President Donald Trump’s global tariffs on imports from other nations will lower U.S. deficits by $3 trillion if they are kept in place through 2035—a decrease from a $4 trillion estimate in August, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced on Nov. 20. The CBO said its estimates are based on tariffs implemented between Jan.

President Donald Trump is calling for a federal standard on artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent U.S. states from regulating the technology themselves, even as Republican lawmakers voted to remove similar language from the president’s flagship funding bill earlier this year. On Nov. 18, Trump wrote on social media that AI investments are “helping to make

The Trump administration announced on Nov. 20 that it was approving new oil drilling leases off the coasts of California, Florida, and Alaska, as President Donald Trump seeks to surge U.S. oil production to reduce energy costs. The Department of the Interior said Thursday that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum had signed an order, “Unleashing American

The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 19 temporarily paused an order that restricts the use of force by federal immigration agents in an illegal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, calling it “too prescriptive” and “overbroad.” The federal appeals court also warned against “overreading” its ruling and said a rapid appeal process

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on Nov. 19 that it had authorized exporting tens of thousands of American advanced artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor chips to two companies in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The microchips will go to G42, a state-run AI company in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, and Humain, a

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Nov. 18 that the backlog of Veterans waiting for compensation and pension benefits has dropped by more than 57 percent since President Donald Trump took office in January. The VA defines compensation or pension benefits as backlogged once they have been pending for more than 125 days.

President Donald Trump on Nov. 14 withdrew the nomination of Donald L. Korb, a veteran tax attorney, to serve as the top lawyer for the IRS. “Please be advised that I am withdrawing the nomination of Donald Korb to be Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury,” Trump wrote in a social media