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Fiscal News Roundup
- House GOP Unveils Billions for Defense and Border Programs in First Piece of Trump Agenda — CNN
- Republicans Unveil Bill to Lift Defense by $150B — Inside Defense
- July 4 Is the GOP's New Target for Megabill, Bessent Says — Politico
- Debt Cliff Is 'Hard Deadline' for GOP Megabill, Thune Says — Politico
- Treasury Secretary Bessent Says It's Up to China to De-Escalate Trade Tensions — CNBC
- Trump Floats Income Tax Cut to Ease Tariff Impact — The Hill
- House Republicans Still Debating How to Pull Back on Medicaid Expansion — Politico
- Poll: Trump's Approval at 100 Days Lower Than Any President in at Least Seven Decades — CNN
- Trump's 'Buoyant' Trade Warrior Flexes His Power Over Global Business — New York Times
- Former Trump Economic Adviser: Tariffs Are 'Highly Regressive,' Will Impact Lower Class — The Hill
- Federal Workers in Charge of Trump Terminations Also Firing Themselves — New Republic
- Tariffs on Chinese-Made Machinery Drive Up Costs for U.S. Manufacturers — Washington Post
- Trump Lashes Out Against "Fake Polls" as His Approval Ratings Sink — Axios
- US Navy Loses $60 Million Jet at Sea After It Fell Overboard From Aircraft Carrier —
Views and Analysis
- Why Trump's Economic Disruption Will Be Hard to Reverse — Patricia Cohen, New York Times
- How to Trash an Economic Superpower in 100 Days — Allison Morrow, CNN
- Trump's 100 Days of Economic Damage — Harry J. Holzer, The Hill
- Trump Is Softening His Tariff Talk. But the Damage May Already Be Done — David L. Lynch and Jeff Stein, Washington Post
- I'm a Conservative Economist. Here Are 6 Reasons Trump's Plans Won't Work — Jessica Riedl, Politico
- Trump Says He'll Eliminate Income Taxes. There's a Problem With That — David Goldman and Matt Egan, CNN
- The US Is Already Losing the New Cold War to China — Hal Brands, Bloomberg
- Trump Is Laying a Potentially Deadly Trap for the U.S. Auto Industry — Brian Deese, New York Times
- Trump's Agenda Is Still Undecided — David Dayen, American Prospect
- White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy — David Singer, New York Times
- Dollar Collapse: The Crisis Is No Longer Just Theoretical — Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill
- The High Cost of the Fed's Mission Creep — Kevin Warsh, Wall Street Journal
- The Student Loan Bubble Is About to Pop — Preston Cooper, Washington Post
- The 'Generation Trump' Thesis Is Looking a Lot Shakier — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times
- Raising the Top Income Tax Rate Would Offset Economic Benefits of TCJA Individual Permanence — Garrett Watson, Tax Foundation
- Trump Is Crippling the Tax Police — Matthew Yglesias, Slow Boring
- 'I Run the Country and the World' — Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, The Atlantic
Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump Claims '200' Tariff Deals, Phone Call with Chinese President Xi in Wide-Ranging Interview — – ABC News
- Trump Claims He’s Negotiating With China on Trade. China Says Otherwise — – New York Times
- China Trolls Trump Over Tariffs as Both Sides Seek Ways to Limit Their Impact — – NBC News
- Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs — – New York Times
- Talk of Raising Taxes on Millionaires Swirls as Republicans Draft Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ — – Associated Press
- ‘Won’t Have Anywhere to Hide’: Democrats Are Eager to Pick Apart the GOP Megabill — – Politico
- Consumer Expectations Crater to Three-Decade Low Amid Trump Tariff Chaos — – Politico
- Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Disapprove of Trump Tariffs, with Inflation a Broad Concern: Poll — – ABC News
- Product Shortages and Empty Store Shelves Loom With Falling Shipments From China — – NBC News
- Economists Say Trade War Makes US Recession Almost a Coin Flip — – Bloomberg
- Judge Blocks Trump Administration from Nixing Collective Bargaining for Most Federal Employees — – Associated Press
- ‘A Gut Punch’: Trump Admin Cuts Wipe Out Firefighter Health and Safety Programs — – Politico
- Pregnant and Cut by DOGE, Aid Workers Beg Trump Administration for Compassion — – Washington Post
- Almost 4 in 10 Say Neither Party Fights for People Like Them: Survey — – The Hill
- Pharma Tariffs Would Raise U.S. Drug Costs by $51 Billion Annually, Report Finds — – NBC News
- Intel to Cut Jobs and Spending After Award of $7.9 Billion in Federal Grants — – Washington Post
- DOGE Orders Major Cut to AmeriCorps Funding, Imperiling Agency’s Work — – Washington Post
- FBI Arrests Milwaukee Judge, Alleging She Interfered in Immigration Operation — – NBC News
- Inside Trump’s First 100 Days — – Time
Views and Analysis
- Trump Keeps Contradicting Himself on Tariffs, Making a Fragile World Economy Nervous — – Josh Boak, Associated Press
- Why Trump’s Call for the Fed to Cut Interest Rates May Not Help Consumers — – Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
- Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His ‘100 Days’ Interview With TIME — – Leslie Dickstein and Simmone Shah, Time
- 5 Takeaways From Trump’s Wide-Ranging Time Interview — – Julia Mueller, The Hill
- Five Takeaways From the Times/Siena Poll — – Shane Goldmacher, New York Times
- I Guess Elon Musk Doesn’t Remember Econ 101 — – Gautam Mukunda, Bloomberg
- Trump Is Destroying 100 Years of Competitive Advantage in 100 Days — – Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
- Why Tackling America’s ‘Twin Deficit’ Now Is Essential — – Nicholas Sargen, The Hill
- America, Our Long Inflation Nightmare Is Over — for Now — – Kathryn Anne Edwards, Bloomberg
- Where's Mike Tyson With Advice When You Need Him? — – John Authers, Bloomberg
- Trump Could Seal His Peace Deal with a $50B Arms Sale to Ukraine — – Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
- Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done — – Michael Tomasky, New Republic
- Trump’s Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Risk the Lives of American Patients — – Marc L. Busch, The Hill
- RFK Jr.’s Absurd Statistic on the Spike in Chronic Diseases in the US — – Glenn Kessler, Washington Post