The House-passed “big, beautiful” tax bill is a tremendous achievement and a giant sparkplug for growth. The bill extends all the Trump tax cuts of 2017, thus heading off a $4 trillion tax INCREASE next year. It expands health savings accounts, includes expensing of major capital and research expenditures by businesses,...
Yesterday I wrote about an effort by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, to pressure President Trump to seek authorization from congress before deciding on any strike against Iran. Rep. Massie’s effort was immediately joined by a group of Democrats including most of the Squad (AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar and Greg...
The Trump administration effort to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting took another step today when President Trump asked congress to get involved in pulling back funds that have already been appropriated. President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions,...
What happened to the DOGE cuts? It took four months and a scolding from Ron DeSantis yesterday, but it finally looks like the process may get underway. According to Politico, the first rescission request will get sent next week, but only for a small sampling of the DOGE targets: The planned transmission of the “rescissions”...
Uefa accused Gianni Infantino of prioritising “private political interests” after Fifa’s president turned up late for the world governing body’s own congress in Paraguay. Infantino has been on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East alongside United States President Donald Trump and arrived two hours and 17 minutes past the scheduled 10:30 start time (14:30...
Carla Hayden is the first woman and first African American to lead the largest national library in the world. U.S. President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage Thursday by abruptly firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with a two-sentence email sent by the White House’s deputy director of presidential personnel. According to her bio, Hayden was...
Way back in 2016 and the waning days of his second term, President Barack Obama nominated an old friend to fill the post of Congressional Librarian. Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Carla D. Hayden as Librarian of Congress. President Obama said, “Michelle and I have known Dr. Carla Hayden for a long...
Not only is Trump a major crypto dealer — he is also the industry’s top policy maker, The New York Times noted. A progressive watchdog organization on Wednesday urged key congressional committees to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump’s involvement in a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency deal that the group warned could open the door to corrupt and...
I am a big fan of DOGE, and even approve of cutting government with a meat axe instead of a scalpel. A decade or two ago, I would have preferred “reform” and a zero-based budget–the idea being that responsible representatives in Congress and the Executive Branch would do their jobs and separate the wheat from...
A bipartisan bill to put a congressional “check” on Trump’s tariff powers faces steep odds of passage. A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and want Congress to take action to limit current and future tariffs. The poll comes as bipartisan support grows for a bill...
Member of our Party’s Executive and Political Committees, Comrade Liz Payne, is attending the 5th Special National Congress of our sister party, the South African Communist Party this week. Here is her fraternal greeting address to the Congress: “Dear Comrades, Greetings to the South African Communist Party on the occasion of your 5th Special...