Tax & Trade
Trump Unveils Data Center Energy Plan in State of the Union
President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to strongly defend his economic record, while Trump touched on retirement savings incentives, congressional stock trading bans, immigration restrictions, tariffs,...
U.S. – Canada Trade Dispute and Domestic Backlash
Relations between the United States and Canada are under significant strain as a sweeping trade dispute centered on tariffs, infrastructure leverage, and broader geopolitical alignments intensifies. At the same time,...
Europe’s Davos Reality Check
This week marked the World Economic Forum’s 56th Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The gathering brought together global leaders, industry executives, and a bipartisan delegation of U.S. governors and lawmakers....
Congress Faces Year-End Crunch as ACA Subsidies Poised to Expire
Thursday afternoon, the Senate rejected two competing measures aimed at addressing the impending expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, making a Jan 1 increase in premiums ever more likely....
Record Shutdown Ends
Last night, the historic 43-day government shutdown finally ended. The final tally was 222 to 209. The House passed legislation that reopens the federal government and funds several agencies but...
White House Freezes Canada Talks, Launches China Trade Investigation
On Friday, President Trump announced he is terminating U.S.–Canada trade negotiations, citing an Ontario government television ad that uses excerpts from a 1987 Ronald Reagan radio address to argue that tariffs harm...
Trade Pressures and Policy Shifts: Insights from Business Leaders Across Sectors
It has been an eventful week in the world of tariffs and trade. From President Trump’s discussion of providing tariff revenue to farmers, the formalization of the US-EU tariff agreement...
Court Rules IEEPA Tariffs Unlawful, but Stays Relief Pending Remand to Trade Court
A late Friday, August 29 ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has declared most of President Donald J. Trump’s global tariffs to be illegal,...
President Trump Levying New Tariffs
By Jack Chandler President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will impose 25% tariffs on goods from Japan and South Korea, and a 50% levy on Brazil, effective August 1st. As well as...