Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unveiled on Monday the Democrats’ counter-offensive plan against the broad government audit being conducted by President Donald Trump’s temporary agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). ‘Senate Democrats have a responsibility to fight back on behalf of American families as Republicans look the other way in obedience to Donald Trump. And we are,’ he ...
More than 100 congressional lawmakers have lined up behind the goal of cutting government waste, as Republicans and Democrats wage an aggressive ideological battle over the merits of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Congressional DOGE Caucus was founded shortly after President Donald Trump tapped Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory panel on where the federal ...
Have you ever held on too long to a winning position? You watch as that former top performer in your portfolio slows down, and then rotates lower, and then really begins to deteriorate, and you just watch it all happen without taking action? If the answer is “yes” then you have fallen victim to one of the more frustrating of ...
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently released an FAQ on the so-called Social Security Fairness Act (HR 82), which eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). While the SSA focuses on the benefit increases that public sector workers can expect to collect (some in excess of $1,000 more per month!), the FAQ ...
The market rebounded to start trading on Monday, but indicators on Friday suggest internal weakness. Carl gives us his latest analysis on the market as well as taking a look at Gold which is making more all-time highs. Get Carl’s perspective on the Gold rally. Besides looking at the market, Carl walked us through the DP Signal Tables and took ...
Democratic lawmakers are fueling concerns of a partial government shutdown, warning they may withhold support for any plan in protest of President Donald Trump’s shakeup of the federal government. Left-wing leaders who have warned of the catastrophic consequences of government shutdowns in the past are now publicly signaling it could be a possibility – and they are already positioning to ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it would be cutting billions in overhead costs associated with federally funded research grants that go to various institutions, as part of a wider move by the Trump administration to slash wasteful spending. The agency’s announcement unveiling the directive indicated that in fiscal year 2023, the NIH spent around $35 billion across roughly ...
Iran’s assassination threats against Donald Trump have loomed over the president in recent days and are more serious than publicly reported, an upcoming book claims. Axios reporter Isaac Isenstadt’s upcoming book, ‘Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,’ claims that law enforcement officials warned Trump in 2024 that Iran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to ...
Adam N. Michel Some Republican members of Congress believe that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts with anything less than $4.7 trillion in revenue reductions is impossible. This belief is misguided. Such a large tax cut—without equally large spending cuts—suggests Republicans may have given up on cutting spending and other subsidies in the tax code. The tax code still has ...
Patrick G. Eddington Late on Friday, February 7, President Trump issued an executive order titled Protecting Second Amendment Rights. The order directs newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi to …examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens, and ...