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Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump Visits a Ford Pickup Truck Factory, Aiming to Promote His Efforts to Boost Manufacturing — Associated Press
- Blowback Builds Over Criminal Investigation of Powell — New York Times
- Trump 'Immediately' Imposes 25% Tariffs on Countries That Do Business With Iran. That Could Include China — CNN
- US Core CPI Rises 0.2%, Bucking Estimates for Bigger Rebound — Bloomberg
- In a Risky Gambit, Trump Tries Brute Force to Lower Prices — New York Times
- In Pivot on Affordability, Trump Unveils Barrage of Proposals to Address Costs — Wall Street Journal
- Trump Calls for a 10% Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates — NPR
- Wall Street Executives Warn Trump: Stop Attacking the Fed and Credit Card Industry — Associated Press
- Trump's Fed, ICE Crises Confound Republicans' Midterms Messaging — Bloomberg
- House Conservatives Pitch Framework for Second Big GOP-Only Bill on Affordability — The Hill
- Schumer Dodges on Whether Democrats Will Draw a Hard Line on ICE Funding Ahead of January 30 Deadline — CNN
- House GOP Tees Up 2 Amendment Votes on Latest Funding Package — Politico
- Senators Punt Release of Health Package to End of January — Politico
- Judge Orders HHS to Restore Funding for Children's Health Programs as Lawsuit Continues — Associated Press
- Congress Agrees to Fund Voice of America, Bucking Trump Shutdown Order — Washington Post
- UnitedHealth Used Aggressive Tactics to Boost Medicare Payments, Senate Report Finds — Wal Street Journal
- Gavin Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California — New York Times
- AbbVie Strikes $100 Billion Investment Deal With Trump, Will Lower Medicaid Prices — Wall Street Journal
Views and Analysis
- Here Are the Key Takeaways From the US CPI Report for December — Chris Anstey, Bloomberg
- Trump's Scheming to Sack Powell Paves the Road to Constitutional Ruin — Thomas L. Freidman, New York Times
- The Economic Toll of Trump's Policies Will Soon Be Visible — Adam S. Posen, Bloomberg Businessweek
- Fed That Fights Back Is a Threat to Trump's Takeover Plan — Enda Curran, Amara Omeokwe, Joshua Green and Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg
- Why the $38 Trillion National Debt Doomed Fed Independence Regardless of the Trump/Powell Drama — Eva Roytburg, Fortune
- Why Powell Isn't Flinching at Trump's Attack — Victoria Guida, Politico
- What's at Stake in Trump's War on Powell — Neil Irwin, Courtenay Brown, Axios
- Trump Wants a Bigger Military. There's Just One Problem — Henry Olsen, Washington Post
- Running Deficits Larger Than During the Great Depression Is Reckless — Washington Post Editorial Board
- The Trump Administration Plot to Destroy Public Education — Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) American Prospect
- Congress to Reject Trump Global Health Cuts — Kelly Hooper and Sophie Gardner, Politico
- The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland — Casey Michel, New Republic
- Greenland or NATO? Trump Can't Have Both — William A. Galston, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief-Not Subsidies-as the Solution to Obamacare — Michael F. Cannon, CATO Institute
- Making the American Dream Affordable Again Takes a Second Reconciliation Bill — Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), The Hill
Fiscal News Roundup
- DOJ Probe Into Powell Sparks Backlash From Some Republicans, Former Fed Chairs — ABC News
- Trump's List of Targeted Opponents Grows Longer With Action Against Powell and the Federal Reserve — Associated Press
- Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump's Political Fight — New York Times
- Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen and Other Past Officials Say Trump Using 'Prosecutorial Attacks' to Undermine Fed — CNBC
- 'Freaked Out' About the Bond Market: White House Reels From Powell Probe — Politico
- This Week on the Hill: Lawmakers Race to Prevent Partial Government Shutdown — The Hill
- Spending Bill Would Boost Court Security, Public Defenders — Roll Call
- Trump Says He May Veto Extension of Health Care Subsidies — Bloomberg
- This GOP Senator Says Reviving Obamacare Subsidies Would Be 'Putting America First' — Politico
- Judge Blocks Trump Officials From Freezing Billions in Social Services Funds — New York Times
- Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota — New York Times
- 'Brace for Impact': Trump Turns Fraud Into New Weapon Against Blue States — Politico
- Minnesota and the Twin Cities Sue the Federal Government to Stop the Immigration Crackdown — Associated Press
- E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution — New York Times
- Trump 'Inclined' to Keep ExxonMobil Out of Venezuela After CEO Response at White House Meeting — Associated Press
- Young Americans Are Increasingly Rejecting the Democratic and Republican Parties, a New Poll Shows — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- Trump's Investigation of Powell Is Also a Warning to the Next Fed Chair — Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal
- Why the Federal Reserve Has Historically Been Independent of the White House — Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
- 'A Bone-Headed Move': Trump's Shocking Battle With Powell Could Badly Backfire — Matt Egan, CNN
- Trump's Attack on Powell Backfires — Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
- The Rare Republican Who Brawls With Trump - and Is Ready for More — Michelle Cottle, New York Times
- Americans Are Right to Be Worried About the Labor Market — Justin Fox, Bloomberg
- The Purged — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
- Banana Republicanism — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic
- Britain Has a Cunning Plan to Cut Its Borrowing Costs — Marcus Ashworth, Bloomberg
- What My Trump-Supporting Friends Won't Say — Mary Ellen Klas, Bloomberg
- Will Trump Push the US and the World to Breaking Point? — Stephen Collinson, CNN