An inspector general report found poor staff training led to children languishing for weeks in an emergency tent shelter inside an Army base in Texas last year.
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According to a new report for the Congressional Budget Office, student loan debt forgiveness will likely completely wipe out gains made by the Inflation Reduction Act—and then some.
"This isn't how laws are supposed to be made," says Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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So much for the idea that low interest rates meant the government could borrow endlessly with no consequences.
But Biden can't forgive billions of dollars in student loans if the COVID-19 national emergency is over.
The White House is giving $1.5 billion in INFRA grants to entities that either don't approve new housing or are actively opposed to making it easier to build.
If the pandemic is over, then how is the supposed emergency move justified?
The narrowly averted strike would have been an economic catastrophe. The story of how we reached the brink of that disaster is an illustrative one.
Under the new regulations, Title IX investigators can deny students access to the evidence against them.
A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."
James Taylor croons while the stock market burns after another ugly report on inflation.
Behind the scenes, federal officials pressure social media platforms to suppress disfavored speech.
Even as gas prices continued to tumble, rising prices for food and housing pushed inflation higher in August and proved that prices aren't cooling off yet.
During his own inflation crisis, President Ford called on the American public to do their part through personal fiscal discipline.
The current president becomes what he criticizes by delegitimizing opposition.
Who does he think ultimately pays those taxes?
Noted environmental law scholar Richard Revesz will be nominated to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
U.S. counterterrorism action in Somalia hasn’t been approved by Congress, but it rages on anyway.
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New poll shows majority of Americans oppose student loan forgiveness once they become aware of the obvious tradeoffs involved, like higher inflation and rising tuition prices.
The Insular Cases “rest on a rotten foundation,” Gorsuch wrote.
When taxing authorities get more resources and power, they will find ways to make everyone pay more.
The administration is creating a system where everyone involved in higher education has an incentive to fleece the American people.
The proper response to one failed bailout is not another bailout of a different group.
Many college graduates who made strategic choices to avoid taking on debt are now wondering if those sacrifices have put them ahead after all.
Tariffs are a regressive tax that have driven inflation higher and harm poorer families the most.
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Biden's debt forgiveness will do absolutely nothing to change the incentive system that created this doom spiral in the first place.
Biden's plan to forgive nearly $300 billion in student loan debt will disproportionately help affluent Americans.
"Student loan relief would lead some people to spend more," warns Obama economic advisor and Harvard economist Jason Furman
Unsurprisingly, wealthier Americans will be the prime beneficiaries of the White House's soon-to-be-announced student loan forgiveness scheme.
Little, if any, of the $2.2 billion in RAISE grants have gone to jurisdictions proactively deregulating housing construction.
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America gets about 42 megawatts of power from offshore wind. Another 18,000 megawatts are currently tied up in permitting battles.
But it will raise taxes and sic thousands of new IRS agents on American households.
Biden brought an unwinnable war to an end. But the lessons learned are only as valuable as the U.S. government’s willingness to put them to good use.
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One year after the U.S. withdrawal, tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted American forces are still stuck under Taliban rule.
It also spends billions on new green energy programs, and it lets the IRS hire 87,000 new agents.
Media "fact-checkers" are taking administration promises at face value and using them to bludgeon Republicans.
Brayton Point was a coal-fired plant that tried to clean up its act. Protesters and politicians demanded its closure. A new offshore wind project won't be sufficient to replace it.
So why do Democrats keep equivocating on the point that households making under $400,000 may be targeted for more audits by an expanded IRS?
Prices for food and housing continued to rise but were offset by lower gas and energy prices.
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Congress has added $2.4 trillion to the long-term deficit since President Joe Biden took office. Now they want credit for reducing the deficit by $300 billion?
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