July 5, 2025
How Trump’s Very MAGA Tax Cuts Break with GOP Tradition
For decades, Republicans have extolled the virtues of removing loopholes and carveouts from the tax code, arguing it would make the system fairer and more efficient, while allowing for lower overall tax rates. “The tax code is littered with hundreds of preferences and subsidies that pick winners and losers and create complexity,” House Republicans led […]
July 5, 2025
Democrats project doom and gloom, not celebration, with July 4 messages
Prominent Democrats sent messages of doom and gloom rather than celebration on July 4, drawing ire from a multitude of critics. Many of the messages included warnings about supposed threats to the country emanating from the Trump administration. ‘This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They […]
July 5, 2025
Xi Jinping’s surprise no-show at BRICS Summit fuels speculation about China’s global standing
Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend this week’s BRICS Summit in Brazil, marking the first time the Chinese leader has missed the gathering of major emerging economies. The abrupt decision has triggered widespread speculation about internal political dynamics within China and the fraying cohesion of BRICS itself. China’s official explanation — a ‘scheduling conflict’ […]
July 5, 2025
The next megabill Congress needs to worry about
Thursday’s historic vote passing President Donald Trump’s megabill ended a monthslong process of negotiation, infighting and compromise. It also started a countdown until Congress has to do it all over again. That’s because the super-sized domestic policy legislation includes a sharp cliff for tax cuts and deep safety-net restrictions — teeing them up to be […]
July 5, 2025
Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it.
President Donald Trump’s megabill with $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement squeaked through Congress after days of promises, arm twisting and implicit threats to wavering members. Now — the clock is ticking to spend the money. The Trump administration has three-and-a-half years to drastically expand the nation’s border enforcement and deportation infrastructure, a massive […]
July 4, 2025
Iran regime escalates repression toward ‘North Korea-style model of isolation and control’
In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, the regime appears to be turning inward — escalating repression with chilling speed. According to Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, the Islamic Republic is accelerating toward what he said is a ‘North Korea-style model of isolation and control.’ […]
July 4, 2025
From spaceports to venture capitalists, tailored tax breaks add billions to megabill
Special tax breaks for venture capitalists, Alaskan fisheries, spaceports, private schools, rum makers and others — together costing tens of billions of dollars — quietly caught a ride on Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy megabill. The legislation is primarily designed to prevent $4 trillion in looming tax increases set to hit at the end of this […]
July 4, 2025
This July 4th, a family waits: American hostage’s father pleads for son’s freedom from Hamas terrorists
The first time I remember celebrating the Fourth of July was during the American bicentennial in 1976. As children living in New York City, my parents woke my sisters and I up early to see the Parade of Tall Ships as it entered the Hudson River. Even as a kid, this magnificent display conveyed to […]
July 4, 2025
In Today’s GOP, There Is No Choice at All
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was always destined to pass, and it’s instructive to realize why: for Republican lawmakers, this was an up-or-down vote on President Donald Trump. The sprawling measure — which at its core was really one big, beautiful tax extender — was never about those tax rates or Medicaid or the deficit. […]
July 4, 2025
President Trump to honor Iran strike flight team at the White House
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Iowa on Thursday night, President Donald Trump announced that the military flight team that launched the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be honored at the White House on Independence Day. Trump said that he took issue with early media reports suggesting that the strikes on Iran only […]
July 4, 2025
North Korea lashes out after Trump DOJ exposes massive IT infiltration scheme
North Korean officials accused the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) of running ‘an absurd smear campaign’ after announcing that it had unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) to fund the regime through remote information technology work for U.S. companies. Earlier this week, the DOJ said North Korean actors were […]
July 4, 2025
Trump takes a megabill victory lap at Iowa rally
President Donald Trump basked in victory Thursday, celebrating the passage of his sweeping domestic policy agenda in a demonstration of his dominance over Republicans in Congress. The president capped what was arguably the most successful week of his second term with a campaign-style speech in Iowa, where he said the megabill would usher in a […]