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Trump Gives IVF a Shoutout in the State of the Union Address
About an hour into his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump gave a shoutout to Catherine, a woman undergoing IV. Trump wished her the best of luck and said he knew she was going to make a wonderful mother. It was a brief bit, and a callback to earlier Trump statements (he claimed […]
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Don’t Believe Trump’s Brags About Bringing Down Drug Prices
At the 2026 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump bragged that he is “ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs.” “I got it done under my just-enacted most-favored-nation agreements,” he claimed. “Americans, who for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs, will […]
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Trump Says Tech Companies Should Build Their Own Power Plants for AI Data Centers
Affordability was a theme of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Among other things, that meant talking about electricity prices. Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would halve electricity prices within 18 months of coming into office. But so far, rate increases have easily outpaced inflation. In December […]
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Going To Eliminate the Income Tax
It’s been a chaotic few days for President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, but one thing remains very true: Tariffs are not going to offset the federal income tax anytime soon. “As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income […]
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Trump Demands Congress Ban Large Investors Owning Homes. Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea.
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump touted his executive order cracking down on large institutional investors purchasing single-family homes and then letting them out as rental housing. “I signed an executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms are buying up in the thousands single family homes, and now I’m […]
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3 Bogus Economic Stats in Trump’s State of the Union
President Donald Trump made many outlandish economic claims in this year’s State of the Union address. Here are three of the most wildly wrong: 1. The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. Inflation was pretty bad under President Joe Biden. Rampant deficit spending […]
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ICE Whistleblower Says Training Is ‘Deficient, Defective, and Broken’
On Monday, an attorney and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructor, Ryan Schwank, testified before Congress that the agency’s new training program is “deficient, defective, and broken,” leading to constitutional violations and unlawful arrests. “Deficient training,” Schwank added, “can and will get people killed.” The testimony took place during a public hearing organized by […]
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Court Rules Chicago Is Liable for $163 Million in Overcharged Parking and Sticker Fines
An Illinois county court ruled the city of Chicago is liable for $163 million in vehicle fines that it illegally overcharged residents. In a February 19 order, Judge William B. Sullivan granted summary judgment in favor of Chicagoans in a class action lawsuit against the city, writing that to find that they had been “systematically […]
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