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Fiscal News Roundup
- Head of IRS Is Ousted Amid Treasury's Power Struggle With Elon Musk — New York Times
- Van Hollen Says White House Paid El Salvador $15 Million to Detain Prisoners — Washington Post
- Trump Revamps "Schedule F," Making It Easier to Cut Federal Workers — Axios
- Trump Studying If Removing Powell Is Option, Hassett Says — Bloomberg
- Trump Wants Powell Out of the Fed. Waiting in the Wings is Kevin Warsh — CNN
- Risk of Financial Panic Tempers Trump on Firing Powell — New York Times
- Immigrants Prove They Are Alive, Forcing Social Security to Undo Death Label — Washinton Post
- Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Obamacare Rule on Free Preventive Care — NBC News
- DOGE Begins to Freeze Health-Care Payments for Extra Review — Washington Post
- Ford Halts Shipments of F-150s and Other Models to China — Wall Street Journal
- Judge Pauses Mass Firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as She Considers Whether Layoffs Violated Court Order — CNN
- Agencies Will Still See Strict Limits on Recruitment Once Hiring Freeze Expires in July — Federal News Network
- Trump Shifted on Tariffs After Bond Holders Got Jittery. He Held Millions Himself — New York Times
- As International Tourists Pull Back on US Travel and Purchases, $90 Billion in Lost Revenue Looms — NBC News
- Trump Moves You Might Have Missed This Week — Axios
- White House Embraces Lab Leak as 'True' Pandemic Origin, Axes Covid Website — Washington Post
Views and Analysis
- As Tariffs Darken the Economic Outlook, Trump Sizes Up Powell as a Scapegoat — Stephen Collinson, CNN
- An Even Dumber Idea Than Tariffs — Joseph C. Sternberg, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Revives a 1930s Mistake That Hurt More Than It Helped — Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
- Trump Is Flirting With Economic Disaster — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
- Trump Wants His Tariffs to Reset the World. He Might Get His Wish — Luciana Lopez, CNN
- With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the IRS to His Will — Andrew Duehren, Alan Rappeport and Russ Buettner, New York Times
- If You Care About Your Savings, Pay Attention to Trump's Attack on The Fed — Chris Hughes, New York Times
- Federal Judge Halts CFPB Purge Again — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Trump's New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs — Edith Olmsted, New Republic
- Did Anyone Really Think Kennedy Would Soften His Hostility to Vaccines? — Benjamin Mazer, New York Times
- Trump Is Wrapping Up 100 Days of Historic Failure — Dana Milbank, Washington Post
- What's Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal — David Brooks, New York Times
Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump Blasts Fed Chair Powell and Looks Forward to His 'Termination' — Washington Post
- Trump Claims Powell Will Resign if Asked Despite Past Refusal to Step Down — Axios
- Bessent Privately Urges Caution as Trump Attacks Powell — Politico
- Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell — Wall Street Journal
- Trade War to Weaken Global Growth and Increase Inflation, I.M.F. Warns — New York Times
- Trump Promises a Trade Deal With Europe — Politico
- Why the SALT Deduction Is Key to Trump's Tax Bill — Bloomberg
- Congress Is Prioritizing a Tax Break That Few Americans Will Claim — Bloomberg
- US Property Tax Rise Slowed, but More Counties Topped $10,000 — Bloomberg
- Internal Budget Document Reveals Extent of Trump's Proposed Health Cuts — Washington Post
- White House Plan Would Eliminate Head Start, Make Sweeping Health Cuts — Axios
- White House Eyes Overhaul of Federal Housing Aid to the Poor — New York Times
- Trump Administration Asks IRS to Revoke Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status — Washington Post
- Summers: 'Any Self-Respecting Treasury Secretary Would Resign' Over Trump Harvard IRS Directive — The Hill
- Tax Collections Lift Treasury's Cash Pile by Most Since 2022 — Bloomberg
- Trump Floats Wider IRS Tax Exemption Crackdown — The Hill
- Democrats Seek Probe of DOGE's Social Security Meddling — Axios
- Republicans Consider Increasing Taxes on the Rich in Break From Party Orthodoxy — The Hill
- Trump's Millionaire Tax Would Hit CEOs, Wall Street Bankers While Billionaires Slide — Bloomberg
- US Mideast Allies Face 'Worst-Case Scenario' With Trump Aid Cuts and Tariff Whiplash — Politico
Views and Analysis
- Can Trump Remove Powell as Fed Chair Before His Term Ends? — Shannon Najmabadi, Washington Post
- Powell Shows Why Fed Independence Matters in a Turbulent America — Jonathan Levin, Bloomberg
- The Lesson of Trump vs. Powell — Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Tariff Pauses and Exemptions Prove the Need to Rethink — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Trump's Tariffs Will Likely Lead to Stagnation, Not a Depression — Alexander William Salter, The Hill
- What Is Tax-Exempt Status and Can the I.R.S. Revoke It From Harvard? — Matthew Mpoke Bigg and John Yoon, New York Times
- The Dollar's Monopoly in Payments Will Soon Be History — Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg
- Trump's Order to Cut Drug Prices Would Raise Drug Prices — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Medicaid Cuts Jeopardize the Right to Age at Home — Geoff Gross, The Hill
- DOGE's Ban on WFH Will Reduce Government Efficiency — Claudia Sahm, Bloomberg
- Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers — Daniel Boguslaw, American Prospect
- America Gets Trump Fatigue — Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- The King We Overthrew - and the King Some Now Want — Philip Bump
- The Emergency Is Here — Ezra Klein, New York Times (podcast)