A Tax Cut For Mass Shootings
Republicans are planning to gut a tax on gun silencers after the tactical gear was linked to several high-profile massacres.
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The Secret Plan To Kill Free Tax Filing
Republicans' tax-cut bill could eliminate the government's popular free tax-filing system and pay off the president’s tax-prep industry donors.
Trump Already Disarmed The War On Drug Prices
To the benefit of Big Pharma, the president’s new executive order on drug costs is missing a key price-lowering mechanism.
The Private Equity Time Bomb Is About To Blow
Private equity firms spent the last two decades plundering beloved American brands for parts — now, they threaten to send the economy further into a tailspin with record-high bankruptcies.
Republicans Want To Upcharge The Poor To Pay For Their Tax Cuts
The GOP’s new budget proposes raising premiums and co-pays for Medicaid beneficiaries, including those at the poverty line, to pay for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy.
Billionaires Are Getting Their Tax Cut, With Or Without Congress
The country’s wealthiest earners stand to benefit the most as Trump slashes the IRS’ workforce and auditing power.
Big Tobacco's Trump Whisperer
A tobacco brand and other former clients of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles are lining up to lobby the Trump administration for favors.
There Goes Your Neighborhood Babbling Brook
In a bid to gut environmental law protecting the nation’s wetlands, Trump’s EPA is relying on a new definition of water.
Project 2025 Is 28 Percent Complete, Thanks To Trump
The president said he had nothing to do with the right-wing plan to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. Now, Project 2025’s authors are celebrating just how much of their agenda Trump has achieved.
From Harvard To The Humane Society: How Trump Could Weaponize The IRS Against Tax-Exempt Groups
The president is eyeing rescinding the tax-exempt status of nonprofit groups he disagrees with.