New York City’s budget mess is quickly becoming a warning to every small and family-owned business in the country. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin are pressing Albany to cut the New York City Pass-Through Entity Tax credit from 100 percent to 75 percent. They are presenting the plan as a way to raise new revenue from high earners while the city faces a budget crisis. The political sales pitch is familiar, but the target is far broader than the slogan

The fastest way to make a credit card useless is to let Washington decide who deserves one. A new Committee to Unleash Prosperity analysis reinforces the warning CFE has already made: capping credit card interest rates would hurt the same consumers politicians claim to protect. Supporters may call it relief, but a government cap would push millions of Americans out of the credit market, shrink credit lines, weaken rewards programs, and leave families with fewer safe options w

Hospital giants went before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and showed why Washington’s health care affordability debate should start with the hospital industry. The system pays hospitals more, taxes many of them less, shields them from competition, and then asks patients and taxpayers to cover the bill. The hearing featured CEOs from some of the nation’s largest health systems, including major for-profit and tax-exempt hospital chains. Under questioning from Ways and

Health care fraud is not a paperwork problem. It is a taxpayer rip-off that drains money from patients who need care, providers who follow the rules, and workers who fund the system. At Paragon Health Institute’s National Press Club event, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz laid out the scale of the challenge facing federal health programs. Dr. Oz estimated health care fraud at about $100 billion per year and warned that fraud in Medicare,

The Labor Department just delivered a major win for 401(k) workers, retirees, and Main Street investors. Under the guidance, proxy advisory firms can be treated as fiduciaries under ERISA when they exercise control over shareholder voting rights or provide paid advice to retirement plans about how to vote. That means these firms cannot use other people’s retirement money to push ESG, DEI, or other political agendas. They must act for the financial benefit of workers and retir

Congress should stop treating the Highway Trust Fund like a slush fund. The fund was created to support roads and bridges, paid for largely by drivers through the gas tax. But new analysis from EPIC for America’s David Ditch shows that in fiscal year 2024, roughly $22.4 billion of Highway Trust Fund spending, or 30.1 percent of the total, was diverted away from the nation’s core highway system. Reform should be a top priority when Congress writes the next highway bill in 2026

The Justice Department’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center should force a broader reckoning over how much power corporations gave one activist group to police the nonprofit world. The charges are allegations, and SPLC is entitled to defend itself in court. But the indictment raises a basic question that conservatives have been asking for years: why was SPLC treated as a trusted gatekeeper for charities, platforms, and public debate in the first place? DOJ Alleges

The 340B drug discount program was supposed to help low-income patients get cheaper prescription drugs. Instead, it has become a taxpayer-subsidized profit center for large nonprofit hospital networks that buy drugs at steep discounts, bill insurers and government programs at higher rates, and keep the spread. The Washington Post editorial board’s new op-ed calls the program what it has too often become: corporate welfare for hospitals. The Center for a Free Economy and more

The Center for a Free Economy has been highlighting how the Working Families Tax Cuts are delivering broad relief for workers, families, seniors, small businesses, and family-owned farms. Through a growing series of short videos tied to CFE blog posts, CFE has explained how the law lowers taxes on tips and overtime, strengthens the Child Tax Credit and standard deduction, expands education choice, improves Health Savings Accounts, provides auto loan relief for American-built