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July 18th, 2025
Social Security’s Dirty Little Secret
The Social Security trust fund is not a real asset but a paper entry of IOUs that the government must borrow to cover, meaning that the fund’s current surplus is just a mirage and the future …
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July 18th, 2025
Rescission Package and Cutting Spending
Senate passage of the $9 billion rescissions packagecompiled by the Trump administration marks the first reduction in federal spending since the Tea Party era.
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July 17th, 2025
PBS and Elmo
Exploring the intersection of PBS, politics, and education in the context of Trump’s influence.
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July 17th, 2025
Big Green
Explore how environmental groups amass wealth while hindering progress and the truth behind their funding.
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July 16th, 2025
Making Tariffs Ugly Again
By: Kyle Moran – spectator.org – April 9, 2025 Following one of the steepest market sell-offs in history due to his recently imposed worldwide tariffs, President Donald Trump today made the decision toreverse course and lowered them to 10 percent on all countries aside from China. At time of writing, this contributed to the largest single-day gain in the Nasdaq...
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July 10th, 2025
Budget Victory and the Economy
Explore the biggest conservative victory in 30 years with significant policy changes.
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July 9th, 2025
Mega-bill and Mass Deportation
The new law dramatically increases funding for Trump’s immigration crackdown, making ICE the largest federal law-enforcement agency.
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July 7th, 2025
No One is ‘Gutting’ the Social Safety Net
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 4, 2025 The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election. Democrats and some Republicans have offered cynical distortions that pregnant women in poverty and disabled children will suffer. But Republicans are trying to address the program’s enormous ObamaCare expansion to prime-age...
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July 1st, 2025
The 1,000 Page Senate Bill
Senate Republicans on Tuesday jammed through a major package advancing President Trump’s tax priorities, paid for by a host of cuts to the social safety net, including Medicaid and food assistance.…
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June 30th, 2025
Budget Baseline Con
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 30, 2025 The tax cuts don’t add $3.3 trillion to deficits under current tax policy. The Senate on Monday began its “vote-a-rama” on amendments to the tax bill, and it was scheduled to go deep in the night. But before we see the final product, it’s worth rehearsing one more time one...
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