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Fiscal News Roundup
- Hegseth Faces Sharp Questions From Congress on Deploying Troops to LA and Pentagon Spending — Associated Press
- Pentagon Estimates Sending Marines, National Guard to LA Will Cost $134M — The Hill
- Top Republican Breaks With Trump's Marine Deployment to LA — Politico
- California Governor Asks Court to Block Trump Administration From Using Troops in Immigration Raids — Associated Press
- Senate GOP Finalizing Scaled-Down Food Stamp Cuts After Backlash — Politico
- Republicans Back Off Medicare Changes in GOP Megabill — Politico
- 3 Dozen House Republicans Urge Senate GOP Against 'Budget Gimmicks,' Deficit Increases — The Hill
- House GOP Effort to Lock in DOGE Cuts Faces Republican Resistance — The Hill
- RFK Jr.'s Firing of CDC Vaccine Panel Undermines Science, Could Threaten Public Health, Experts Say — CNBC
- Pentagon to Restore Names of 7 More Army Bases That Honored Confederate Generals — The Hill
Views and Analysis
- RFK Jr. Made Some Promises on Vaccines to Get Confirmed. Is He Breaking Them? — Aaron Blake, CNN
- RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Wall Street Journal
- Taking Stock of the Health Coverage Impacts of the House Reconciliation Bill — Matthew Fiedler, Health Affairs
- Don't Expect Much Growth From the One Big, Beautiful Bill — William G. Gale and Kyle Pomerleau, Tax Policy Center
- New US Tariffs Are Working as Intended, Right? Wrong — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Tariffs Are Finally Starting to Sink In —
- Trump's Tariffs Are Likely to Outlast Him — Clive Crook, Bloomberg
- This Burning Tariff Question Has No Answer... Yet — John Authers, Bloomberg
- National Debt Is a Crisis. Congress Must Take It Seriously — Maya MacGuineas, Dallas Morning News
- DOGE Has Work Left to Do — David Walker, Wall Street Journal
- The White House Wants This Fight With Los Angeles — Ronald Brownstein, Bloomberg
Fiscal News Roundup
- Senate Republicans Plan to Release Major Revisions to Trump's Tax Bill —
- GOP Senators' Competing Demands Risk Pulling Trump Megabill Apart —
- Johnson Urges Senate to Minimize Changes to $40,000 SALT Deal —
- House to Make Fixes to GOP Megabill to Avoid 'Fatal' Ruling With Senate Parliamentarian —
- Breaking With Trump, Bacon Says He Won't Follow His Party 'Off the Cliff' —
- Republicans and Economists at Odds Over Whether Megabill Will Spur Growth Boom —
- Democrats Hate Trump's Policy Bill, but Love Some of Its Tax Cuts —
- RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel —
- Trump Aides Urge Court to Spare Tariffs as They Dismiss Worries in Public —
- Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Reverse Trump's Staff Cuts at Program That Helps Americans Afford Heat, Air Conditioning —
- The Medicare Tweak Republicans Are Eyeing for Their Megabill Is Actually Bipartisan —
- Democrats Say Rubio Isn't Playing It Straight About Foreign Aid Cuts —
- Speaker Johnson Teases Follow-Ups to the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' —
- Republican Urges Trump to Reconsider Proposed Broadcasting Cuts —
- When Federal Cuts Imperil a Crucial Project in a Red County —
- Social Security Chief Says Musk's DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency's Plans —
Views and Analysis
- Seven Hidden Ways Trump's Megabill Would Remake America —
- What the GOP Is Planning Now Is Even Worse Than All Those Debt Ceiling Fights —
- This Senator's Comment on Medicaid Cuts Was Brutal but Accurate —
- Democrats' Big Bet on the 'Big Beautiful Bill' —
- Trump Bill's Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage —
- Mike Crapo's Megabill Mission: Impossible —
- The 'Big, Beautiful' Bill Creates a $5 Billion Tax Shelter for Private School Donors —
- Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency —
- The Supreme Court Just Gave DOGE the Keys to the Kingdom —
- Trump's Tariffs Aimed at Reviving Manufacturing Are Doing the Opposite —
- My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country —