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Republican House Makes Trump Tax Cuts Permanent

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia President Donald Trump’s tax cuts are set for permanent extension after the House narrowly passed a $5.8 trillion over ten years concurrent budget resolution that seemed poised to fail. If the Trump tax cuts expire, as they are set to do at the end of this year, the average taxpayer

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Remember Who Caved While Trump Was Saving America

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia It may be apocryphal, but Napoleon is rumored to have once said that men over 40 can’t be trusted in revolutionary times, because they simply do not understand the times. We saw something like that play out over the last week, as President Trump took on the epoch-defining work of

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House Passes Bill Limiting District Court Judges From Pausing Executive Actions

Credit: Martin Falbisoner via Wikimedia Commons Legislation banning federal district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions passed the U.S. House Wednesday evening in an effort to address what Republicans call judicial overreach.  Multiple district judges have recently slapped universal injunctions on Trump’s rapid-fire government reforms in response to lawsuits filed in district courts. The nationwide edicts have raised

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How Do These People Still Have Jobs?

Credit: Tulane Public Relations via Wikimedia Commons I have a confession to make. I’m pissed. It’s not that I can’t take criticism of President Trump, whom I strongly support. It’s that the attacks invariably come from people who just spent four years propping up what amounts to a literal Manchurian Candidate. How else do you

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Democrats Are the Seinfeld of Politics: They Are a Party About Nothing

Credit: Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons For decades, Democrats have been telling us that the climate apocalypse was just around the corner. If we didn’t adopt renewable fuels and energy sources immediately, we would all bake to death from global warming. Democrats didn’t care about the jobs or economic growth they would destroy to appease their climate gods. “Learn

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Continue Venezuelan Deportations

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a lower federal court doesn’t have jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed to prevent deportations of violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members illegally in the U.S. The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in a case challenging the

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Israel Eliminating Trade Barriers with US; US to Meet with Iran

Credit: Screenshot via Art Candee X After meeting to discuss a number of issues at the White House Monday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump said that Israel would be eliminating trade barriers with the U.S. and that the U.S. has an important meeting planned with Iran for Saturday. “We will

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What Trump’s Tariffs Mean for YOU

Credit: Kaboompics.com Tony Kinnett interviews expert public finance economist EJ Antoni to understand the different uses and impacts from tariff policy as the Trump administration targets trade deficits with this economic tool. Antoni is a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Tony Kinnett: What are

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CA Fails Audit of Federal Programs, 66% of COVID Unemployment Benefits in Question

Credit: Office of the Governor of California via Wikimedia Commons California did not materially comply with the requirements for seven of the 22 federal programs the state auditor examined, including “pervasive” noncompliance in its unemployment benefits program, which could put essential federal funding at risk. “This report concludes that the State did not materially comply

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Nevada Rule Bans Biological Males From Playing in Girls’ Sports

Credit: UPV/EHU. Press. via Wikimedia Commons Biological males can’t compete in girls’ sports under a new rule announced this week by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. NIAA’s rule says male student athletes can only compete in NIAA-sanctioned sports designated for boys or coeds. The NIAA, which oversees sports at secondary schools in Nevada, said the

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