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  • May 12, 2025
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    A Tale of Two Trade Deals
    A Tale of Two Trade Deals
    The White House is billing its new trade deal with the United Kingdom as “historic” and a “breakthrough” but its achievements pale in comparison to a new agreement signed between the UK and India.
    By Colin Grabow
  • May 12, 2025
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    Trump Attempts Price Controls on Prescription Drugs
    Trump Attempts Price Controls on Prescription Drugs
    Trump’s executive order is a laundry list of coercive actions he plans to take against drug companies who do not make “significant progress” toward his “price targets.” 
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • May 12, 2025
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    ICE Agents Routinely Mask Up When Seizing People—That's Wrong
    ICE Agents Routinely Mask Up When Seizing People—That’s Wrong
    A free society should not tolerate routine masking and other efforts to conceal identity by police arresting people on the street. Masking of ICE deportation agents fits into a wider Trump administration strategy of pursuing impunity for rights-violating law enforcers.
    By Walter Olson
  • May 9, 2025
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    Friday Feature: MCP Academy
    Friday Feature: MCP Academy
    While Texas microschool founder Cammy Herrera isn’t sure if she’ll participate in the state’s new ESA, she thinks it will help spur the creation of new educational options.
    By Colleen Hroncich
  • May 9, 2025
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    Luna Introduces PATRIOT Act Repeal Bill
    Luna Introduces PATRIOT Act Repeal Bill
    “It’s past time to rein in our intelligence agencies and restore the right to privacy. Anyone trying to convince you otherwise is using ‘security’ as an excuse to erode your freedom.”
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • May 9, 2025
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    In Congress, a Move To Strip Courts of Contempt Powers
    In Congress, a Move To Strip Courts of Contempt Powers
    Contempt powers protect important rights. When the government tramples lawlessly on your interests, court orders—and the mechanisms for enforcing them—are often going to provide your only practical remedy. If a federal agency takes a notion to seize your house, business, firearms, or bank accounts, a federal judge currently can hear the evidence and tell the agency to give those things back.
    By Walter Olson
  • May 8, 2025
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    Los Angeles Corruption
    Big government creates fertile grounds for corruption. More auditing and greater transparency would help, but the more licensing, permitting, and subsidies that cities enact, the more bribery scandals they will likely endure.
    By Chris Edwards
  • May 8, 2025
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    Corporate Welfare and Low-Income Welfare
    Chris Edwards testified yesterday at a House hearing focused on low-income welfare programs, including housing and food programs. The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are proposing to cut some of these programs.
    By Chris Edwards
  • May 8, 2025
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    Affordable Housing Testimony
    Chris Edwards testified to a House subcommittee yesterday about affordable housing. In particular, he discussed the low-income housing tax credit, which is a very inefficient way to expand affordable housing.
    By Chris Edwards
  • May 7, 2025
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    CBO Score Shows Medicaid Is Inefficient and Current Spending Levels Unpopular
    CBO Score Shows Medicaid Is Inefficient and Current Spending Levels Unpopular
    New CBO projections confirm the worst fears of inefficient health care providers and other Medicaid supporters: states and voters do not support current Medicaid spending levels. They also show that Medicaid is a highly inefficient program. Congress needs to go much further than current proposals and fundamentally reform Medicaid with zero-growth block grants.
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • May 7, 2025
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    Social Security’s Financial Crisis in Pictures
    Social Security’s Financial Crisis in Pictures
    Today, we’ve released a new visual feature that brings the paper’s key insights to life through engaging, interactive graphics. It demonstrates how Social Security’s cash-flow shortfalls—though covered by its trust fund reserves on paper—have still resulted in trillions in new government borrowing since the “reserves” consist of Treasury IOUs that are repaid with additional debt. 
    By Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia
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