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January 13, 2025Federal Employee Unions are Trying to Block Trump's AgendaDecember 16, 2024Fox News: Capitol Hill braces for high-stakes showdown over $36T US debt crisisDecember 3, 2024DOGE Brings the X Factor and Will be SuccessfulOctober 30, 2024Washington Examiner: The true cost of Biden-Harris economicsJanuary 16, 2024The Hill: Debunking Biden’s deficit claims, one by oneMatthew Dickerson writes in The Hill: Federal spending last year was nearly $1 trillion higher than projections made before the Biden presidency. Remember that the next time you hear President Biden claim that he has reduced the deficit.December 7, 2023Daily Caller: Proposed Congressional Commission Must Protect Americans From Soaring Debt And Ruinous Tax IncreasesThe term “congressional commission” has lost its novelty. Congress has established over 100 congressional commissions, including several focused on major budget and economic questions. Yet the US national debt stands at $33.7 trillion and counting. As a resultDecember 6, 2023RealClear Policy: Congressional Fiscal Commission the Best First Step to Address Nation’s Debt CrisisOctober 23, 2023EPIC Fellow Bill Beach on DC EKG PodcastOctober 13, 2023RealClear Politics: Research Shows Blanket School Closures Cause Long-Term HarmSeptember 28, 2023America’s government will probably shut down, again, on October 1st ↗August 31, 2023WSJ: Fitch Downgrade Could Mean Medicaid Cuts ↗By Brooklyn Roberts and Thomas Savidge, WSJ - Fitch’s decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating came with a prediction of “fiscal deterioration”—the U.S. has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 112.9% and lawmakers appear unable to make a serious commitment to getting cAugust 22, 2023Washington Post: Trump vows massive new tariffs if elected, risking global economic war ↗By Jeff Stein, Washington Post - Former president floats 10 percent tax on all foreign imports and calls for economic ‘ring around the collar’.August 12, 2023Fox Business: Social Security, Medicare are on the rocks - and no leader in either party wants to step up ↗By Elizabeth Elkind FOXBusiness Medicare and Social Security reform were once top policy items for officials in charge of the country’s fiscal health, but the growing political cost of even discussing entitlement reform has prompted politicians to drop the issAugust 9, 2023Washington Examiner: New conservative research group EPIC looks to stave off long-term budget disaster ↗Zachary Halaschak, Economics Reporter - A new upstart think tank founded by a former Trump official is looking to work behind the scenes to educate lawmakers and staff about how to right the country’s fiscal ship.July 31, 2023POLITICO Influence: Trump Budget Alum Launches Think Tank ↗CAITLIN OPRYSKO TRUMP BUDGET ALUM LAUNCHES THINK TANK: Former Trump budget aide Paul Winfree is launching his own economic think tank, just as Republicans gear up for a government funding fight this fall.July 31, 2023POLITICO Huddle: Trump Budget Alum Launches Think Tank ↗ANTHONY ADRAGNA Former Trump budget aide Paul Winfree is launching his own economic think tank — just as Republicans gear up for a government funding fight.May 5, 2023Washington Examiner: Biden's economic strategy is based on a failed model ↗Paul Winfree - The Biden administration is rolling out what it calls the “New Washington Consensus” in an attempt to fuse its domestic and international economic policy agendas. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan delivered the contours of BideApril 18, 2023RealClearPolitics: Washington Uses Tax Dollars as Patronage Fund for State Programs ↗Paul Winfree - “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote. It turns out that civilization doesn’t come cheap. Last year, the federal government collected about $3 trillion in income taxes. This was in addition to $1.5 t