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A new study reveals that Donald Trump’s second-term economic program raises net costs for 99 percent of Americans while enriching the top 1 percent. Middle-class households lose an average of $1,700 this year as tariffs and lost health subsidies cancel out meager tax gimmicks. The findings demonstrate that trickle-down economics remains a ruinous zombie idea.

Pentagon officials exploited experimental prototype acquisition rules to direct nearly $350 million in no-bid consulting contracts to Alvarez & Marsal. The transaction enriched an affiliate of senior official George K. Kollitides II while ethics disclosures remain hidden from the public.

After draining nearly $300 million from local classrooms in its opening semester, state officials are already demanding $2 billion to expand Texas voucher accounts. Behind the rhetoric of parental choice sits a calculated raid on rural districts and disabled schoolchildren.

Faced with historic energy inflation ahead of the midterm elections, Donald Trump authorized the highway use of untaxed red-dyed diesel at a Nebraska rally. Behind the populist spectacle lies a hollow regulatory deferral that leaves independent truckers and family farmers exposed to back taxes, voided warranties, and state penalties while insulating corporate oil monopolies from structural reform.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. intervened on Thursday to halt a federal appellate order requiring regulators to rule on discounted broadcast rates for political party committees. By insulating administrative inaction from judicial review weeks before the midterm elections, the high court weaponizes procedural exhaustion to preserve a multimillion-dollar windfall for party apparatuses. The decision exposes how regulatory pocket vetoes can rewrite federal statute while locking the courthouse doors against affected candidates.

Government investigations reveal that corporations facing federal prosecution poured $210.5 million into political coffers to secure the dismissal of 212 enforcement actions. The transactional spectacle lays bare an executive apparatus trading public protection for tributary gold. In Washington’s gilded halls, the law has ceased to be blind and learned to count.

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a staggering seventy-thousand-dollar fee on universities for recommending international graduates for post-study work authorization. By transforming campus foreign student advisers into high-stakes toll collectors, the agency seeks to price immigrant talent out of the country through raw administrative extortion. What began as routine paperwork has become an existential ransom that threatens the foundations of higher education.

At an industry gathering in New Mexico, the Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping rollbacks of federal methane rules to hand oil producers a $45 billion windfall. By exempting the nation’s leakiest marginal wells and terminating independent satellite oversight, regulators are subordinating atmospheric survival to fossil fuel balance sheets.

The Office of Personnel Management has capped top ratings across the federal civil service at 40 percent, reviving the discredited corporate practice of stack ranking. Across federal agencies this week, calibration panels are systematically downgrading dedicated career staff whose performance met every objective benchmark. The administrative maneuver threatens to replace merit-based public service with arbitrary managerial rationing.

New York City has launched the nation’s first municipal rule requiring companies to let consumers cancel subscriptions as easily as they joined. After federal courts dismantled nationwide protections, local regulators are forcing digital merchants and neighborhood gyms to offer an exit door. The measure offers ordinary people a rare reprieve from corporate extortion engineered into daily software.

Eleven asylum-seekers at a private Texas prison have launched a hunger strike with an unprecedented demand: transfer out of the federal Fifth Circuit. Their fast exposes how the geography of federal appeals courts has created a zone where constitutional due process no longer functions.