Trump Warns of Economic Disaster if Court Strikes Down Tariffs

The president has crowed about the billions of dollars collected so far from tariffs. That money could be at risk if the White House loses the legal battle.

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Judge Tells Trump Officials to Release Funds for Democracy Group

The Trump administration had been withholding $239 million in congressionally appropriated funding from the National Endowment for Democracy when the group sued in March.

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Trump Spending Bill Means Big Cuts for New Mexico

Health care. Food. Outdoor recreation. Wildfire protection. The arts. President Trump’s new domestic policy law will have wide-ranging effects in New Mexico, which depends heavily on federal funding.

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Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.”

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Trump Administration Illegally Withheld N.I.H. Funding, Watchdog Finds

Lawmakers from both parties have criticized the White House for halting money for cancer research and other cures.

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.

The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it.

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Senate Passes Its First Spending Bills, but Battles Lie Ahead

Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $488 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the government before a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

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NISAR — a NASA-India Collaboration — Will Study Earth With Radar. Here’s How to Watch the Launch.

A new Earth-observing satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, will be sent into orbit on Wednesday.

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What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

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House Panel Approves Spending Bill That Rejects Some Trump Foreign Aid Cuts

The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee put forth legislation that would slash the foreign aid and State Department budget but salvage some programs that the president wants to defund.

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