The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs in a series of executive orders earlier […]

We are now in the longest government shutdown in US history, at 36 days.

Senate Democrats feel confident after Tuesday’s election that they have the advantage over Republicans in the government shutdown battle and are pointing to President Trump’s statement that Republi…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 29, 2025 Powell hints at no rate cut in December, but why cut this week? Yet inflation remains above the Fed’s official 2% target even excluding tariffs. When the Fed chief says inflation would be 2.3%-2.4% without tariffs rather than 2.8% (according to the Fed’s core personal-consumption-expenditure measure), Mr. Powell is admitting...

The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 2025 His changes will be difficult to reverse. It’s axiomatic in Washington, D.C., that changes that are undertaken by administrative action alone are easy to reverse. There’s no doubt that if a Democratic president wins next time, he or she will undo much of what Trump has done through executive action, but will he...

A straightforward analysis of the Democrat shutdown and its implications for the government. Source: The Democrat Shutdown for Dummies

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2025 A new poll finds 58 percent of Americans say Trump and the GOP are responsible for the shutdown, while 54 percent say the same about Democrats. Right before the ongoing government shutdown began, I wrote over in that other Washington publication, “Sure, the parties can point to polling indicating that the public...

By: Daniel Huff – wsj.com – October 15, 202 Based on data from past closings, roughly 25% of the federal workforce could be permanently cut. Here’s how it works. When Congress fails to fund the government by Oct. 1, the start of its fiscal year, the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause kicks in: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but...

The partial government “shutdown” is a pure political act. It has nothing to do with the amount of money the government takes from taxpayers, though it does have something to do with how much it irresponsibly spends…