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Nov 6 2026


Fiscal News Roundup

  • Stephen Miller Replacing Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff as Trump Grows Furious With Midterm Results, Sources Say — CNN
  • Who Is Stephen Miller, Trump's New Chief of Staff — Associated Press
  • Jeffries Calls Miller a 'Dangerous Xenophobe' After Promotion: 'Fire Him Today' — The Hill
  • US Employers Created a Surprising 165,000 New Jobs Last Month as Unemployment Dipped to 4.1% — Associated Press
  • Top Trump Economist Says AI Data Center Slowdown Wouldn't Undercut Growth — Associated Press
  • Some Democrats Don't Want to Wait for January to Block Trump's War in Iran — Politico
  • White House Won't Comment on Where Trump's Many Midterm Promises Stand - Including Those $5K Checks — CNN
  • 'What a Waste': How California's Billionaire Tax Campaign Fell Apart — Politico
  • Schumer Poised to Lead Senate Again After Surviving Democratic Backlash — Washington Post
  • Ukraine Expects to See More Support From US After Midterms — Associated Press
  • Three Justice Department Officials, Including Man Behind Trump's 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe, Resign Since Brutal Midterm Losses — CNN
  • Top RFK Jr. Ally Bashes Trump Admin After Quitting — Politico
  • White House Warns Conservative Groups It Is 'Monitoring' Their Statements — Wall Street Journal
  • Judge Blocks Construction of Trump's Arch Within an Hour of Its Final Approval — CNN

Views and Analysis

  • Americans Voted on the Economy. Here's What's Changed Since Trump Took Office — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post
  • This Is How Democrats Can Make Life More Affordable — Natasha Sarin and Elizabeth Wilkins, New York Times
  • He's the Most Powerful Democrat in Washington. Is He Up to the Job? — Michelle Cottle, New York Times
  • Midterm Returns Show Bad News for Progressive Democrats — Aaron Blake, CNN
  • Elizabeth Warren's Power in New Senate Is a Wall Street Nightmare — Corrie Driebusch and Dylan Tokar, Wall Street Journal
  • Corporations Are Pretending to Reform Themselves — David Dayen, American Prospect
  • California's Wealth Tax Didn't Catch the Blue Wave — Washington Post Editorial Board
  • Could the 'Blue Tsunami' Jolt the US Job Market Back to Life? — Alicia Wallace, CNN
  • New Polls Reveal How Democrats Rode a Blue Wave to Victory — CNN (video)
  • Hegseth's 'Fight, Fight, Fight' Video Pours Fuel on Impeachment Flames — Stephen Collinson, CNN
  • The Tariffs Were a Mistake — Douglas Holtz-Eakin, New York Times
  • The Midterms Blew Open the 2028 Map. Republicans Are Panicking — Aaron Pellish, Lauren Fedor and Lisa Kashinsky, Politico
  • The MAGA Coalition Disintegrates — Matthew Continetti, Wall Street Journal
  • Trump Is the Author of the Ruin — Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

Nov 5 2026


Fiscal News Roundup

  • Trump's First Post-Election Executive Action: Preserving His Oval Office Changes — Politico
  • In Victory, Democrats See Economic Mandate to Cut Costs and Curtail Trump — New York Times
  • Top Democrats Call to Rein in AI Buildout After Midterms Sweep: 'National Data Center Moratorium Now' — CNBC
  • Democrats See New Momentum for Plans to Tax the Rich — Politico
  • House Democrat: 'We're Going to Have One Hell of a Donnybrook Over Ending These Tariffs' — The Hill
  • Senate Conservatives Push to Delay Leadership Election — Politico
  • 'Knives Out' for Hegseth, Other Military Leaders After Iran War Dooms GOP — Washington Post
  • Democrats Are Reviewing a Plan to Investigate Corporate America — Washington Sun
  • Wall Street Girding for US Debt Ceiling Showdown in 2027 — Bloomberg
  • Trump Administration Stops Disclosing Disaster Aid Requests — Politico
  • Trump Administration Moves to Oust Arbitrators as Doctor Payouts Soar — New York Times
  • IRS Unveils Higher Capital Gains Tax Brackets for 2027 — CNBC
  • Fed's Hammack Says Restrictive Rates Needed to Cool Prices — Bloomberg
  • Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated to Improve Rural America's Health — KFF Health News
  • California Voters Poised to Reject First-Ever Billionaire Tax — Bloomberg

Views and Analysis

  • Now Comes the Test for Dems: Household Budget Relief — Courtenay Brown and Neil Irwin, Axios
  • How Democrats Coalesced Around the Economy to Pull Off a Stunning Victory — John McCormick, Sabrina Rodriguez and Ken Thomas, Wall Street Journal
  • Democrats' Victory Was Clear. The Party's Future Is Not — Joey Cappelletti and Steven Sloan, Associated Press
  • Chuck Schumer Was Democrats' Punching Bag. Now He's Riding High — Lindsay Wise and Siobhan Hughes, Wall Street Journal
  • Here's What the Democratic Election Rout Could Mean for the U.S. Economy — Jeff Cox, CNBC
  • What a Democratic Congress Means for Federal Tax Policy in 2027 — Andrew Lautz and Garrett Watson, Tax Foundation
  • US Trade Policy Unlikely to Shift Despite Midterm Defeat — Prashant Rao, Semafor
  • Key Pentagon Priorities in Peril After Democratic Sweep — Colin Demarest and Thomas Novelly, Axios
  • The Midterms Delivered a Warning to the Democrats, Too — Victoria Guida, Politico
  • Bernie Sanders Lost the Fight in 2016. A Decade Later, He Won the War — Will Steakin, Politico
  • Trump's Economic Agenda Wasn't Republican Enough — Michael Strain, Financial Times
  • Democrats' Big Challenge on Health Care Costs — Caitlin Owens, Axios
  • Democrats' Election Rout Is Poised to Dramatically Reorder Federal Health Policy — Stephanie Armour and Amanda Seitz, KFF Health News
  • 5 Healthcare Fights Democrats Could Take On After Midterms Sweep — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News
  • How the Federal Reserve Emerged as a Winner From the US Election — Cecile Daurat, Bloomberg
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