House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain marked Tax Day on Wednesday with a roundtable featuring lawmakers, workers, small business owners, manufacturers, farmers, and tax professionals who said the Working Families Tax Cuts, passed last year, increased refunds, reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay, and provided relief for small businesses during the first filing season under the law.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said President Donald Trump could continue the U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz “indefinitely.”
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used Tax Day to unveil an annual tax on high-value properties owned by people who do not live in the city full-time, framing the measure as part of his broader effort to raise taxes on wealthy residents and property owners.
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You’ve heard it from the whole spectrum of Democrats—from the rich hypocrites like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and to hapless spenders like Joe Biden who are just horrible with money. They all declare that the wealthy need to “pay their fair share” in taxes.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated a proposal to tax luxury second homes owned by the ultra-wealthy, a plan expected to generate at least $500 million annually.Earlier in the day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes in New York City valued at $5 million or more, allowing the city to impose an annual surcharge on ultra-wealthy nonresidents.The proposal is projected to generate at least $500 million annually, according to Hochul.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday she regretted “hurtful” remarks about a colleague, apologizing in a court-issued statement after seemingly taking aim at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s perspective on immigration enforcement.
Congress should let the executive keep fighting terrorism and give recent reforms more time to work.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be restored as early as July, signaling a rapid pivot by the Trump administration after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s IEEPA-based tariffs earlier this year, forcing the administration to turn to other trade authorities.”We had a setback at the Supreme Court in terms of the tariff policy,” Bessent said Tuesday at an event hosted by the Wall Street Journal.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan escalated his attacks on fellow Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer on Wednesday, accusing the billionaire former hedge fund manager of attempting to use his wealth to buy the California governor’s office despite a record that Mahan argued conflicts with Steyer’s current political message.
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‘Palatable to white power structures’
First lady Melania Trump delivered a plea to lawmakers on Wednesday, demanding “action over awareness” to secure the futures of America’s foster children by turning her recent executive action into permanent law.During a bipartisan congressional committee meeting, Trump outlined her vision to transform vulnerable youth into financially independent business owners, explaining the American dream should be “their birthright.
FIRST ON FOX: Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger has been asked not to release yet another criminal illegal immigrant as northern Virginia, a major suburb of Washington, D.C., continues to be rocked by a migrant crime spree.Fox News Digital has learned that the Department of Homeland Security has asked Spanberger and “sanctuary politicians” in Arlington, Virginia, to honor a U.S.
‘They’ve come down substantially’
‘You made antitrust history today’
She’s accused of spying on her husband through a listening device
It’s time to cut bait.
‘Rubbed her disgusting vagina on my face’
‘I want to be uncontroversial’
A handful of Democrat-dominated states rank at the bottom of economic prosperity and competitiveness as they continue to push progressive policies onto taxpayers.
The anniversary of Hollywood’s worst newspaper movie.
Here’s how to fix overcomplexity at the IRS and give Americans a tax system they can believe in.
What neither man has done well is resist the pull of unnecessary personal combat.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Connecticut and its city of New Haven, arguing that their sanctuary policies interfere with federal enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.The lawsuit names Connecticut, its Gov. Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong, as well as New Haven and its Mayor Justin Elicker as defendants.
It may have been possible to bequeath this as “expulsion week.”Instead, this might be “resignation week.”The House has only expelled six Members in the history of the republic. But it was possible as recently as Monday that the House was primed to wrestle with a mind-boggling four expulsions.It takes a two-thirds vote to expel a Member. The House last expelled one of its own in late 2023: former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.).
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said that the Iranian regime “can, on some level of truth, say, we just took on America and Israel and fought them to a tie, although maybe
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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) argued that America has “spent 75 years trying to say, with all our flaws, and God knows we’ve got a lot of flaws, we were the good
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His friends seemed to offer him Adderall while he deteriorated
The more of the world’s oil market that is controlled by the U.S., the better, and it seems as though Donald Trump is aware of this fact.
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On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz said that Iran has “radical actors…who solely exist to export the revolution.” “But we do think we’re dealing with some rational actors.
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‘The actual contribution of the U.S.