The Department of Government Efficiency came to an official end this past weekend as the Trump administration’s cost-cutting effort reached a self-imposed termination date of July 4, 2026. First ...

President Trump said Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran is “over” and promised a new round of attacks in retaliation for Iranian attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz this week.

Happy Tuesday! Perhaps we should call it TACO Tuesday, after President Trump backtracked on the threat he made yesterday to impose a 20% fee on cargo ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Happy Wednesday! The Senate held a series of high-profile - and at times combative - confirmation hearings today. Lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee grilled Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

Two years ago, a branch manager at Widget Financial, a federal credit union in Erie, Pennsylvania, began to get suspicious. He had been processing several account opening requests and thought it ...

The main Social Security trust fund will run dry in late 2032, resulting in a 22% reduction in benefits unless Congress acts to shore up the program’s finances, according to the latest projections ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

The Senate parliamentarian ruled late Thursday that some parts of the $72 billion reconciliation bill that Republicans plan to use to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol ...

A new nationwide study on the fiscal implications of illegal immigration concludes that millions of undocumented immigrants are paying billions of dollar in taxes into state and local coffers, and ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he declared.