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Economist
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Economist
Republicans have a plan to add trillions to the national debt
United States | Elephant dung Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times/Redux/Eyevine May 13th 2025 | WASHINGTON, DC M UCH AS he may wish to, Donald Trump cannot govern through imperial decree alone. Congress is drafting legislation to remake the tax system and alter federal spending—something only it can do. On May 12th Republicans unveiled their new plan. Unfortunately it is a mess. Republicans want to save billions through Medicaid work requirements. Millions could lose coverage He is just making them harder to fix What to listen for in oral arguments over birthright citizenship Replacements, in Greensboro, is an encyclopaedia of tableware The rise and fall of the 'disparate impact' doctrine
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Trump's Tariffs: Anxiety and Assent
Image Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times To the Editor: Re 'Trump Rolls Out Vast New Arsenal of Global Tariffs' (front page, April 3): President Trump has called his announcement on Wednesday of a new round of tariffs on our trading partners 'our declaration of economic independence.' But he went even further with claims that sound wild, hyperbolic and unbelievable. 'April 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn,' he said, 'the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again — gonna make it wealthy, good and wealthy.' The president believes obsessively in the merits of tariffs and sees them as his tool to redress years of what he calls our trading partners' 'ripping us off.' If you go beneath the words and listen to his tone, it's not hard to hear his anger at what he seems to truly believe has been the inequity built into our trade relationships. He doesn't understand that freer, less fettered trade increases the size of the economic pie for all of us to share, ultimately making our slice larger. Experts say that his tariffs, along with the virtually obligatory retaliatory tariffs other countries will impose on our goods, will cost consumers thousands of dollars in purchasing power and effectively act as a kind of tax on us, the American people. Mr. President, while we dearly hope that your view is correct, the experts, and our own common sense, suggest that you are wrong. Ken Derow Swarthmore, Pa. To the Editor: President Trump has used the National Emergency Act as an excuse for the bizarre tariffs he has enacted. The only national emergency we face is his presidency, enabled by a spineless Republican Congress and a billionaire puppeteer. Congress has rolled over and allowed the president to usurp many of its constitutionally designated powers, including the power to impose tariffs. The president inherited one of the strongest economies in the world, and he has begun to either systematically or whimsically destroy it, disrupting the global economy in the process. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
31-03-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Hillary Clinton's Blast at the Trump Administration
Autism Is Not a Disease A Trail of Destruction Image Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times To the Editor: Re 'It's Not the Hypocrisy. It's the Stupidity,' by Hillary Clinton (Opinion guest essay, March 30): Mrs. Clinton's dismay at the Trump administration's panoply of 'dumb' actions is justified and understandable. But this raises the uncomfortable question of whether there is an underlying purpose. These are not random acts of stupidity. They are linked by an apparent intent to destroy the fundamental institutions and values that have defined us as exceptional. America's greatness stems from the strength of our moral, cultural and economic leadership, which these dumb activities systematically undermine. It's not clear whose interests are being served here, but it's certainly not America's. This is simply deplorable. Steven J. Scheinman Skaneateles, N.Y. To the Editor: I read Hillary Clinton's essay, and to me it encompasses our current predicament. To preface my argument, let me say that I baked a Hillary Clinton logo cake on Election Day in 2016, a night that ended with me and every politically active Democratic woman I know crying ourselves to sleep. I supported Hillary. As a child of the 80s, I've looked up to her almost my entire life. But this essay is a disappointment. While it echoes feelings many of us have, it proposes no concrete solutions, offers no action steps. It is a microcosm of the Democratic response across the board to the atrocities of this administration. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
