David J. Bier You can find my written testimony here. The video below gives my prepared remarks: Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Jayapal, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you…

Patrick G. Eddington Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749 into law on Thursday, May 14, making Virginia one of the latest states to enact an “assault weapons” ban—joining at…

Tad DeHaven President Trump’s latest financial disclosures do not prove that he personally timed investments around his administration’s decision-making.  That’s not the point, though.  Bloomberg reported on May 14 that…

Colleen Hroncich When Valeria Oquendo—known to her students simply as Miss V—finished her education degree in Florida, her plan was to become a public school teacher. But during her internship,…

Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson On May 12, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) filed its second progress report on the refund of illegal tariffs paid by American…

Benjamin Giltner Golden Dome—a project so nonsensical that it shouldn’t require constant criticism to kill it. And yet, here we are. As it turns out, the costs of this project…

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Clark Packard The US government has appealed the Court of International Trade’s May 7 ruling that the 10 percent across-the-board tariffs proclaimed by President Trump under…

Stephen Richer I’ve written previously about affirmative investigations into alleged noncitizen voting. For example, Utah recently audited its 2.1 million voters and found only one noncitizen registered.  These investigations are important because…

Colin Grabow Since the Trump administration waived the Jones Act on March 17 for energy products, fertilizer, and related inputs, the US Maritime Administration has been publishing voyage-level data on…

Thomas A. Berry President Trump has singled out several of the nation’s largest law firms for serious, potentially business-ending sanctions by executive fiat, citing the firms’ past representation of his…