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IN-DEPTH: State Auditors Say ESG Agenda Has Forced Them to Push Back

Louisiana State Treasurer: 'I didn't bring a fight to anybody, but corporate America has engaged us in a way that we have to push back on behalf of taxpayers.'
The Trump White House

Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting on Opportunity Zones

Cabinet Room 1:06 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Okay.  Thank you very much.  We’re here talking about Opportunity Zones and other things having to do with economic...
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Building

IRS Ends Most Unannounced Agent Visits to Taxpayers’ Homes

IRS has announced a major yet “common-sense” policy change that will end most unannounced agent visits to taxpayers’ homes, mostly because of security concerns.

High tax states will keep losing citizens until they cut taxes: Grover Norquist

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist discusses the flight of many Americans from high tax states to low tax states and the potential...
Social Security Money

Social Security Will No Longer Withhold 100 Percent of Monthly Benefits to Recover Overpayments

Lawmakers have criticized the 100 percent withholding policy as being a burden to vulnerable Americans dependent on their benefits.
Americans for Tax Reform

Taxpayer Protection Pledge

"It is obvious, now in its 29th year, the vow crafted by ATR President Grover Norquist is not only an important part of Republican...

SEC Boss Says AI-Triggered Financial Crisis ‘Nearly Unavoidable’ Without Regulation

Without regulations in place, the boss of the SEC expects a financial crisis stemming from the widespread use of artificial intelligence in the next decade.
Obama on Air Force One

The Sequester Scare Stories Keep Coming, and the President Keeps Flying

Morning Jolt . . . with Jim Geraghty From National Review ~ President Obama is off to Connecticut today, doing an event at "the...

This is the labor market of a lifetime: White House economist

Tomas Philipson of the White House Council of Economic Advisers provides insight into the January 2020 jobs report and the Trump administration’s economic plans....

Biden, McCarthy Meeting Offers Hope of Deal on Debt Ceiling

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet on May 22 for in-person talks on resolving the debt ceiling crisis.

Treasury Just Dropped a Financial Bomb, but Bidenomics Means the Worst Is Yet To...

The deficit for fiscal year 2023 was $1.7 trillion and Bidenomics means the worst is yet to come, and multi-trillion-dollar deficits are the new normal.
MarketWatch

Correcting the Media on Obama’s Spending Record… Again

In a recent analysis on Market Watch, Rex Nutting says Americans who think there has been a large increase of federal spending under Obama’s watch are wrong.