Lambert / Getty Images 'Big Beautiful Bill' Alert for New American Parents: Your Baby Just Got $1000 One lesser-known provision of the Big Beautiful Bill passed in early July is the so-called $1,000 Trump Accounts for newborns. By Randy DeSoto July 12, 2025
Alex Wong / Getty ImagesCommentary AOC Fights Back Tears, Calls the Passing of Trump's Bill 'One of the Saddest Days in Modern American History' AOC is having real trouble grappling with the "Big Beautiful Bill," as her comments to the press on Thursday indicate. By Samuel Short July 5, 2025
Madison Swart - Hans Lucas -AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary NYC Socialist Mamdani Calls for Shifting Heavier Tax Burden to 'Whiter Neighborhoods' The Democrats' Socialist candidate for Mayor in NYC, Zorhan Mamdani, has a housing plan that will focus on taxing whites more than others. By Nick Givas June 27, 2025
Aaron M. Sprecher / Getty Images Blue State Democrats' 'Taylor Swift Tax' Proposal Triggers Backlash "Please, don't take from our housing market at the moment to balance the budget for other items, it's going to be detrimental." By Bryan Chai June 25, 2025
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Trump's Already at War, But an 'Under-the-Radar' One with Billionaire Sports Owners: Report The elimination of the tax break was included in the House's version of the "Big, Beautiful Bill" but isn't included in the Senate version. By V. Saxena June 23, 2025
(Joseph Prezioso - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary Gov. Kathy Hochul Tells New Yorkers They'll Be Paying Big Bucks to Illegal Aliens - Did She Just Throw Her Job Away? New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul might want to stop wasting tax dollars on illegal immigrants if she hopes to be re-elected. By Samuel Short June 18, 2025
Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesCommentary One Killer Fact About the New IRS Commissioner's Past Should Have the Agency Shaking The new IRS commissioner has an adversarial history with that agency going back to his work in Congress; are we about to see a big change? By Samuel Short June 14, 2025
uschools / Getty ImagesPremium Deep Dive: Here's What's in Congress' Version of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' The Big Beautiful Bill's next hurdle is in the Senate, where it will face opposition, at least in the form it passed the House last month. By Randy DeSoto June 14, 2025
Kent Nishimura / Getty ImagesCommentary Hawaii's Shameless Cash Grab Taxes Tourists Even More Under New 'Climate Impact Fee' "The fee will restore and remediate our beaches and shorelines and harden infrastructure critical to the health and safety of all." By C. Douglas Golden June 3, 2025
Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images; Saul Loeb - AFP / Getty Images NPR Declares War on Trump's Funding Executive Order with Major Court Move "Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased ..." By Bryan Chai May 27, 2025