(The Center Square) – In President Donald Trump’s first year in office, illegal border crossings in Arizona plummeted to record lows. They represent roughly a 92% drop from illegal entries and a record number of gotaways reported in Arizona during the Biden administration. Under the Trump administration, illegal entries in Arizona this year were 66% […]
(The Center Square) – According to an analysis of migration data from the three most populous states, more Californians and Floridians are moving to Texas than Texans are moving to those states. Overall, the majority of out-of-state movers relocating to Texas are leaving Democratic-led states that have higher state income taxes and more progressive tax […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois‘ initiative to boost the amount of state contract money it awards to businesses owned by racial minorities and women continues to struggle despite the tens of millions of dollars the state has spent. This month, the number of those businesses that are certified for preference in state contracting dropped again, […]
Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler is projecting optimism during the holiday season for America’s small businesses. Loeffler and the SBA have pointed to rising small business optimism and consumer sentiments in December. Loeffler said the upward trends are thanks to the tax cuts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in an interview on […]
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) forecasted Democrats would take back the House in the 2026 midterm elections, railing against congressional Republicans for following what President Donald Trump “insists that they do.” Pelosi, the first female House speaker, announced she would not seek reelection to Congress in November, but with about a year left in […]
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and X CEO Elon Musk are trading barbs on social media after Musk took aim at Mamdani’s pick to lead the New York City Fire Department. Mamdani tapped Lillian Bonsignore, a retired EMS chief and former EMT, to be his FDNY commissioner on Dec. 23. The move brought backlash […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence has suddenly found himself at the center of one of the biggest intraconservative fights of President Donald Trump’s second term. Pence was once the bridge between Trump’s populism and an older strain of American conservatism dating back to Ronald Reagan’s administration when the two became the Republican presidential ticket in […]
January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in three days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, though January’s payment will go out on Dec. 31. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, the latter being the […]
The first round of January Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in 17 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Jan. 14. The second round of payments will be sent out on Jan. 21 to recipients […]
President Donald Trump faced a barrage of lawsuits challenging his agenda during his first year back in the White House, but many of those legal battles turned into victories at the Supreme Court. The various lawsuits launched against the Trump administration led to an unprecedented number of injunctions by federal district courts, creating an unusually […]
