Tariffs hurt U.S. manufacturing because imports are a critical input into American production. That basic fact is often ignored in trade debates, and it leads to policies that damage the very industries they claim to protect. Roughly half of all U.S. goods imports are not consumer products. They are industrial supplies and capital goods used by American manufacturers to produce goods, expand capacity, and invest in new equipment. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
President Trump closed the year with a clear message on affordability and Making America Great Again. The numbers now back it up. His administration is delivering one of the most aggressive deregulation efforts in modern history, and American workers and families are already seeing the benefits. New data show just how far Washington has shifted away from red tape and toward growth. In a single year, federal agencies finalized 646 deregulatory actions while issuing just five
Colorado Governor Jared Polis just said out loud what many Democrats quietly know. School choice works. That is why Colorado will opt in to President Donald Trump’s new nationwide school choice program. The program was created as a tax credit as part of the Working Families Tax Cut, passed by President Trump and the Republican Congress in July 2025. It is a pro-family reform that directs education dollars to students and parents, not entrenched systems. Polis put it plainly.