POLITICS
Kamala Harris proposed a plan to help small business owners. Trump’s plan could send their costs through the roof.
| October 17, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris intends to support small business owners and entrepreneurs by reducing their expenses and increasing their access to capital. Trump’s tariff proposal, however, could cause small businesses’ costs to rise.
Colin Allred knocks Ted Cruz as ‘all hat, no cattle’ during Texas debate
| October 16, 2024
Rep. Colin Allred and Sen. Ted Cruz met on Tuesday for the only debate of their closely-contested Senate race in Texas.
Your F-150 or Camry could cost tens of thousands of dollars more under Trump’s tariff plan
| October 16, 2024
Trump’s proposed tariff of between 100% and 2,000% on foreign-made cars entering the US would raise prices on both domestic and imported cars and “likely send thousands of US workers to the unemployment line,” according to Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
Trump’s tariff plan would raise prices and ‘reduce the living standard of Americans,’ economists say
| October 16, 2024
Trump’s plan would effectively be a sales tax that disproportionately harms working-class families and could cause a trade war that hurts US companies, economists say.
Political grudges, conspiracy theories could undermine disaster relief under Trump
| October 15, 2024
Donald Trump’s history of punishing disloyalty and Republicans’ amplification of conspiracy theories could undermine disaster relief efforts if Trump is elected to a second term in the White House.