Thanks to DHS, congressional Republicans can simultaneously cut spending and enforce immigration law. They should. And they can by reducing federal funds going to over 600 jurisdictions obstructing the enforcement of U.S. immigration law — so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Lucre and…
Media reports on the IRS’s Direct File pilot program tend to repeat a few key talking points: claiming that the program is “free,” widely accessible, and popular with taxpayers. But these misleadingly rosy narratives overlook serious flaws with the program…
Amazing. Apparently, Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds over the action to be taken — or not taken — on the comprehensive spending bill winding through Congress. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Rescission Cometh) Now. In this tussle between…
Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is making its way through Congress. What sounds like it was pulled from a kindergarten politics workshop might just mark the return of the United States as the true “Land of the Free.” A…
Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year, but thankfully, Congress is taking action. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which packages an extension of the…
On Wednesday evening, the world’s wealthiest man announced that his sojourn in the nation’s capital is almost over. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President (Donald Trump) for…
After 130 days, Elon Musk’s tenure at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ended yesterday as scheduled. What remains are key revelations of systemic corruption — and the sobering realization that modern government is a reform-proof, power-entrenched apparatus. “The federal…
It’s fun for the columnist when the columns prove prescient. Not that my column last week encouraging conservatives to take the win on the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill was particularly earthshattering in its reference to a coming…
The next month will be one in which Congress finally gets down to brass tacks on what the tax reform bill long talked about will actually look like. While most of the tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and…
