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The House narrowly voted Thursday to cut about $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk.
Kip Eideberg, Senior Vice President of Government & Industry Relations for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), wrote the following op-ed that appeared in Bloomberg Tax:
While tariffs have dominated the conversation about restoring US competitiveness in manufacturing, an important step toward that goal lies hidden away in the federal tax code.
Democratic and Republican legislators have for months been sounding the alarm on how changes to the federal Medicaid funding in the name of tax cuts could cause harm to millions of residents across the U.S.
A federal bill that would increase affordable homeownership opportunities in distressed communities is coming back into the spotlight as a Connecticut lawmaker works to gain its approval.
Rep. John Larson reintroduced the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act. It was first introduced in 2023, and previously received bipartisan support.
A dozen states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy.
The lawsuit said the policy put in place by President Donald Trump has left the national trade policy subject to Trump’s “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.”
The Trump administration this week reportedly classified thousands of immigrants living in the United States as dead in a Social Security database in an effort to force them out of the country, a scheme that was met with furious uproar from advocates and lawmakers.
By entering the names and Social Security numbers of roughly 6,000 immigrants into Social Security's "death master file," the administration has revoked their ability to legally work in the U.S. and receive benefits in a bid to get them to "self-deport," several news outlets reported Thursday.
Demonstrators thronged around the state Capitol in Hartford, filled a park in Stamford and crowded other venues in Connecticut as part of a national “Hands Off” day of action protesting President Donald J. Trump’s upending of the economy, immigration and every corner of federal government in little more than two months back in power.
Democrats have campaigned for years on claims that Republicans wouldcut Social Security. Now the Trump administration’s push to downsize the Social Security Administration hashanded them new ammunition, complicating the GOP’s efforts to steer clear of a politically popular program that some call the “third rail” of American politics.
With Social Security lumbering toward insolvency and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s eagle-eyed focus on the agency, some program proponents are worried it’s on the path to privatization.
As U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary leader of the Social Security Administration threatened to shut down the agency over an unfavorable court ruling on Friday, the billionaire commerce secretary came under fire for suggesting that only "fraudsters" will complain if they don't get their earned benefits.