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- Trump, Hoping to Salvage Midterms, Makes a Dubious Pledge to Give Every US Adult $5,000 if GOP Wins — Associated Press
- Trump's Pledge for $5K Checks Catches Officials and Allies Off Guard, Sparks GOP Blowback — CNN
- Trump's $1 Trillion-Plus 'Dividend' Plan Meets Immediate Bipartisan Pushback — CNB
- Trump Wants to Send Americans Money. Congress and Economists Don't Seem Thrilled With the Idea — Associated Press
- Trump Defends Timing of $5,000 Dividend Announcement — The Hill
- DeSantis Rebukes Trump's $5K Checks: 'More Debt and More Inflation' — Politico
- Trump Promises $500 Obamacare Rebate Checks for 1M Enrollees in 30 States — Associated Press
- Trump's Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term — Wall Street Journal
- The Unrelenting Bond Selloff Puts the 10-Year Yield on the Cusp of 5% — Wall Street Journal
- Trump Says the Iran War Is Worth the Price. The Bill Keeps Growing — Politico
- Carney, at a Cabinet Retreat, Considers Further Trade Strikes Against the US — New York Times
- From Pony Fur to Bamboo Furniture, Trump's Trade War With Canada Is Getting Even Weirder — CNN
- US Wholesale Prices Rise in Latest Sign of Stubborn Inflation as Oil Prices Continue to Climb — Associated Press
- Lawmakers Are at a Loss for How to Regulate AI as Insiders Warn of Impending Doom — Politico
- Oz's Medicaid Fraud War Room Is Prompting 'Aggressive' State Crackdowns — Politico
Views and Analysis
- $5,000 Checks for Every American? What to Know About Trump's Latest Promise — Richard Rubin and Matt Grossman, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Wants to Give Out $5,000 Checks. It Would Cost More Than $1 Trillion — John Yoon, New York Times
- Why You Shouldn't Bank on Trump's $5,000 Dividends Happening — Kathryn Watson, CBS News
- 5 Things to Know About Trump's $5K Dividend Pledge — Ryan Mancini, The Hill
- Trump Promised $5,000 Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms. How Would That Work? — Maria Ramirez Uribe, PBS Newshour
- "Election Dividends" Would Explode Deficit and Worsen Inflation — Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Republicans Showcase Their 'Big Beautiful Bill' to Voters, but the Law's Impact Has Been Mixed — Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
- Government Bonds Are Safe Assets, Right? — Washington Post Editorial Board
- America Is Losing Its Captive Creditors — Benn Steil, Financial Times
- The Department Created to Stop Another 9/11 May No Longer Be Equipped for Counterterrorism Work — Eric Bazail-Eimil, Politico
- After 9/11, the U.S. Built an Anti-Terror Apparatus. Trump Is Using It at Home — Warren P. Strobel, Washington Post
- How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump's Warmongering — Andrew Lanham, New Republic
- The Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax Remains a Strong Option for US Business Tax Reform — Richard DiSalvo and Guy Cardwell, Tax Foundation
Fiscal News Roundup
- Treasury Department to Buy Back Up to $6 Billion in Longer-Term Debt, Triple the Normal Level — CNBC
- Bond Market Rebuffs Treasury's $6 Billion Plan to Reduce Borrowing Costs — New York Times
- Bessent Had Set Bar High for Buybacks — Wall Street Journal
- Bessent's Latest Buyback Move Leaves Investors Wanting More — Wall Street Journal
- Oil Rises Past $100 a Barrel After the Latest Wave of Middle East Attacks — Associated Press
- Iran Ready for More Intense War and Won't Relent, Official Says — Bloomberg
- Trump Predicts Iran War Will End 'Immediately After the Election' — The Hill
- Trump Administration Proposes Dramatic Overhaul of 2030 Census That Changes Who Counts as Living in America — Politico
- An Unnamed Donor Responds to Global Aid Cuts With a Record Gift for the Nonprofit Americares — Associated Press
- States That Gave Data Centers Billions in Tax Breaks Are Now Ripping Up the Deals — Wall Street Journal
- Trump Gave $45,000 Holiday Gifts to Natalie Harp and Two Other White House Aides — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- Every Bond Trader Should Be Worried About Medicare — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Will the Bond Market Mayhem Make Rich People Want to Pay More Taxes? — Timothy Noah, New Republic
- 'They Will Crawl Over Glass to Vote for the President': Trump Needs to Put Himself on the Ballot to Juice the Base — Alex Gangitano and Megan Messerly, Politico
- Who Will Be the Bigger Midterm Loser? — Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- JD Vance Doesn't Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers — Jessica Grose, New York Times
- Trump's Canada Tariffs Could Be Stopped By a Lawsuit. Why Has Nobody Filed One? — Elie Honig, New York
- Six Charts That Explain How Americans Really Feel About the Economy — Justin Lahart, Wall Street Journal
- Cattle Ranchers Have a Beef With Trump — David Dayen and Zachary Groz, American Prospect
- Ominous Outlook for Medicare Drug Spending — Adriel Bettelheim, Axios
- Most Americans Have Stopped Believing the Government — Nia Prater, New York
- Blame Ronald Reagan — Jonathan Kaufman, New York Times