After falling by 4% in the first full fiscal year of Donald Trump’s second term, the federal budget deficit surged 12% to an eyewatering $1.99 trillion in FY 2026. As Art Laffer, the creator of the eponymous Laffer Curve, insisted, the sweeping tax cuts of 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill did not decrease federal revenue. […]
High diesel gas prices continue to hamper the nation on Thursday despite President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to suspend “diesel fuel tax payment obligations” to help mitigate the expensive current costs for diesel fuel. The national average price for a gallon of diesel has soared in recent months, hurting many truckers, farmers, and other […]
The battle over California’s voter identification proposition promises to be the most competitive race in the state, with Democrats fighting a rare uphill battle in the Golden State. An NBCUniversal Local/Telemundo Station Group poll found that Proposition 39, which would require voter ID for in-person voters and a voter identification number for mail-in ballots, is […]
Abdul El-Sayed once called Barack Obama's re-election "no victory" for progressives, complicating his upcoming campaign rally with the former president.
Keffiyeh-clad activists turned on Zohran Mamdani yesterday, but he bore up under the heckling. These are his people, after all, and they’re doing the...