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Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump Calls Off New Military Strikes on Iran Hours After Threatening Escalation — Associated Press
- Trump Demands $350B Pentagon Infusion, Elections Overhaul in Next Party-Line Gop Bill — Politico
- Trump Rips McConnell, Murkowski From Oval Office — The Hill
- Appeals Court Says U.S. Government Can Keep Collecting 10% Tariffs for Now — Associated Press
- Judge Rejects Bid to Halt 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund, Warns DOJ Not to 'Play Possum' — The Hill
- Senate Panel Approves Department of War Name Change — Politico
- House Lawmakers Back 2027 Military Pay Raise — Federal News Network
- Hakeem Jeffries Says Democrats Will Prioritize Affordability. Not All of His Members Agree — Politico
- After Senate Loss, Cornyn Predicts 'Miserable' Final Two Years for Trump — New York Times
- House Rejects Bill to Extend Spy Power, All but Assuring a Lapse — New York Times
- Trump Picks New Intelligence Chief After Revolt Over Pulte — New York Times
- US-Canada Bridge Fight Rages: Opening Delayed, Invites Voided — Bloomberg
- They Want to Rebuild Rayburn. First, They Have to Build Enough Support — Roll Call
- Inside the 'Highly Complex' Preparations for Trump's UFC Fight: $60M for Staging, 494 Port-a-Potties and Other Logistics — CNN
- US Puts Up $750K to Evacuate an American Who Was Aboard Hantavirus Cruise Ship From Remote Island — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- There's Nothing to Show for the Lengthy DHS Funding Battle — Washington Post Editorial Board
- What Exactly Has This Congress Achieved? — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Republicans Are Triple-Dipping Funding for Mass Deportation — Ryan Cooper, American Prospect
- Trump Isn't Giving Up on His Slush Fund — Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic
- The Catastrophic Failure of 2008 Shows Where Kevin Warsh Should Start — John H. Cochrane and Amit Seru, Washington Post
- The Young Economic Populists Reshaping the Left — The Daily, New York Times (podcast)
- A Minimum Wage Natural Experiment Has Been Running for Over a Decade — Arin Dube, Substack
- Inside the Campaign to Discredit a Key Climate Science Report — Corbin Hiar, Lesley Clark and Chelsea Harvey, Politico
Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump Signs Bill Giving Nearly $70B to His Immigration Enforcement Agenda Through End of His Term — Associated Press
- 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund Challengers Question Its Demise — Roll Call
- Judge Rejects Watchdog's Bid to Block Trump Administration's $1.8B 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund — Associated Press
- Inflation Jumps to 4.2%, the Highest Since Early 2023 — NBC News
- Trump Has a New, Surprising Take on the Higher Cost of Living: 'I Love the Inflation' — Associated Press
- Oil Prices Set to Keep Rising Even After Iran Conflict Ends, Shell Boss Says — Wall Street Journal
- 'The Die Has Been Cast': Trump Allies Fear It's Too Late to Reverse Economic Woes — Politico
- Bond Traders Keep Bets on a Fed Hike in 2026 After CPI Data — Bloomberg
- ICE Mandates Additional Training for New Hires After Backlash — CBS News
- Four Senior Senators Express Alarm, Push for 'Hard' Social Security Votes — The Hill
- Hopes Dim for Renewing Spy Law as Trump Digs In on Bill Pulte — New York Times
- Treasury Watchdog Finds No Evidence Backing Musk's Payment Fraud Claims — Politico
- Trump Law Would Also Direct Voucher Money to Public Schools — New York Times
- Looming Medicaid Cuts Supercharge California's Latest Labor-Industry Fight — KFF Health News
- Want to Skip a 12-Month Line for a U.S. Visa? That'll Be $750 — New York Times
Views and Analysis
- Republicans Just Took ICE Spending Fights Off the Table. It Won't End Shutdown Threats — Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus, Politico
- Inflation Gets Even Worse — Washington Post Editorial Board
- An Inflation Silver Lining — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Here Are the Key Takeaways From the US CPI Report for May — Enda Curran, Bloomberg
- Kevin Warsh Catches an Inflation Break at the Fed — Robert Burgess, Bloomberg
- The Fed Might Yet Again Take the Punch Bowl Away — Richard Bernstein, Financial Times
- Are We Stuck With Trump's Outrageous IRS Immunity Deal? — Elie Honig, New York
- Only AI Can Save Social Security and Medicare — James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
- Rich Americans Should Welcome Higher Capital-Gains Taxes — Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Bloomberg
- What if Everything We Know About the Economy Is Dead Wrong? — Monica Potts, New Republic
- Trump's Latest Big Tax Increase — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- What Happened to the Great Rebirth of American Manufacturing? — Brooke Masters, Financial Times
- The ICE Occupation of Minneapolis Is Still Wreaking Economic Carnage — Bryce Covert, American Prospect
- Trump's Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse — Melissa L. Finucane, New York Times
- The White House's Top Science Goal Is Ignorance — Mark Gongloff, Bloomberg