David Ditch On September 30, $810 million in appropriated fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending expired because of a Trump administration maneuver known as a pocket...
Katherine Thompson President Trump wants Congress to deliver both a $1.5 trillion defense budget and emergency funding for the Iran war this year. As...
Marcos Falcone On October 4, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2023), won the first round of the presidential election...
Stephen Richer For much of the past two years, the debate over noncitizen voting has started from one seemingly uncontroversial premise: federal law makes...
Tad DeHaven and Chad Smitson Two more federal equity deals with private companies were announced in September. That brought the total figure in Cato’s...
Jeffrey Miron The Trump Administration recently weakened the Endangered Species Act. A new paper suggests that, for advocates of increased housing development, these lessened...
Jai Kedia Congress requires that the Federal Reserve submit a Monetary Policy Report semiannually. Along with the report, the Fed chair testifies on the...
Colleen Hroncich Today, October 1, the Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations for the new federal scholarship tax credit (FSTC), which was created...
Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller The 10-year Treasury yield exceeded 5.3 percent yesterday—its highest intraday level since 2002. It has risen by roughly half...