News Views
Fiscal News Roundup
- House Passes Trump's Request to Rescind Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding After Epstein Fallout Delays Vote — CBS News
- Congress Rolls Back $9 Billion in Public Media Funding and Foreign Aid — NPR
- Russ Vought Is Making DOGE Dreams Come True — Axios
- Most Think GOP Tax Bill Will Help Wealthy, Harm the Poor: Survey — The Hill
- Hill Republicans Brace for Another Grueling Fight Over Trump's Spending Cuts — Politico
- House Republicans Tiptoe Toward Tariff Criticism — Politico
- Trump Aims Tariff Double Whammy at Industries, Nations by Aug. 1 — Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Pushes for 15%-20% Minimum Tariff on All EU Goods — Financial Times
- ACA Insurers Propose Biggest Premium Hikes Since 2018 as Trump Policies Take Hold — CNN
- White House Official: $2B for Alcatraz Renovations 'Sounds Excessive' — The Hill
- Trump's Latest Executive Order Creates New Classification of Federal Employees — The Hill
- Murray Slows Education Nominee Amid Funding Feud With White House — Politico
- Federal Reserve's Waller Says Central Bank Should Cut Rates at Next Meeting — Associated Press
- US Consumer Sentiment Rises as Inflation Expectations Improve — Bloomberg
- Kansas City Poured Millions Into a Grocery Store. It Still May Close — Washington Post
Views and Analysis
- Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They've Wanted for Decades — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times
- Don't Make a Dumb Trade War Any Dumber — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- America's Misguided Trade Panic Long Predates Trump — Eduardo Porter, Washington Post
- Senate Republicans Just Made a Shutdown Much More Likely — Hayes Brown, MSNBC
- On the Fast Track Toward a Government Shutdown — Joe Perticone, The Bulwark
- Trump Team Sabotaged Fed Renovation as Trump Started War With Powell — Malcolm Ferguson, New Republic
- Republicans' Surprise Gambling Tax Rolls the Dice on Young Men — Erika D. Smith, Bloomberg
- HHS Under Kennedy Might Be Moving to Undercut Lifesaving Preventive Care — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
- The State Department Upheaval Makes China Great Again — Andreas Kluth, Bloomberg
Fiscal News Roundup
- Fight Over Epstein Files Holds Up Trump DOGE Cuts Bill — The Hill
- Trump's Victory Over PBS and NPR 'Bias' Will Be 'Devastating' for Rural Areas, Station Leaders Say — CNN
- GOP Senators Urge Trump Administration to Reverse $6 Billion Education Funding Freeze — ABC News
- White House Aide on Skipping Budget Plan: It 'Wasn't in Our Interest' — Washington Post
- Russ Vought: Appropriations Process 'Has to Be Less Bipartisan' — Politico
- Trump Officials Halt 'Dangerous' Research, Overriding NIH Career Scientists — Washington Post
- Senate GOP Prepares to Move First Funding Package — Politico
- Lawmakers Hope to Modify Crucial Dates in Reconciliation Bill — Roll Call
- Rum, Fisheries and a Sculpture Garden: The Quiet Winners in Trump's Big Bill — New York Times
- GOP Reshapes Opportunity Zones to Target Trump Country — Wall Street Journal
- How Republicans Supersized Silicon Valley's Favorite Tax Break — New York Times
- Businesses Are Passing Along Tariff Costs, Fed Reports — The Hill
- Tariff Risk Nudged More Firms Closer to Default, Moody's Says — Bloomberg
- EPA Moves Ahead With Reorganization, New Buyouts — Politico
- With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project — New York Times
- In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs — New York Times
Views and Analysis
- What the Texas Floods Prove About Fixing FEMA — Washington Post Editorial Board
- If Clinton's Welfare Reform Was Big, Trump's Is Huge — Hayden Dublois, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Tariffs Threaten to Offset Much of the "Big Beautiful Bill" Tax Cuts — Erica York and Alex Durante, Tax Foundation
- Who's Really Paying for Tariffs - Foreign Exporters or U.S. Businesses? — Justin Ho, Marketplace
- Only Two Republicans Voted Against Trump Defunding Sesame Street — Malcolm Ferguson, New Republic
- 'Morally Offensive and Fiscally Reckless': 3 Writers on Trump's Big Gamble — Frank Bruni, Nate Silver and Lis Smith, New York Times
- Why Some Trump Allies Want to Protect the Fed's Independence — Victoria Guida, Politico
- Firing Powell Would Be a Blunder — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Trump's Powell Attacks Show Why Fed Was Designed to Be Independent — Neil Irwin and Courtenay Brown, Axios
- 'Massively Disruptive': Why the Immigration Crackdown Is Growing Unpopular — Eduardo Porter, Ramesh Ponnuru and Natasha Sarin, Washington Post
- The Trump Officials and Nominees Who Could Benefit From the Administration's Approach to Crypto — Arfa Momin, Clara Ence Morse and Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post
- Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz — Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect
- RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica
- New York City Subways Flooded (Again). Blame Trump's Funding Cuts — Kate Aronoff, New Republic