The War Bill Comes Home
Wars are often presented as strategic necessities abroad. Their economic consequences, however, are eventually paid at home. The Trump administration is now asking Congress to...
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: A Tax Cut, a Spending Spree, and a Warning Sign for the Dollar
The U.S. House of Representatives is barreling toward approval of President Donald Trump’s flagship tax and spending plan, a colossal, hastily assembled legislative cocktail that...
The New US Budget Playbook: Tax Cuts, Debt, and Denial
As Congress wrestles with another monumental budget resolution, the Republican Party—historically the self-proclaimed guardians of fiscal responsibility—finds itself in a somewhat awkward silence. The latest...