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Fiscal News Roundup
- GOP, Democrats Expect DHS Shutdown After Talks Fizzle — The Hill
- Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump — New York Times
- Trump Promises Schumer Funding for NY Tunnel Project - if Penn Station and Dulles Airport Are Renamed After Him — CNN
- $16 Billion Tunnel Project Winding Down After Trump Funding Freeze — New York Times
- Democrats Erupt Over Trump Push to Rename Dulles, Penn Station — Axios
- Democrats Continue Pressure to Fund Gateway on Day of Deadline — Politico
- TrumpRx Debuts With Several Dozen Discounted Drugs — Politico
- Amazon's Tax Bill Plunges After GOP Tax Cuts — Politico
- White House Excluding Dems From Its Annual Governors Meeting — Politico
- Trump Strikes Deal to Allow $800M in Beef Imports From Argentina to Enter US — The Hill
- Trump's Racist Post About Obamas Is Deleted After Backlash Despite White House Earlier Defending It — Associated Press
- Tim Scott Calls Obamas Video Shared by Trump 'Most Racist Thing I've Seen Out of This White House' — The Hill
- Stocks Hit Historic Milestone as Dow Crosses 50,000 Points for First Time Ever — CNN
Views and Analysis
- Trump's Quest to Name Things After Himself Takes an Even More Desperate Turn — Aaron Blake, CNN
- Trump Says Tariffs Have Created an Economic Miracle. The Facts Tell a Different Story — Paul Wiseman and Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
- President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Raises the Fiscal Gap to 2.4 Percent — Jared Bernstein and Bobby Kogan, Center for American Progress
- How to Tell if You Will Save Money Using TrumpRx — Rebecca Robbins, New York Times
- Trump's Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam — Hafiz Rashid, New Republic
- How Trump's $10 Billion Suit Against His Own Government Could Go Sideways — Peter Nicholas, NBC News
- America's Rare-Earths Solution Is Hiding in Plain Sight — Julie Michelle Klinger, New York Times
- ACA Fraud Is Real. It's Time to Get Serious About Fixing It — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let's Start Treating It That Way — Oren Cass, New York Times
- An IRS Policy That Discourages Generosity — Max Raskin, Wall Street Journal
- Democrats Confront the Party's Questionnaire-Industrial Complex — Jonathan Martin, Politico
- Trump Tries to Show Off His Math Skills, but Flunks Arithmetic — Steve Benen, MS Now
Fiscal News Roundup
- DHS Negotiations Have Yet to Get Underway, Thune Says, as Shutdown Clock Ticks — Politico
- GOP Game-Plans for a DHS Shutdown, as Skepticism Grows Over Talks — The Hill
- Hoyer Floats DHS Bill Without ICE Funds — The Hill
- Capitol Agenda: The Democrats Not Opposed to Another DHS Punt — Politico
- Trump Administration Directs Rescission of $1.5B From Blue States on Health, Transportation — The Hill
- Trump Administration Plans to Reclassify 50,000 Federal Workers, Making Them Easier to Fire — CNN
- Trump Goes After 'Moron' Massie at National Prayer Breakfast — The Hill
- Trump Defends Noem, Gabbard and Bondi at National Prayer Breakfast — Reuters
- GOP Senators Say Powell Probe 'Waste of Time' Amid Warsh Impasse — Bloomberg
- Lindsey Graham Says Johnson Is Open to Expanding Smith Probe Payouts — Politico
- Republicans Fear Trump Backlash Could Cost Them Senate Control — The Hill
- DC National Guard Deployment Costs More Than $1M Per Day, Has No Public Safety Impact: Democrats — The Hill
- Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE — New Republic
- Massachusetts Eyes Its Millionaire Tax for Public Campus Revamp — Bloomberg
- Trump Now Says He 'Probably Should Make It' to Heaven — Associated Press
Views and Analysis
- TrumpRx Set to Launch, but It's Unclear If It Will Lower Drug Prices for Most Patients — Tami Luhby and Adam Cancryn, CNN
- Why These Tax Refunds Won't Boost the Economy — Justin Fox, Bloomberg (video)
- Republicans Have an Economy Problem — Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- Step One on 'Affordability' Can't Be Tax Hikes — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Will the IRS Be Disorganized This Tax Season? Here Are 3 Issues to Watch — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post
- Don't Just Prop Up a Failing Health Care System - Reform It to Focus on Patients — Terry Wilcox and Anthony DiGiorgio, The Hill
- Democrats Finally Have Some Leverage Over ICE Funding — Nia-Malika Henderson, Bloomberg
- DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought — Kenny Stancil, Julian Scoffield and Chris Lewis, Revolving Door Project
- Vought Bends the Curve — Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal
- How Federal Cuts to SNAP Are Already Roiling State Governments — Grace Segers, New Republic