President-elect Donald Trump for years has differentiated himself from Republicans by ruling out cutting or privatizing popular programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But as Salon's Heather Parton writes, Trump's decision to empower X CEO Elon Musk to lead a "Department of Government Efficiency" leads her to believe that major cuts to these programs are firmly on the table …
Stocks notched their biggest week of the year after Donald Trump’s victory. Treasury yields, which rise when bond prices fall, climbed after Tuesday’s election, lifted by bets that a second round of Trump tax cuts will boost growth, inflation and budget deficits. Stocks and Treasury yields similarly surged eight years ago when Trump claimed his first electoral win—a major part …
The stakes of the 2024 election are existential for the future of American democracy. Instead, public opinion polls show an election that is basically tied and one of the closest in modern American history. In an attempt to make better sense of the 2024 election and what the public opinion polls currently indicate about the state of the race for …
Reacting to an angry rant delivered by Donald Trump when he showed up for court on Friday morning, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig noted the former president looked "frazzled," which could be a clue to prosecutors that they are getting to him after only three days in court. "Elie, from just watching how Donald Trump was in speaking to …
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