Author: Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda hasn’t caused increased inflation, as predicted by many economists, but it does appear to be having one unintended consequence: shrinking America’s manufacturing workforce. Though Trump didn’t make good on his campaign promise to wipe out post-pandemic price spikes immediately upon entering office, economic forecasts claiming the president’s tariffs would drive…

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative labor group is targeting President Donald Trump and lawmakers directly, not voters, with a new advertising campaign, as both Republicans and Democrats fine-tune their messaging points ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The ad campaign, paid for by the Coalition to Protect American Workers, will run this week in Washington across…

President Donald Trump is emptying a clip on affordability, a clear sign that economic concerns will dictate control of both congressional majorities in the 2026 midterm elections. Since last November, when Democrats swept the major off-year elections, the president has unleashed a multitude of proposals to allay voters’ economic fears. Many would undoubtedly require new…

Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that President Donald Trump is creating a new attorney general position to lead government efforts to investigate and prosecute fraud cases. Vance joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at an unscheduled briefing Thursday afternoon in which he asserted that fraud schemes like the one uncovered in Minnesota are…

President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to focus on healthcare reform as a winning issue heading into the 2026 midterm elections, noting the party will likely need to be “flexible” in its staunch anti-abortion stance. Speaking at the newly named Trump-Kennedy Center on Tuesday, Trump opened by claiming that, in 2025, Republicans were the “most…

The Trump administration announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new healthcare grants for all 50 states on Monday as part of a program launched by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act over the summer. The law allocated $50 billion for a new Rural Health Transformation program to partially offset nearly $140 billion…

President Donald Trump delivered an end-of-year address to the nation on Wednesday night, the vast majority of which consisted of him repeating attacks on his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, as he sought to once again tie him to affordability concerns among voters. Eleven months after re-entering office with virtually the highest approval rating of…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Wednesday that hedge fund manager Ray Dalio will join Michael Dell in personally donating to the “Trump accounts,” an investment facilitation program set up for every U.S. citizen child born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028. The program, which was supplemented by a $6 billion donation by…