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Fiscal News Roundup
- House Republicans Unveil Blueprint to Extend $4.5 Trillion in Tax Cuts and Lift the Debt Ceiling — Associated Press
- House Budget Blueprint Ready for Close-Up Amid GOP 'Angst' — Roll Call
- Johnson Says He's Not Changing Budget Resolution Ahead of Committee Vote — Politico
- House GOP Budget Plan Targets Deep SNAP Cuts — Politico
- 'Constitutional Duty': House Chairs Make Case for More Committee Operations Funding — Roll Call
- Federal Judge Lifts Pause on Trump's Resignation Plan for Federal Workers — Washington Post
- As DOGE Hammers Away at the US Government, Republicans Stir With Quiet Objections — Associated Press
- First DOGE Committee Hearing Becomes Referendum on Elon Musk — The Hill
- Musk and DOGE See Their Powers Expand While Staff and Remit Stay Shrouded — Bloomberg
- Republicans Love Trump's Spending Cuts. Just Not in Their States — New York Times
- Gabbard Wins Senate Backing as Spy Chief on Vow to Downsize — Bloomberg
- House GOP Approves Bill to Expand Congress's Power to Undo Biden-Era Rules — The Hill
- Top N.I.H. Official Abruptly Resigns as Trump Orders Deep Cuts — New York Times
- US Inflation Heats up to 3% for First Time Since June — CNN
- With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation — New York Times
- Trump Upends US Ukraine Policy and Says He and Putin Have Agreed to Begin Negotiations on Ending War — Associated Press
- White House Says Judges Balking at Trump's Actions Are Provoking a 'Constitutional Crisis' — Associated Press
- Government Watchdogs Fired by Trump Sue His Administration and Ask a Judge to Reinstate Them — Associated Press
- Hegseth Didn't Request Over $137,000 in Upgrades to His New Military Residence, Official Says — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- Energy and Commerce Committee's Medicaid Problem Just Got Tougher — Ben Leonard, Politico
- House Releases Reverse Robin Hood Resolution — David Dayen, American Prospect
- House Reconciliation Instructions Sets Stage for Way Too Much Borrowing — Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Who Pays for Tariffs — June Kim, New York Times
- With Attack on Consumer Bureau, Musk Removes Obstacle to His 'X Money' Vision — Stacy Cowley, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Kate Conger, New York Times
- The Peril in Squeezing U.S. Health Research — Washington Post Editorial Board
- There Are Two Checks on a President's Power. One Is Missing — Philip Bump, New York Times
Fiscal News Roundup
- House Republicans to Move Forward With Budget Plan as Senate Pursues Competing Proposal — CBS News
- House GOP Preps All-in-One Budget Blueprint for Committee Vote — Roll Call
- House GOP Skeptical It Can Advance Trump Agenda by Week's End — The Hill
- Smith Swipes at Arrington's Budget Plan — Politico
- GOP Leaders Downplay Medicaid Cuts as They Seek $2T in Savings — The Hill
- Senate Republicans Think Trump Tacitly Approves of Their Two-Bill Budget Plan — Politico
- House Freedom Caucus Plans to Throw Another Tax Plan into the Mix — Politico
- Democrats Are Divided on Government Shutdown Threats — Politico
- Schumer: Democrats Will Use Spending Bills to Curb Musk — The Hill
- FEMA Official Ignores Judge's Latest Order, Demands Freeze on Grant Funding — NBC News
- CFPB Heads of Supervision and Enforcement Announce Resignations After Stop-Work Order — CNBC
- 4 FEMA Employees Are Fired Over Payments to Reimburse New York City for Hotel Costs for Migrants — Associated Press
- Trump's NIH Challenges the Model That Underlies U.S. Scientific Dominance — Washington Post
- Judge Orders HHS, CDC and FDA to Restore Deleted Webpages With Health Information — CBS News
- DOGE Announces $881 Million in Cuts for Education Department Contracts — Politico
- 'Keep Your Hands Off Our Social Security,' Lawmakers Warn Amid DOGE Budget Cuts — CNBC
- Ford CEO Farley: Lasting 25% Tariff on Canada, Mexico Would 'Blow a Hole' in US Auto Industry — Detroit Free Press
- Anduril to Take Over Microsoft's U.S. Army $22-Billion Headset Program — CNBC
- New York's Business Boosters Push Trump to Keep Manhattan Tolls — Politico
- Obama Best Liked Among Living Presidents; Biden, Least — Gallup
Views and Analysis
- Trump Is Slashing Agencies Long Hated by the GOP. The Next Cuts Might Be Harder — Megan Messerly, Holly Otterbein and Dasha Burns, Politico
- Even Bankers Don't Want to Delete the CFPB — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Trump Wants to Abolish the Education Department. It's a Waste of Time — Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post
- Their Target Is 'the Very Core of Modern American Liberalism' — Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times
- There's No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts — Ian Ward, Politico
- The Shutdown Fight That Could Play Right Into Trump's Hands — Rachael Bade, Politico
- How Trump's Canadian Oil Tariff Would Hit America's Heartland — Rebecca F. Elliott, New York Times
- How Elon Musk's Crusade Against Government Could Benefit Tesla — Kimberly Kindy and Brian Slodysko, Associated Press
- Why This Week's Inflation Report Is Especially Important — Nick Timiraos, Wall Street Journal
- Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong — Eugene Ludwig, Politico