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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signed waivers for six more states this week that authorize them to ban the purchase of soda and junk food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as food stamps. Twelve states have now received such waivers through President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, including one Democratic…

President Donald Trump should be concerned about the accuracy of the census, especially since the last one undercounted in Republican states, costing them six net seats in the House. However, a mid-decade census would not only be unprecedented but also logistically impossible, as it takes years to plan and hire for. Additionally, while Trump has…

The news that a staff member of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted and bloodied by a group of would-be carjackers early Sunday morning is yet another reminder that the Washington, D.C., government’s refusal to clean up the district’s crime problem is a national embarrassment. On Tuesday, following the brutal beating of…

President Donald Trump deserves much praise for securing the southern border without any new laws and lining up the cash needed for future immigration enforcement in the “one big, beautiful bill.” But Republican governors deserve plenty of credit on border security, too, especially those who effectively turned the tide on illegal immigration in their states…

A little over a month into his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order promising to “expand access” to in vitro fertilization. That order called for recommendations to be submitted in 90 days. One hundred sixty-eight days have passed, and doctors profiting off the IVF industry are now complaining to the…

President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the July Employment Situation report revised May and June payroll estimates down by more than 250,000 jobs total. Trump is a businessman who is used to paying for good data, and so he understandably was flummoxed by the BLS’s consistently overestimating…

The Supreme Court limited its scope last month. President Donald Trump changed how federal agencies enforce it during his first month in office. Republicans tried to rewrite it in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but were thwarted by the parliamentarian. Now, permitting reformers are back, this time with a bipartisan House bill that would…

Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate did his best to defend President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in front of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Thursday, but he is arguing an unprecedented case and the judges on the panel, particularly the eight appointed by Democrats, signaled they were…

Employers may have added just 73,000 jobs in the month of July, according to the latest Labor Department jobs report published Friday. But that same survey found that the number of native-born workers with jobs rose by 383,000, bringing the total number of native-born jobs gained to over 2 million since President Donald Trump took…

Zohran Mamdani, son of a politics professor and a Disney director, is a child of immense privilege, so it’s easy to dismiss his ideas about policing as the product of youthful excess emerging untouched by reality from an insulated upbringing. But Mamdani is a heavy favorite to become the next mayor of New York City,…