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Fix it now! President Biden's 2021 Thrifty Food Plan overhaul added $180 billion in costs to the food stamp program, SNAP, without Congress's approval—a "backdoor entitlement expansion."
Now, Congress should rescind this unlawful spending, explains Romina Boccia:
Now, Congress should rescind this unlawful spending, explains Romina Boccia:
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Fix it now! President Biden's 2021 Thrifty Food Plan overhaul added $180 billion in costs to the food stamp program, SNAP, without Congress's approval—a "backdoor entitlement expansion."
Now, Congress should rescind this unlawful spending, explains Romina Boccia:
Now, Congress should rescind this unlawful spending, explains Romina Boccia:
The federal government shouldn’t decide who serves the “public good.”
Public Service Loan Forgiveness gives Washington the power to reward or punish workers based on politics; an unconstitutional and dangerous overreach.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness gives Washington the power to reward or punish workers based on politics; an unconstitutional and dangerous overreach.
Trump's Loan Forgiveness Regs and the Danger of Federally Defined “Public Good”
PSLF is a terrible policy all around. It favors one type of employee over another, fuels college price inflation, enables the executive branch to make political judgments about who serves the nebulous “public good,” and violates the Constitution, which gives the feds no authority to engage in college student lending to begin with. It needs to end.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The federal government shouldn’t decide who serves the “public good.”
Public Service Loan Forgiveness gives Washington the power to reward or punish workers based on politics; an unconstitutional and dangerous overreach.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness gives Washington the power to reward or punish workers based on politics; an unconstitutional and dangerous overreach.
If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis, explains Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Eddington.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis, explains Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Eddington.
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Excessive regulation costs the US hundreds of billions each year. What if AI could fix that?
In a Free Society article, Matthew Mittelsteadt explores how new technology can automate reforms and free innovation from bureaucratic sludge. Read it now: https://ow.ly/NiSl50Xnjn9
In a Free Society article, Matthew Mittelsteadt explores how new technology can automate reforms and free innovation from bureaucratic sludge. Read it now: https://ow.ly/NiSl50Xnjn9
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Excessive regulation costs the US hundreds of billions each year. What if AI could fix that?
In a Free Society article, Matthew Mittelsteadt explores how new technology can automate reforms and free innovation from bureaucratic sludge. Read it now: https://ow.ly/NiSl50Xnjn9
In a Free Society article, Matthew Mittelsteadt explores how new technology can automate reforms and free innovation from bureaucratic sludge. Read it now: https://ow.ly/NiSl50Xnjn9
💸 Why are premiums still rising?
Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 joins the Fresh Freedom podcast to discuss how Obamacare’s structure keeps driving up premiums, and how Congress and President Trump could make insurance work better. Full discussion👇
Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 joins the Fresh Freedom podcast to discuss how Obamacare’s structure keeps driving up premiums, and how Congress and President Trump could make insurance work better. Full discussion👇
Podcast: Obamacare & the Government "Shutdown"
Obamacare is increasing premiums and reducing health insurance quality.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
💸 Why are premiums still rising?
Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 joins the Fresh Freedom podcast to discuss how Obamacare’s structure keeps driving up premiums, and how Congress and President Trump could make insurance work better. Full discussion👇
Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 joins the Fresh Freedom podcast to discuss how Obamacare’s structure keeps driving up premiums, and how Congress and President Trump could make insurance work better. Full discussion👇
Calls for US military action against the cartels have evolved into a push for regime change in Venezuela.
If President Trump pulls the trigger on a “Libya model” intervention, it would risk repeating a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
If President Trump pulls the trigger on a “Libya model” intervention, it would risk repeating a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
Don’t Repeat Libya: The Dangers of US Intervention in Venezuela
A Venezuelan uprising against Maduro would mark a triumph for human freedom, but we shouldn’t use the US military as a tool of their revolution. The United States should resist the urge to repeat history’s mistakes.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Calls for US military action against the cartels have evolved into a push for regime change in Venezuela.
If President Trump pulls the trigger on a “Libya model” intervention, it would risk repeating a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
If President Trump pulls the trigger on a “Libya model” intervention, it would risk repeating a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
Medicare’s spending is on autopilot. 🚨
Each year, hundreds of billions are borrowed to keep the program running.
It’s time to bring choice, competition, and accountability to health care.
Each year, hundreds of billions are borrowed to keep the program running.
It’s time to bring choice, competition, and accountability to health care.
Medicare’s Real Fiscal Crisis Is Much Worse than Trust Fund Insolvency
Why SMI’s autopilot financing is the real debt accelerant.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Medicare’s spending is on autopilot. 🚨
Each year, hundreds of billions are borrowed to keep the program running.
It’s time to bring choice, competition, and accountability to health care.
Each year, hundreds of billions are borrowed to keep the program running.
It’s time to bring choice, competition, and accountability to health care.
After the Supreme Court heard arguments over the president’s use of the IEEPA to impose tariffs, the administration’s warning that removing those tariffs could “lead to financial ruin” remains unsupported.
As Cato’s brief shows, there’s no legal or financial basis for such a claim. 👇
As Cato’s brief shows, there’s no legal or financial basis for such a claim. 👇
Contra White House Claims, Removing IEEPA Tariffs Won’t Spark a Financial Crisis
White House warnings that removing the president’s authority to impose tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act would spark a financial crisis amount to a rhetorical Hail Mary that reflects the poor legal and economic footing of the IEEPA tariff program.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
After the Supreme Court heard arguments over the president’s use of the IEEPA to impose tariffs, the administration’s warning that removing those tariffs could “lead to financial ruin” remains unsupported.
As Cato’s brief shows, there’s no legal or financial basis for such a claim. 👇
As Cato’s brief shows, there’s no legal or financial basis for such a claim. 👇
We’ve hit the longest shutdown in US history.
Federal workers aren’t being paid, SNAP aid is running out, and Washington is deadlocked over costly new spending, including an expansion of Obamacare subsidies for higher-income households.
Romina Boccia & Nicholas Anthony discuss in the Cato Podcast👇
Federal workers aren’t being paid, SNAP aid is running out, and Washington is deadlocked over costly new spending, including an expansion of Obamacare subsidies for higher-income households.
Romina Boccia & Nicholas Anthony discuss in the Cato Podcast👇
What a Long Shutdown It's Been
Featuring Romina Boccia and Nicholas Anthony
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’ve hit the longest shutdown in US history.
Federal workers aren’t being paid, SNAP aid is running out, and Washington is deadlocked over costly new spending, including an expansion of Obamacare subsidies for higher-income households.
Romina Boccia & Nicholas Anthony discuss in the Cato Podcast👇
Federal workers aren’t being paid, SNAP aid is running out, and Washington is deadlocked over costly new spending, including an expansion of Obamacare subsidies for higher-income households.
Romina Boccia & Nicholas Anthony discuss in the Cato Podcast👇
Social Security’s cost-of-living increases are based on an outdated inflation formula that overpays benefits and costs taxpayers billions.
Congress already uses the chained CPI for taxes, why not for spending?
A small fix could mean big savings and more honesty in budgeting.
Congress already uses the chained CPI for taxes, why not for spending?
A small fix could mean big savings and more honesty in budgeting.
Opinion | Social Security Needs a New Inflation Calculator
Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Social Security’s cost-of-living increases are based on an outdated inflation formula that overpays benefits and costs taxpayers billions.
Congress already uses the chained CPI for taxes, why not for spending?
A small fix could mean big savings and more honesty in budgeting.
Congress already uses the chained CPI for taxes, why not for spending?
A small fix could mean big savings and more honesty in budgeting.
Trade has delivered innumerable benefits to U.S. consumers, producers, and workers.
It enables the U.S. economy to harness its strength in advanced manufacturing and skill‐intensive services and fuels the “creative destruction” that breeds innovation and raises living standards.
It enables the U.S. economy to harness its strength in advanced manufacturing and skill‐intensive services and fuels the “creative destruction” that breeds innovation and raises living standards.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trade has delivered innumerable benefits to U.S. consumers, producers, and workers.
It enables the U.S. economy to harness its strength in advanced manufacturing and skill‐intensive services and fuels the “creative destruction” that breeds innovation and raises living standards.
It enables the U.S. economy to harness its strength in advanced manufacturing and skill‐intensive services and fuels the “creative destruction” that breeds innovation and raises living standards.
Emergency tariff powers weren’t needed for any major US diplomatic success, and they’re now harming vital alliances.
The Supreme Court should reject the fiction that IEEPA tariffs strengthen US foreign policy, writes Clark Packard:
The Supreme Court should reject the fiction that IEEPA tariffs strengthen US foreign policy, writes Clark Packard:
IEEPA Tariffs: Not an Essential Foreign Policy Tool
The Supreme Court should reject the fiction that IEEPA tariffs are essential to US foreign policy when they are, in fact, weakening it.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Emergency tariff powers weren’t needed for any major US diplomatic success, and they’re now harming vital alliances.
The Supreme Court should reject the fiction that IEEPA tariffs strengthen US foreign policy, writes Clark Packard:
The Supreme Court should reject the fiction that IEEPA tariffs strengthen US foreign policy, writes Clark Packard:
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Tariffs Case today, one of the most consequential of the term.
The bottom line is simple: Congress never authorized these tariffs, and the Court should strike them down.👇
The bottom line is simple: Congress never authorized these tariffs, and the Court should strike them down.👇
The Supreme Court Should Strike Down the Trump Tariffs
Congress never authorized Trump’s tariffs, and the Supreme Court should strike them down.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Tariffs Case today, one of the most consequential of the term.
The bottom line is simple: Congress never authorized these tariffs, and the Court should strike them down.👇
The bottom line is simple: Congress never authorized these tariffs, and the Court should strike them down.👇
A “temporary” pandemic boost turned into a trillion-dollar habit.
Adam Michel explains how COVID-era Obamacare subsidies now fund households earning as much as $600K while taxpayers foot the bill. Ending them restores fairness & fiscal sanity.
6 reasons Congress should not extend these subsidies👇
Adam Michel explains how COVID-era Obamacare subsidies now fund households earning as much as $600K while taxpayers foot the bill. Ending them restores fairness & fiscal sanity.
6 reasons Congress should not extend these subsidies👇
Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies
Congress can stand up to the insurance industry by letting these temporary COVID-era subsidies expire as scheduled. Or better yet, repeal them entirely. The enhanced subsidies are a costly reminder of how temporary government programs can become billion-dollar permanent entitlements.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A “temporary” pandemic boost turned into a trillion-dollar habit.
Adam Michel explains how COVID-era Obamacare subsidies now fund households earning as much as $600K while taxpayers foot the bill. Ending them restores fairness & fiscal sanity.
6 reasons Congress should not extend these subsidies👇
Adam Michel explains how COVID-era Obamacare subsidies now fund households earning as much as $600K while taxpayers foot the bill. Ending them restores fairness & fiscal sanity.
6 reasons Congress should not extend these subsidies👇
The Trump administration claims striking down tariffs would cripple the president’s ability to negotiate trade deals.
The reality: decades of US free-trade agreements have been concluded without relying on IEEPA-based tariffs or threats of them.
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The reality: decades of US free-trade agreements have been concluded without relying on IEEPA-based tariffs or threats of them.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/inPq50XmL5l
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Trump administration claims striking down tariffs would cripple the president’s ability to negotiate trade deals.
The reality: decades of US free-trade agreements have been concluded without relying on IEEPA-based tariffs or threats of them.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/inPq50XmL5l
The reality: decades of US free-trade agreements have been concluded without relying on IEEPA-based tariffs or threats of them.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/inPq50XmL5l
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the tariffs cases tomorrow. @cato.org filed a brief explaining why Congress never authorized Trump's tariffs. The Supreme Court should strike them down.
November 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the tariffs cases tomorrow. @cato.org filed a brief explaining why Congress never authorized Trump's tariffs. The Supreme Court should strike them down.
The talk of using tariffs to “rescue” US manufacturing is divorced from reality and the evidence. American manufacturing has thrived because of trade, not tariffs.
A Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s emergency tariff powers would strengthen both industry and the rule of law.
A Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s emergency tariff powers would strengthen both industry and the rule of law.
Ending Trump's IEEPA Tariffs Would Bolster Manufacturing and the Rule of Law
Ahead of a Supreme Court case examining the president’s ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Trump administration has attempted to portray the tariffs as necessary to rescue American manufacturing. But the sector isn’t struggling, and tariffs are far more of a hindrance than help.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The talk of using tariffs to “rescue” US manufacturing is divorced from reality and the evidence. American manufacturing has thrived because of trade, not tariffs.
A Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s emergency tariff powers would strengthen both industry and the rule of law.
A Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s emergency tariff powers would strengthen both industry and the rule of law.
If Mamdani's “democratic socialist” platform is implemented, the consequences for NYC residents – economic and social alike – will be disastrous. As Ludwig von Mises might remind us, democratic socialism is still socialism, and “it doesn’t work.”
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November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If Mamdani's “democratic socialist” platform is implemented, the consequences for NYC residents – economic and social alike – will be disastrous. As Ludwig von Mises might remind us, democratic socialism is still socialism, and “it doesn’t work.”
Read more:
🔗 www.cato.org/blog/democra...
Read more:
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Shrinking government is needed, but not like this.
The Trump administration’s impoundments and spending shifts bypass Congress, eroding the very separation of powers that guards our liberty.
The Trump administration’s impoundments and spending shifts bypass Congress, eroding the very separation of powers that guards our liberty.
The Folly of Letting the Executive Control Spending
Don’t trade Article I for short-term wins.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Shrinking government is needed, but not like this.
The Trump administration’s impoundments and spending shifts bypass Congress, eroding the very separation of powers that guards our liberty.
The Trump administration’s impoundments and spending shifts bypass Congress, eroding the very separation of powers that guards our liberty.
For the second time in two years, Cato has sued the DOJ and FBI for records on their use—and abuse—of FISA Section 702 surveillance. The public deserves to know whether this program protects Americans or targets them.
Cato Sues FBI Over FISA Records, Again
Two things are certain. The first is that the FISA Section 702 program is set to expire in late April 2026. The second is that the kind of public interest FOIA litigation Cato is engaged in on this case...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
For the second time in two years, Cato has sued the DOJ and FBI for records on their use—and abuse—of FISA Section 702 surveillance. The public deserves to know whether this program protects Americans or targets them.
Rather than shrinking the H-1B program, policymakers should strengthen it by removing barriers that trap workers. Expanding mobility and streamlining the path to permanent residency benefits both employees and the US economy.
Not Indentured: H‑1B Visa Holders Have Changed Jobs 1.1 Million Times
The government should expand these options rather than try to reduce or eliminate workers who contribute significantly to the fields of science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rather than shrinking the H-1B program, policymakers should strengthen it by removing barriers that trap workers. Expanding mobility and streamlining the path to permanent residency benefits both employees and the US economy.
🕰️ This Sunday, we change the clocks. But maybe it's not just an inconvenience, it’s a health risk.
“Our internal clocks are aligned with the sun, not social schedules,” writes Dr. Jeff Singer. Let’s pick a time and stick with it.
“Our internal clocks are aligned with the sun, not social schedules,” writes Dr. Jeff Singer. Let’s pick a time and stick with it.
Twice-Yearly Time Travel Is Bad for Your Health
Sticking to one time year-round makes sense for sleep, safety, and sanity.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🕰️ This Sunday, we change the clocks. But maybe it's not just an inconvenience, it’s a health risk.
“Our internal clocks are aligned with the sun, not social schedules,” writes Dr. Jeff Singer. Let’s pick a time and stick with it.
“Our internal clocks are aligned with the sun, not social schedules,” writes Dr. Jeff Singer. Let’s pick a time and stick with it.
Washington has “showered” the US steel industry with protection from import competition for decades. Yet the industry continues to struggle, and steel prices in the US are among the world’s highest.
More protectionism will only exacerbate this long-term trend. www.cato.org/blog/folly-a...
More protectionism will only exacerbate this long-term trend. www.cato.org/blog/folly-a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Washington has “showered” the US steel industry with protection from import competition for decades. Yet the industry continues to struggle, and steel prices in the US are among the world’s highest.
More protectionism will only exacerbate this long-term trend. www.cato.org/blog/folly-a...
More protectionism will only exacerbate this long-term trend. www.cato.org/blog/folly-a...
Europeans have the resources capable of deterring a Russian ground invasion, explains Cato’s policy analyst Benjamin Giltner. To accomplish this, European nations should undertake four steps.
Check out this policy analysis to learn more.
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Check out this policy analysis to learn more.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Europeans have the resources capable of deterring a Russian ground invasion, explains Cato’s policy analyst Benjamin Giltner. To accomplish this, European nations should undertake four steps.
Check out this policy analysis to learn more.
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Check out this policy analysis to learn more.
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