in US Investment as Trump Pharma Tariffs Loom — Financial Times
- Growing Share of Retirees Lean Heavily on Social Security, AARP Says — CBS News
- Efforts to Shrink Social Security's Phone Wait Times Are Putting a Strain Elsewhere — NPR
- Cuts to Food Benefits Stand in the Way of RFK Jr.'s Goals for a Healthier National Diet — KFF Health News
- Scoop: The Overlooked Data Trump Economists See Predicting a Boom Ahead — Axios
Views and Analysis
- Are 5 Million Nondisabled Medicaid Recipients Watching TV All Day? That's Unsupported — Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact
- Is Medicaid Rife With Fraudsters? One Man Explains Why He Breaks a Rule — Katheryn Houghton, NPR
- Meet the Medicaid Double-Dippers — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium Increases — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Lisa Murkowski Suddenly Realizes She Got Played on Trump Budget Bill — Edith Olmsted, New Republic
- Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills — Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
- Oops, Turns Out Trump's Megabill Actually Increased the Deficit — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
- Young Workers Could Lose $110,000 in Lifetime Earnings to Keep Social Security Solvent — Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia, CATO Institute
- It's Not Too Late to Spare This Crucial Intelligence Agency — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post
- "You Feel Like Your Life Is Over:" Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 — Human Rights Watch
Fiscal News Roundup
- GOP Megabill's Final Score: $3.4T in Red Ink and 10 Million Kicked off Health Insurance, CBO Says — Politico
- Thune Seeks to Kick Off Appropriations on Senate Floor — Roll Call
- Congress Democrats Seek Shutdown Strategy as White House Plots to Strip Their Power — Politico
- EPA Eliminates Research and Development Office, Begins Layoffs — ABC News
- Education Department Will Release Some Frozen Grants Supporting After-School and Summer Programs — Associated Press
- Treasury Secretary Bessent Calls for a Review of 'the Entire' Federal Reserve — CNBC
- Judge Rules Trump Administration Broke Law in Takedown of Public Funding Tracker — The Hill
- $50B Rural Health 'Slush Fund' Faces Questions, Skepticism — KFF Health News
- Over Half of Americans Say 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Going to Raise Health Care Costs: Poll — The Hill
- Wall Street Likes the Economy More Than Voters Do — Axios
- Nearly Two-Thirds Disapprove of Trump's Handling of Inflation: Survey — The Hill
- Republicans Are Ready to Revive Stalled Health Care Legislation. Dems Want the GOP to Pay a Price — Politico
- Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them — New York Times
- When Getting Fired Is Only the Beginning for Federal Workers — New York Times
- Stellantis Swings to Loss as Trump Tariffs Hit Fiat and Jeep Maker — Financial Times
- Georgia Shows Rough Road Ahead for States as Medicaid Work Requirements Loom — KFF Health News
Views and Analysis
- How the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts Ballooned the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' — Taylor Miller Thomas, Paula Friedrich and Jonathan Lai, Politico
- Trump's Budget Could Break the Economy — Robert J. Shapiro, Washington Monthly
- Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent — Ben S. Bernanke and Janet L. Yellen, New York Times
- RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure — Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg
- HHS Under Kennedy Might Be Moving to Undercut Lifesaving Preventive Care — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
- An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation — Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times
- Is Wall Street Still Too Bearish on the Impact of Tariffs? — Jonathan Levin, Bloomberg
- The U.S. Economy Is Regaining Its Swagger — Rachel Wolfe and Konrad Putzier, Wall Street Journal
- These Are the Long-Term Costs of Trump's Trade War — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Trump's Trade War Hits a New Low With Big Tariffs on Brazil — Max Boot, Washington Post
- Republicans Said They Would Cut Waste. Instead, They Rewarded It — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Washington Post
- Regret, Thy Name Is Hawley. And Murkowski. And Musk — Frank Bruni, New York Times
- 'Fiscal Populism' Is Coming for Central Banks — Andy Haldane, Financial Times
- The Cruelty of Medicaid Work Requirements — Emma Janssen, American Prospect
- New York City Has the Power to Bring Down Grocery Prices. All Cities Do — Zephyr Teachout, New York Times