The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Expands Health Savings in a Rare Policy Win
In a bill packed with spending, one provision offers real gains for health care choice and savings.
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The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.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.
Paul said he refuses to support "maintaining Biden spending levels," and Musk said the Trump-backed tax bill is "a disgusting abomination."
Complying with export regulations should build trust between Nvidia and Congress, not erode it.
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
Giving the Defense Department even more taxpayer money is a recipe for waste, not security.
Higher debt means lower wages, higher interest rates, and fewer opportunities, says Romina Boccia of the Cato Institute.
The "one big, beautiful bill" keeps the corporate welfare that Republicans claim to hate.
The lesson from the Moody's credit downgrade is that the U.S. cannot borrow its way to prosperity.
That total could double if temporary provisions in the bill become permanent, as is likely to happen.
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Friday's announcement by Moody's and the House Budget Committee vote could have been a turning point.
The Department of Education doesn’t handle teaching, set curricula, or pay teacher salaries.
A new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the national debt will equal nearly 130 percent of GDP by 2034.
Stephen Miller's understanding of the Constitution is dubious for several reasons.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management, Cliff Asness, discusses the decline of market efficiency, the dangers of populist economics, and his libertarian outlook on capitalism.
We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
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