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The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts" of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of this power in the Congress, the Constitution also requires that all ...Read more

President Donald Trump burst out of the gates into his second term with the speed of a Kentucky Derby winner. Executive orders turning the status quo upside have flown in gusts from the Oval Office ever since Mr. Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

Nothing like this has been witnessed since former President Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in...Read more

The fate of President Donald Trump's ambitious economic policy plans will be determined by the people he appoints to critical positions. With a debt of over $36 trillion (heading toward $59 trillion in 2035 by some estimates), inflation not resolved, an entitlement crisis looming and the need to extend the president's 2017 tax cuts, we'd ...Read more

It's impossible to overstate the impact that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are having on American government -- and the public's knowledge about what's really being done with our money.

Nowhere is that more evident than the erupting scandal involving the United States Agency for International Development, ...Read more

The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk's side. More efficient government has been promised often. It's never happened. Instead, government just grew. Sen. Rand Paul showcases stupid government "investments" like the $118,000 ...Read more

This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID managed approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2023; its original mandate, established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, was to spread American influence across the globe ...Read more

If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don't think I will get pushback.

President Donald Trump's move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible -- to streamline a vastly outsized government spending ...Read more

The Great 21st-Century Creative Strategic Thinker (Donald Trump, aka, The Great Disruptor) wants to make rubbled Gaza the Riviera of The Middle East.

That's a fair translation of what President Donald Trump said in a Feb. 4 news conference he held with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu at the other podium.

Fantasy?

If you understand the threat ...Read more

Federal investigators have recovered the black boxes from the passenger jet that crashed into the Potomac River last week. These boxes -- actually orange in color to improve the likelihood they can be found in wreckage -- will help get to the truth behind the worst U.S. aviation disaster since 2001.

But federal officials are hiding the truth ...Read more

The National Center for Education Statistics last week released the results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests taken last year by students in the fourth and eighth grades.

They showed that Catholic schools have continued their winning streak over public schools.

In reading, Catholic-school fourth graders earned an ...Read more

Brian Stelter is back in his CNN comfort zone, penning those punchy sentences about "Trump's history of bullying media companies." It's as if he cannot conceive of the opposing view, as in "the legacy media's history of bullying Donald Trump." They've played rough -- seeking to destroy his political career, bankrupt his businesses and even put ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "We will build a massive missile defense shield to protect us," Donald Trump told a crowd at an Arizona campaign rally in October. "And it's going to be made in the USA, a lot of it right here."

It was a timely proposal given that in 2023, Americans spent more than a week watching a Chinese spy balloon travel from Asia to Alaska...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- President Donald Trump's recent spate of deportations means different things to different people.

For conservatives, the glorious sight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hauling away immigrant workers in handcuffs is evidence of -- in MAGA lingo -- "promises made, promises kept."

Of course, it's likely that some ...Read more

California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water.

After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to "ensure adequate water resources in Southern California." He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The investment firm Ancora is pushing U.S. Steel shareholders to drop the Nippon Steel merger and oust CEO David Burritt, a move that would align with President Donald Trump's insistence that U.S. Steel stay in American hands.

It is unclear from its statement how big a stake in U.S. Steel the Cleveland-based finance company ...Read more

Just how much longer will American parents, their kids, business leaders and the political class tolerate the dreadful performance of our public schools? It's arguably the greatest threat to our nation's economic health and our national security.

The latest Nation's Report Card test scores are dismal and heartbreaking. The crash that started ...Read more