Patrick G. Eddington In 24 hours, we’ve gone from former President Donald Trump demanding “KILL FISA” to Trump apparently working out a deal with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R‑LA) to cut the…
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Analysis of 2022 Audited Financial Reports Shows Wide Variance in State Fiscal Health
Marc Joffe With California’s very late publication last month, all fifty states have now produced audited financial reports for their 2022 fiscal year. The availability of these reports allows us…
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Chris Edwards After five rounds, tens of thousands of online voters have chosen the most wasteful federal program: the subsidies and tax breaks in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of…
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Patrick G. Eddington These kinds of things can be hard to quantify, but I imagine that former President Trump’s blistering TruthSocial post this morning telling Congress to “Kill FISA” probably had…
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Adam N. Michel President Joe Biden proposes raising the corporate income tax rate, capital gains tax rate, and personal income tax rates, among other tax increases. These hikes would make…
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Colin Grabow Writing in National Affairs, Senator Marco Rubio (R‑FL) recently made the case for a more vigorous—some might even say intrusive—government role in encouraging the development of US manufacturing. Such an…
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Patrick G. Eddington Late yesterday (April 9), the House Rules Committee held a marathon hearing to set the terms of debate, including allowable amendments, for the controversial Reforming Intelligence and Securing…
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Thomas A. Berry The selection of Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general in 2018 directed unprecedented attention toward a previously little‐studied constitutional question. Whitaker was a relatively obscure figure in the…
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Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign-Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975-2023
Alex Nowrasteh The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975–2023 period, according to my new policy…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine‐related emergency funding, equivalent to the combined 2023 budget for the Department of Homeland Security…