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Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump-Xi Summit Ends With Tea and Tour but Little Visible Policy Progress — New York Times
- Supreme Court, Over Liberal Dissents, Lets DHS Overhaul Immigration Database for Midterms — The Hill
- US Military Lays Groundwork for Potential Action Around Cuba — CBS News
- Bracing for Midterm Losses, Republicans in Congress Try a Pre-election Pivot — New York Times
- Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump TV Ad Campaign Grows With New Spot, Wider Reach — Associated Press
- White House Eyes Diesel Fuel Moves That Fall Short of Export Ban — Politico
- New Bill Would Lower Social Security Retirement Age for Some Workers — CBS News
- NIH Funding Cuts Delayed a Promising Childhood Brain Cancer Trial. Patients Lost Time They Didn't Have — CNBC
- Bond Sell-Off Continues as 10-Year Yield Hits 5.19% — Axios
- Warsh's Regime Change at the Fed Pushes Ahead - and Meets Resistance — CNBC
- Fed's Hammack Says Yields Reflect Growth, US Debt and Rate Path — Bloomberg
- Appropriators Push to Protect Kennedy Center From Demolition — Roll Call
Views and Analysis
- History Shows Financial Calamities Occur When Rates Rise Rapidly Like This: 'Something Always Breaks' — Sean Conlon, CNBC
- Bond Yields at 5% Mark New Era 'Until Something Breaks' — Michael MacKenzie and Enda Curran, Bloomberg
- Why the Bond Market Is Freaking Out, and What It Means for Your Money — Aimee Picchi, CBS News
- Watch: The Less-Scary Reason Behind Surging Bond Yields — Telis Demos, Wall Street Journal (video)
- The Robust U.S. Economy Powers Through Rate Hikes and Rising Bond Yields — Matt Grossman and Sam Goldfarb, Wall Street Journal
- Trump and Xi's Empty Summit Is Straight Out of the 1930s — Andreas Kluth, Bloomberg
- Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Vance's Plan for Stay-at-Home Moms Thinks Too Small — Abby McCloskey, Bloomberg
- The Economic Squeeze Is Pushing Up Poverty Rates for Older Adults — Jennifer Ludden, NPR
- Rise of the Red-State Democrats — Ed Kilgore, New York
- Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It's Working — Eric Blanc, New York Times
- Tax Complexity Now Costs the US Economy over $544 Billion Annually — Alex Muresianu and Guy Cardwell, Tax Foundation
- How Private Equity Is Killing Public Access to Hospitals and Emergency Care — Dr. Heather Prendergast, The Hill
- Will an FDA Crackdown Curb Access to Cheaper GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs? Here's What to Know — Daniel Gilbert, CBS News
Fiscal News Roundup
- U.S.-China Trade Truce Extended for Two Months, Bessent Says, as Xi Begins State Visit — CNBC
- Senate Rejects Resolution to Halt the Iran War as Gas Prices Upend Midterms — Associated Press
- CNN, MS NOW and Politico Back at the White House After Judge Ordered Trump to Lift Ban — Associated Press
- Treasury Yields Rip Higher on Renewed Inflation Fear — Axios
- US Long-Term Borrowing Costs Touch Highest Level Since 2004 — Financial Times
- ICE Is Wasting Tens of Millions of Dollars on 'Uninformed' Detention Projects, Report Finds — Associated Press
- 'Love Me' Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms — New York Times
- The Senate Won't Tackle Affordability Before the Midterms — Washington Sun
- 'Let's Push Prices Down': Wright Asks Oil Industry to Curb Exports — Politico
- Climate Disasters Are Growing. So Are Cuts to Programs That Prepare for Them — Associated Press
- Mortgage Rates Climb for 5th Straight Week, Pushing Average Rate on a 30-Year Home Loan Above 7% — Associated Press
- US Will Make Up to $7 Billion in Loans to Help Trump Ally Milei Tap Argentina's Oil and Minerals — Associated Press
- FDA Nominee Contradicts Trump on Safety of Measles Vaccine — Politico
- The Economic Squeeze Is Pushing Up Poverty Rates for Older Adults — NPR
- Battle of Hospital AI vs. Insurer AI Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher — New York Times
Views and Analysis
- Trump-Xi Summit Is Set to Be High in Pageantry and Low in Substance — NBC News
- Trump Struggles to Find Leverage With Xi Over Chinese Exports — New York Times
- Trump's Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World — New York Times
- JD Vance Is Not Ripping Away Anyone's Health Insurance Coverage — Washington Post
- Trump's "Big, Beautiful" Bill Is About to Screw With States' Budgets — New Republic
- Working-Class Americans Aren't Sold on Tariffs — Cato Institute
- Bond Markets Are a Canary. Trump Isn't Listening — Washinton Post
- Where America's Biggest Cities Get Their Tax Revenue — Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
- Don't Count on Growth to Fix the Debt — Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget