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Fiscal News Roundup
- Vought Defends 'Aggressively' Using Rescissions, Blasts GAO as 'Something That Shouldn't Exist' — Politico
- OMB Director Says Government Accountability Office "Shouldn't Exist" — Axios
- Trump Aides Push a Megabill Rebrand as Some House Republicans Bristle — Politico
- White House Pushes Republicans on 'Big, Beautiful' Tax Cut Bill Rebrand — The Hill
- House GOP Funding Chief Pushes for Stopgap Funding Bill into November — The Hill
- Fiscal 2026 Funding Discussions to Dominate House, Senate Agenda — Roll Call
- Johnson and Jeffries Kick Off Funding Tango With Talk of a Holiday Punt — Politico
- GOP Faces Headwinds on Push for Second Big Tax and Spending Bill — Bloomberg
- House Bill Cuts HHS Budget but Excludes RFK Jr.'s Reorganization, Maintains NIH Funding — STAT+
- Trump Floats Federal Troops to New Orleans, Not Chicago — Politico
- Trump Suggests Trade Deals Would End If Tariffs Are Struck Down — Bloomberg
- Tillis Says He Will Not Consider Lisa Cook Fed Replacement Amid Legal Dispute — Politico
- Electric Vehicle Sales Increase as Federal Tax Credits for Them Come to an End — NPR
- Florida Plans to End Vaccine Mandates Statewide, Including for Schoolchildren — CNN
- Washington, Oregon and California Governors Form a Health Alliance in Rebuke of Trump Administration — Associated Press
- Judge Reverses Trump Administration's Cuts of Billions of Dollars to Harvard University — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- Rebranding Won't Make Trump Megabill Any Less Ugly — Ed Kilgore, New York
- Democrats' Dilemma: Force a Government Shutdown or Cave Again — Ed Kilgore, New York
- Coming Budget Debates and How Congress Should Navigate Them — Dominik Lett, CATO Institute
- If Trump Loses His Tariff Lawsuit, America May Have to Refund Businesses More Than $200 Billion — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN
- Tariff Chaos Reigns and America's Economy Suffers — Bill Dudley, Bloomberg
- Trump's Tariff Losses Are a Moment of Reckoning for the Supreme Court — Matt Ford, New Republic
- How Tariffs Hurt My American Factory — George Matouk Jr., Wall Street Journal
- Save the Federal Reserve's Independence by Splitting the Agency — Michael W. McConnell, Washington Post
- The Hard Data Signals the Fed Should Not Cut Rates — Justin D'Ercole, Financial Times
- Bond Traders Sing the Blues — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear — Sarah Lazare, American Prospect
- Why Does Peace Cost a Trillion Dollars? — Stephen Miles, Responsible Statecraft
- This Is the Moment We Find Out if Trump Is for Real — Oren Cass, New York Times
Fiscal News Roundup
- Jeffries Warns Republicans: Democrats Will Oppose GOP Spending Bill — The Hill
- Schumer Warns of Growing Chance of Government Shutdown — The Hill
- Johnson Says Shutdown Ball Is in Democrats 'Corner' — Politico
- A Shutdown Fight and Epstein Drama Await as Congress Returns to Washington — NBC News
- Murkowski Slams White House Pocket Rescission Proposal — Politico
- Ex-Budget Staffers Weigh In Against Trump 'Pocket Rescissions' — Roll Call
- Blocking Tariffs Would Be "End of the United States," Top Trump Adviser Says — Axios
- Pushback to Trump's Foreign Aid Cuts Is Coming From a Surprising Corner — Politico
- Trump Will Move Space Command From Colorado to Alabama — Politico
- Companies Reap Cash Savings From Trump's New Tax Law — Wall Street Journal
- US Manufacturing Activity Contracted in August for a Sixth Month — Bloomberg
- 1.2 Million Immigrants Are Gone From the US Labor Force Under Trump, Preliminary Data Shows — Associated Press
- Trump's Use of Troops in Los Angeles Was Unlawful, Judge Rules — Wall Street Journal
- Trump on Chicago: 'We're Going in' — Politico
- Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch — Wall Street Journal
- The Turmoil Inside MAHA Is About More Than Just Vaccines — Wall Street Journal
Views and Analysis
- We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American's Health — William Foege at al., New York Times
- We're Restoring Public Trust in the CDC — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Wall Street Journal
- A Federal Appeals Court Ruled Against Trump's Tariffs. Here's What Could Happen Next — CBS News
- The Tariffs Are Still Illegal — Matt Levine, Bloomberg
- What Trump's Tariff Loss in Court Means for Shippers and the Billions in Trade Duties Collected by U.S. Government — Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC
- The Real Significance of the US Court Ruling on Tariffs — Mohamed El-Erian, Financial Times
- US Tariff Uncertainty Delays Economic 'Power' Lutnick Predicted — Brendan Murray, Bloomberg
- Why Economists Now Fear Tariff Rollbacks — Courtenay Brown, Axios
- Stock Trading, Jeffrey Epstein and a Shutdown: Why This Could Be a Tricky Fall for Congress — Meredith Lee Hill, Politico
- Democrats Flinched During the Last Spending Showdown. They Should Do It Again — Rachel Bade, Politico
- No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared — Jed Kolko, Washington Monthly
- This Tracking Protects a $600 Billion Economy. Cutting It Is Foolish — Alexander William Salter, Washington Post
- The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab — Ezra Klein, New York Times (podcast)
- Trump's Fawning Cabinet and the Threat to US Democracy — Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
- There's No More Business as Usual in Washington — David Dayen, American Prospect