As the Senate debates the GOP’s massive landmark spending and tax cut bill – dubbed by President Donald Trump as his ‘big, beautiful bill’ – a new national poll indicates that a majority of American voters oppose the measure. Fifty-three percent questioned in a new Quinnipiac University national survey said they oppose the bill, with 27% in support of the ...
The Pentagon is considering backing out of the nuclear submarine agreement former President Joe Biden struck with Australia and the United Kingdom, amid shipbuilding problems back at home. ‘The Department is reviewing AUKUS as part of ensuring that this initiative of the previous Administration is aligned with the president’s ‘America First’ agenda,’ a U.S. defense official said. ‘As Secretary Hegseth ...
California Dem tells Hegseth he’s an ’embarrassment’ to the US, should ‘get the hell out’ of the DOD
A California Democrat told Pete Hegseth on Thursday that he is an ’embarrassment’ to the United States and should ‘get the hell out’ of the Department of Defense after the Secretary chided the lawmaker for a ‘silly question’ he asked during a house hearing. The outburst from Rep. Salud Carbajal was immediately followed by a call for decorum as lawmakers ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday that he has selected eight new people to join the national vaccine panel after firing all 17 of its members. In an X post, Kennedy revealed that he ‘took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines’ on Monday by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). ...
The war of words between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, appears to be over, and there are signs of some reconciliation. However, a new poll suggests that the verbal attacks by Musk, who spent the first four months of Trump’s second administration as a special White House advisor steering the recently created Department of Government ...
The fate of President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion spending cuts request could rest on the shoulders of a handful of moderate House Republicans. The House of Representatives is set to consider the measure on Thursday afternoon, which cuts $8.3 billion in funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and just over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Previous Cato at Liberty posts have demonstrated that increased trade with China did not decimate US manufacturing. By multiple metrics, US manufacturing is stronger than ever, and increased productivity has meant that fewer people can produce more things throughout the post-WWII period. (This productivity phenomenon occurred all over the developed world, even in China.) Even the job losses concentrated ...
You’ll hear a lot of nonsense these days about “British jobs for British people”, as though talent stops at Dover and genius requires a passport. I’m here to tell you—rhetorically, floridly, perhaps even provocatively—that if we carry on down that road, the only thing we’ll be exporting is our future. Because here’s the cold, unapologetic truth: some of the best ...
Jennifer Huddleston In 2023, many “doomers” who worried about artificial intelligence (AI) growth called for a moratorium on AI development in a viral letter. In the two years since, however, not only has the doomsday scenario failed to occur, but AI has both advanced and become more accepted by consumers for its usefulness and entertaining applications, such as turning your ...
Georgina Badine is not your typical entrepreneur. Having spent 14 years in the cut and thrust of the finance industry, she saw first-hand how people were often held back — not just by circumstance or skills, but by a lack of confidence and belief in themselves. Today, as founder of Invicta Vita, she’s on a mission to change that. “We ...