Like President Trump or not, his second term is going much better for him than his first was. This time eight years ago, his presidency was in disarray, reeling from the Russiagate probe and the Senate’s rejection of ObamaCare repeal.
That’s night and day from the current administration’s early victories from the tax-and-spending megabill, immigration and universal injunctions.
Even European leaders and Ivy League universities are now heeding Trump’s demands. The pr...
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What you missed at the socialism 2025 annual conference
While those who love America spent the Fourth of July weekend celebrating the country’s freedom and independence, those who hate America spent that same weekend in Chicago (where else?) decrying that freedom and wishing everyone was more dependent — on government handouts, socialized medicine, environmental mandates and price controls.
Welcome to the Socialism 2025 annual conference.
The only thing missing was a keynote speech by New York City’s Democratic candidat...
America’s ‘useful idiots’ — the left calls for revolution as the ultimate virtue signal
During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as "useful idiots." Although the origin of the quote has been challenged (and attributed to both Lenin and Stalin), it captured many of the adherents of communism after World War II. From higher education to Hollywood, dilettantes on the left embraced Marxism with little real understanding of the philosophy or its implications.
We are now seeing the rise of a new generation of armchair revolutio...
Congestion pricing is working in New York, and it proves government can do big things
In a moment when good government can feel out of reach, New York’s congestion pricing program proves something rare and powerful: We can still do big things. Policy debates in New York often take on a larger-than-life quality, with every decision under a national microscope. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of transportation. From celebrities showing up at town halls about bike lanes to viral videos of subway breakdowns, transit policy here tends to provoke big reactions.
Congestion pricing is working in New York, and it proves government can do big things
In a moment when good government can feel out of reach, New York’s congestion pricing program proves something rare and powerful: We can still do big things. Policy debates in New York often take on a larger-than-life quality, with every decision under a national microscope. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of transportation. From celebrities showing up at town halls about bike lanes to viral videos of subway breakdowns, transit policy here tends to provoke big reactions.
Larry Summers is having a convenient short-term memory lapse on welfare reform
Larry Summers has some nerve. The economist is ripping Republican’s “cruel” efforts to rein in out-of-control Medicaid spending.
Yet he himself participated in one of the biggest welfare reforms of our lifetime.
In 1996, with Summers serving in his Treasury Department, President Bill Clinton signed into law measures that ended welfare as an “entitlement,” pushed people to go to work, made relief temporary and limited federal funding for state programs.
So...
The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ is delivering on Republican promises
Seventy-seven million Americans voted for President Trump and a Republican majority to cut taxes, secure our border, restore our economy and put working families first. With the signing of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” we are delivering on those promises, marking the beginning of the Golden Age of America.
This is a historic win for millions of American families, workers, seniors, small businesses and servicemembers. As vice chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, I’m...
Why Democrats don’t care about most health care fraud
One thing has become clear in the debate over President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”: Democrats don’t really care about waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage (i.e., ObamaCare). That’s obvious from their opposition to Republican efforts to audit those programs to ensure only eligible people are enrolled.
To be fair, Democrats do care about health care fraud if a private health insurer or drug company is accused of defrauding a government health...
Trump’s budget bill sells out America’s future — soon, Republicans will pay
Elon Musk is right: the massive cash giveaway to the richest at the expense of the poorest that Senate Republicans passed this week is “utterly insane and destructive.”
Average Americans, and soon enough many Republican politicians, will regret the budget bill President Trump and the far-right have cooked up if, as expected, the full Congress passes a final version of the bill into law before the July 4 holiday. The bill will sell out the future of hundreds of millio...
Medicaid cuts could save thousands of lives
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” goes the well-known saying often attributed to Mark Twain. There is no better demonstration of this wisdom than today's falsehoods about Medicaid cuts that are reported, repeated, reposted and retweeted, even as the truth gets but a few eyeballs.
NBC News recently predicted, “Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths.” Other mainstream media claimed similar ...