The rule just issued by OSHA has fewer legal flaws than the initial plan floated by the White House. But it's still problematic, and could set a dangerous precedent if upheld by courts.
Removing the cap on the state and local tax deduction would be a massive tax break for wealthy Americans who choose to live in high-tax states.
Biden will allow 3.3 million metric tons of European-made steel to be imported annually without tariffs. After that, Trump's 25 percent tariffs will remain in force.
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"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.
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Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
End the mask mandates now.
"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
The Trump-era border measure relegated 70,000 migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited immigration court dates.
Title 42 expulsions are a cruel and indiscriminate pandemic mitigation measure.
But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
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Omarova's starry-eyed view of the Soviet Union and interest in giving far more power to the Federal Reserve should not inspire confidence.
The trade deficit is now the widest on record too.
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai stresses the need for American competitiveness at the same time that the White House is pushing huge tax increases on U.S. businesses. And that's just the start.
President Joe Biden apparently thinks it's wrong for corporations to locate their headquarters in low-tax places like Bermuda, Ireland, and Switzerland. Did he learn nothing from living in Delaware?
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Repealing the cap on the SALT deduction would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households in America.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
There’s no clean way this applies to the pandemic.
But spending more would be a bigger mistake. Sometimes, there simply isn't a government solution to a problem.
If the government is going to approve them for everyone eventually, why wait?
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A new study shows that former President Donald Trump's tariffs did little to push American companies out of China.
A new Government Accountability Office report offers a useful lesson about the often unseen, human costs of making forms more difficult to fill out.
It did recommend authorizing boosters for those over age 65
The plan would reduce supply while increasing demand, resulting in harmful shortages.
Clemency for nonviolent offenders would still send white-collar and other offenders back to prison after they've started putting their lives together again.
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The president says the IRS needs just two bits of information: all the money that goes into your bank account, and all the money that comes out.
Biden's plan will raise taxes on individuals earning as little as $30,000 annually by 2027, but that's just a trick to make the overall cost of the bill look lower than it really is.
Biden's American Families Plan would put most working-age American households on the dole.
"I'm not the only person that's been in a situation like this before," says Alyssa Reid, a former employee of James Madison University.
A new analysis projects that private capital, wages, and America's GDP will fall over the next three decades if Congress passes the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. But at least government debt will grow!
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The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way.
Exploring the legal issues raised by another of the Biden Administration's newly announced COVID policies.
Why legal challenges to the new rule are more likely to focus on the details than on broad challenges to OSHA's authority.
The U.S. did not leave behind a safe and stable situation, but it was never capable of creating one.
Emergency OSHA rules are frequently struck down by courts.
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COVID-19 and 9/11 both created opportunities to restrict our liberties in the name of keeping us safe.
"That's not the role of the federal government." What happened?
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