The Insanity of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
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Plus: Trump’s E.U. trade deadline, masked ICE agents, and Elon Musk’s third-party.
Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Eric Boehm |
There's no evidence that cuts to the National Weather Service impacted the response to the weekend's tragic flash floods.
In 2018, Trump hailed a trade deal with South Korea as "fair and reciprocal" and said it was "a historic milestone in trade." So much for that.
Yet another wasteful expense in the "big, beautiful bill."
The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.
The ban is a bad law. But leaving it on the books and willfully ignoring it sets a potentially more dangerous precedent.
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The big problem here is the elite racism of college admissions departments, not the mayoral candidate's creative box-checking.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
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