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By Alan D. Viard The budget reconciliation bill recently assembled by the House Budget Committee includes numerous tax increases on high-income households. One novel provision (section 138206) calls for a new 3 percent surtax on adjusted gross income (AGI) in excess of

It’s been widely rumored in Republican circles that Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, wants to launch a joint venture with former President Donald Trump on a massive 15,000-acre roller-coaster-themed amusement park on the

A scandal-plagued “VIP” program that provided members of Congress with Federal Air Marshals (FAM) often yanked from high-risk fights has been canceled after Judicial Watch exposed it earlier this month. As a result, hundreds of FAM are sitting idly at airports around

BY DEREK SCISSORS The Endless Frontier Act is getting hard to follow. The April version, championed by Majority Leader Schumer, was 160 pages long. The version passed this week by the Senate Commerce Committee more than doubles that. There are now many issues

BY GARY J. SCHMITT The General Accounting Office (GAO) just released a report detailing “readiness” levels for the US military. Readiness is measured by each of the services with respect to a unit’s ability to fight and accomplish the missions assigned to

BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN, JOHN G. FERRARI, and ELAINE McCUSKER As the Pentagon sprints to deliver its full 2022 budget request to Congress next month, Washington is anxious to get more information to conduct oversight, adjudicate priorities, and move needed military

BY KATHARINE B. STEVENS Last Saturday, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed the massive $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, now under consideration in the Senate. The so-called “COVID-19 relief package” includes multiple childcare provisions: $39 billion to address “an acute, immediate childcare

Judicial Watch announced today that it and the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) received 301 pages of emails and other records of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showing that

Today, Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs Tom Reed (R-NY) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) released the following statement: “Today, the Problem Solvers Caucus congratulates Joe Biden on being sworn in as our 46th President. Our nation is at a critical juncture: After

In a scary preview of what lies ahead, a cherished senior advisor to President Joe Biden ranks murderous Communist dictator Mao Zedong among her “favorite political philosophers.” The egregious admission actually forced the veteran political operative, Anita Dunn, to resign as Obama’s

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Joe Biden wants more government intervention in the American economy. And not just cutting checks to people. Biden favors a national industrial policy, what his “build back better” campaign agenda describes as a “comprehensive manufacturing and innovation strategy” which “will marshall

President-elect Joe Biden is offering his formal backing to an ‘omnibus Indian recognition bill’ early in the next Congress.  Sources close to the matter expect the bill to include formal federal recognition of the indigenous political status of Native Hawaiians

In the unlikely event that the alleged President-elect Joe Biden, 77, dies before the House of Representatives officially certifies the election on January 6th, the House of Representatives would elect the President.  If Biden dies after that certification but before

Sources inside the White House tell The Chronicle that President Donald J. Trump‘s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, plans to launch a yet-to-be-established foundation intended to fundraise more than $1 billion to construct and manage The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.  Ms.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s majority in the House of Representatives is slimming to a narrow 222 -to- 213 margin.  The math of the matter has political operative Roger Stone encouraging President Donald J. Trump to seek the House Speakership. In order

BY MATT WEIDINGER On Monday, Joe Biden expressed support for further stimulus legislation, calling specifically for the enactment of legislation “like the HEROES Act,” which the House passed in May and subsequently went nowhere in the Republican-led Senate: President-elect Joe Biden on Monday urged

Following pushback to rumors late last week that Michelle Rhee is at the top of President-elect Joe Biden‘s shortlist to lead the Department of Education, the transition team is now quietly floating the idea of nominating the First-Lady-in-Waiting, Dr. Jill

The innermost circles of the American mafia are abuzz.  The Boss of the Philly mob — ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino — is taking a victory strut, hobnobbing around the highest echelons of old-time mafia folk, mostly in Florida, describing what may