Trump's Tariffs Face a Major 'Major Questions' Problem at the Supreme Court
The same legal theory that tripped up Joe Biden's student loan scheme could also sink Donald Trump's tariffs.
The same legal theory that tripped up Joe Biden's student loan scheme could also sink Donald Trump's tariffs.
The appeals court blocked the removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members under that law "because we find no invasion or predatory incursion."
The federal law relies on a risible reading of the Commerce Clause to restrict a constitutional right.
An antiquated law gives high school and college football first dibs on Fridays and Saturdays.
Seven judges agreed that the president's assertion of unlimited authority to tax imports is illegal and unconstitutional.
Congress holds the power of the purse in our system of government, and further eroding congressional responsibility for spending decisions will not end well.
The president's clear attempt to interfere in the Federal Reserve is not a one-off crisis.
Should they brag about raising taxes, like the White House is doing, or try to distance themselves from those same tax increases?
A recent federal appeals court decision underlines the importance of that safeguard.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate.
The latest escalation in the showdown between the Trump administration and D.C. elected officials
A rushed attempt to regulate artificial intelligence has left lawmakers scrambling to fix their own mistakes.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the national debt, but any wasteful government spending should be eliminated.
The Constitution requires apportionment to be based on a count of all "persons," excluding only "Indians not taxed."
The president is claiming "unbounded authority" to impose import taxes based on a law that does not mention them.
Lawmakers say a new DHS rule requiring advance notice for detention center visits undermines congressional oversight.
An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
Green energy is promising. But subsidies distort the tax code, misallocate capital, and favor companies already in the game.
The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
In a bill packed with spending, one provision offers real gains for health care choice and savings.
More questions arise over how Florida’s newest immigration detention center is being funded by the Trump administration.
The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.
The ban is a bad law. But leaving it on the books and willfully ignoring it sets a potentially more dangerous precedent.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
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Now nearly 100 state AI laws will remain in force—and nearly 1,000 more are already waiting in the wings.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.
Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) discusses the War Powers Resolution he co-sponsored with Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the Israel-Iran conflict, and why the antiestablishment left and right must work together.
Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
The parliamentarian ruled it cannot be enacted as part of a reconciliation bill not subject to the filibuster.
Trump's attack on Iran plainly violates the War Powers Act. Limits on executive power are most important when they are inconvenient.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
But that's not what the law says.
Social Security’s board of trustees expects the program to be insolvent in eight years.
After accounting for the dynamic effects of the Trump-backed tax bill, the CBO concludes it will add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
The budget legislation is full of other expensive provisions that will add trillions to our sky-high national debt.
Subsidies inherently skew the market, and farm subsidies are no different.
Sen. Blackburn introduced a bill this week that would make it a crime to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer.
That total will rise to about $3 trillion once the interest costs of more borrowing are included.
House members who discovered objectionable elements only after voting for the package nevertheless underline the unseemly haste of the legislative process.