The Congressional Budget Office says the deficit will hit $3.3 trillion this year. The national debt will exceed the size of America's gross domestic product for the first time since the end of World War II.
The Trump administration is pushing the envelope of its executive authority by issuing a new blanket eviction moratorium for all rental properties nationwide.
Multiple significant opinions from the D.C. Circuit on Judge Griffith's last day.
Two years after commuting her life sentence, the president has pardoned Alice Marie Johnson.
A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.
Thanks to a paradoxical Trump bump, nearly 90 percent of both Democrats and Republicans now say they support international trade.
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Republicans have turned away from freedom in many ways during the Trump era, but at least they've embraced school choice at the national level.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
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Postmaster Louis DeJoy told members of Congress that the post office must make changes to survive. Will Congress let it?
Exiled from the Republican Party, some Bush-era Republicans are now backing Joe Biden. Colin Powell endorsed him on Tuesday night.
The Trump administration is spending big money to make sure America's drug supply chains aren't dependent on China. But that's not really necessary.
At least four judges (and one senior judge) believe the standing question is worthy of en banc review. Will the Supreme Court think it's worth certiorari?
Even the Acting Secretary might not actually be an Acting Secretary.
Even as Americans rely on tech more than ever, our early-pandemic truce with the industry is officially over.
America's general election is facing both logistical and political hurdles, creating a feedback loop that threatens to derail the legitimacy of the results.
One month after signing a signature trade deal with Canada (and Mexico), Trump just launched an unnecessary and counterproductive new trade war against America's northern neighbor.
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The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash.
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A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.
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Trump and other White House officials say the feds may soon be coming to other major cities as well.
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Biden says he'll oppose attempts to repeal the Jones Act and will push for tighter "Buy American" policies that hike the price of infrastructure projects.
Abolishing tariffs would have short- and long-term benefits for the economy.
Even if it's true, taxpayers paid $58,000 for each saved job.
The Trump administration might be setting the stage to eject foreign techies who've played by every immigration rule.
Do you appreciate the incompetence, in-fighting, obstructionism, authoritarianism, and waste that you pay for?
The deal will affect more than $1 trillion in annual trade between the U.S. and its two neighbors.
Just days before the new North American trade deal is set to take effect, the Trump administration reminds everyone that it prefers protectionism to free trade.
Donald Trump has rewritten much of U.S. immigration law from the Oval Office, without congressional oversight or public debate.
In a new book, former White House national security advisor John Bolton says Trump's trade deal negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping "commingled the personal and the national."
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That's probably because those goals were always completely unrealistic. Less than six months after the deal was signed, it's already coming apart.
Police brutality brought Americans into the streets. What would military force do?
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Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton is asking the military to commit war crimes against American citizens. Trump approves!
President Donald Trump announced a significant escalation of his administration's conflict with the Chinese government—a conflict that is increasingly looking less like a trade war and more like a cold war.
Sen. Chuck Grassley says it's dead because lawmakers feared upsetting the president.
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