House Republicans are hoping to affirm that they are on the same page as Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday night.…
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Trump NIH appointee defends president’s research funding cuts, lays out new vision for future
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, spent much of his confirmation hearing Wednesday defending the president’s decision…
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Leaders from both Greenland and Panama issued messages Wednesday fervently rejecting the comments made by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress in which he again reiterated his ambitions…
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Jeffrey Miron A major controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic revolved around vaccine mandates, imposed by both governments and private entities, such as employers. Much of the debate failed to distinguish…
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New Section 232 Investigation on Timber and Lumber Will Raise Prices for Homebuilders … and More Legal Questions
Scott Lincicome On March 1, President Trump instructed the Secretary of Commerce to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on the effects of imported…
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Dueling Al Green censure efforts stir frustrations within GOP as Republicans demand consequences
Competing resolutions to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, are causing some division within the House GOP on Wednesday. The Texas Democrat was thrown out of President Donald Trump’s address to…
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The Trump administration’s Treasury Department is in the midst of weighing a ‘wide range’ of possibilities to streamline the Internal Revenue Service amid reports up to half of the IRS…
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Federal Judge Beryl Howell is considering whether President Donald Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal. This case is similar to those of Merit Systems…
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Conservative justices ‘stunned’ by Supreme Court’s USAID decision, lambaste majority in scathing dissent
Four conservative Supreme Court justices penned a blistering dissent Wednesday after the court majority rejected the Trump administration’s request to continue a temporary freeze on foreign aid payments. Justice Samuel…
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Jai Kedia There is no shortage of strange economic proposals in our current political landscape from both the left and the right. You can add changing gross domestic product (GDP)…