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Fiscal News Roundup
- House GOP Speeds Toward Showdown — The Hill
- Trump Plans to Rally House Republicans Divided on Tax Cut Bill — Bloomberg
- House GOP Leaders Want Trump to Dissuade Hard-Liners on Deeper Medicaid Cuts — Politico
- Republicans Tweak Megabill's SNAP, Medicaid Provisions — Politico
- Concerns Rise Over Medical Coverage Losses From 'Big, Beautiful Bill' — The Hill
- Senate Republicans Want to Break Up House's Trump Bill Into Bite-Size Pieces — The Hill
- Trump Warns Walmart: Don't Raise Prices Due to My Tariffs but Do Eat the Costs From Those Taxes — Associated Press
- Trump's Tariffs May Mean Walmart Shoppers Pay More, His Treasury Chief Acknowledges — Associated Press
- Scott Bessent Says Tariff Rates Will Return to 'Reciprocal' Levels if Countries Don't Reach Trade Deals With US — CNN
- Trump Economic Adviser on Debt Downgrade: 'Moody's Can Do What It Wants to' — The Hill
- Ray Dalio Says the Risk to U.S. Treasurys Is Even Greater Than What Moody's Is Saying — CNBC
- Trump's DOJ Accuses Medicare Advantage Insurers of Paying 'Kickbacks' for Primo Customers — KFF Health News
- After US Cuts Funding, WHO Chief Defends $2.1B Budget Request by Comparing It With Cost of War — Associated Press
- Libraries Are Cutting Back on Staff and Services After Trump's Order to Dismantle Small Agency — Associated Press
- Trump Administration to Pay $5 Million to Family of Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt — CBS News
Views and Analysis
- The Stark Math on the GOP Tax Plan: It Doesn't Cut the Deficit — Richard Rubin, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Press Secretary Flat Out Lies About Effects of Budget Bill — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, New Republic
- The Real Message of the Moody's Downgrade — Neil Irwin, Axios
- Moody's Blues Come for US Sentiment — John Authers, Bloomberg
- Moody's Market Jolt Will Leave Its Mark — Jonathan Levin, Bloomberg
- Jim Millstein Says US Risks 'Fiscal Disaster' If Recession Hits — Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg
- Trump's Massive Import Taxes Haven't Done Much Economic Damage - Yet — Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber and Ann D'Innocenzio, Associated Press
- The Argument's Over: Americans Pay for Tariffs — Ben Berkowitz, Axios
- Midpoint of Trump Tariff Hiatus to Reveal Increasingly Unsettled World — Craig Stirling, Bloomberg
- Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services — Angela Hart, KFF Health New
- Republicans Like Europe - Whether They Know It or Not — Allison Schrager, Bloomberg
- Real State Tax Revenues Decline Amid Growing Fiscal Uncertainty — Lucy Dadayan, Tax Policy Center
Fiscal News Roundup
- House Budget Panel Rejects GOP Megabill Amid Conservative Opposition — Politico
- Conservatives Block Trump's Big Tax Breaks Bill in a Stunning Setback — Associated Press
- The United States Just Lost Its Last Perfect Credit Rating — CNN
- Businesses Made a Big Tax-Cut Request. Republicans Said Yes-and Then Some — Wall Street Journal
- As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives — New York Times
- $40,000 SALT Offer Discussed With Megabill Holdouts — Politico
- US Consumer Sentiment Nears Record Low on Inflation Concerns — Bloomberg
- Price Hikes Are Beginning to Threaten the American Consumer — Bloomberg
- GAO Rejects DOGE Attempt to Land at Congressional Watchdog Agency — Politico
- Trump Puts Wealth Fund on Back Burner as Ambitions Hit Limits — Bloomberg
- Financial Reckoning Hits Universities: Pay Cuts, Layoffs and No Coffee — Wall Street Journal
- Trump Suspends Asylum System, Leaving Immigrants to Face an Uncertain Future — Associated Press
- Need a Gun Silencer? You Might Get a Tax Break — Politico
- Trump Administration Terminates Nearly 600 Voice of America Employees — Politico
- Replacing US Military Support in Europe Would Cost $1T — Politico
Views and Analysis
- G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest — Tony Romm, New York Times
- The Tax Code Gets a MAGA Makeover — Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal
- House's Latest Budget Is a Fiscal Time Bomb — Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg
- Who Would Benefit From the GOP's Tax Bill? HENRYs — Justin Fox, Bloomberg
- Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless — Matt Bruenig, New York Times
- SALT Means Cutting Medicaid to Give Tax Cut to the Rich — Ed Kilgore, New York
- The Pronatalist Party Escalates Its War on Children — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
- Congress Needs to Vote on Qatar's $400 Million 'Gift' — Washington Post Editorial Board
- The Clean Energy Boom That Could Snarl the GOP Megabill — James Bikales, Politico
- House GOP's Approach to the IRA Clean Energy Tax Credits: Five Things to Know — Alex Muresianu, Tax Foundation
- Gavin Newsom's High-Tax Revenue Woes — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board