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Senate Republicans’ vote to advance Billy Long’s nomination to lead the IRS is a direct attack on the agency’s ability to ensure fair enforcement of our tax system.
“I think it’s going to be a challenge for a number of our trading partners, who feel like they are negotiating with a gun to their heads and negotiating with an administration that is not reliable,” said Alex Jacquez, who worked for the National Economic Council during the Biden administration. “You are just negotiating in a climate in which you do not know what your counterpart wants at the end of the day or is going to do in the interim," Jacquez said. "And so there’s not much of an incentive to come to the table if you are just going to get whacked for doing so.”
Some of the challenges are self-inflicted, but a fresh set of court rulings questioning the president’s authority to enact tariffs hangs over his trade agenda.
Secretary Bessent can pretend prices aren’t going up, but American consumers literally have the receipts.
“It is not long ago that you can remember what eggs cost in 2021 or 2021, compared to now,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the progressive Groundwork Collaborative.
American consumers may be learning to live with inflation.
President Trump’s erratic tariff policy is sowing chaos in our economy.
Elon Musk’s tenure as a Special Government Employee has come to an end, leaving behind a trail of destruction that has made life harder and more expensive for millions of Americans while enriching Musk himself.
RealPage’s pricing schemes and collusive behavior stifle competition, drive up rent, and rip off working families.
President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” aimed at cutting taxes and federal spending will also include cuts to programs like the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).