Joshua Zeitz

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Joshua Zeitz

Waltz wasn’t the first, nor is he likely to be the last. It’s practically a tradition in American politics: Former elected officials, accustomed to being bosses, leap at the prospect of powerful jobs in the executive branch — only to find themselves bristling at their subservience to the awesome power of the president. It’s happened again and again, going back to the Civil War. And again and again, just like with Waltz, it leads to ruin.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Zeitz

$1 Trillion In Economic Damage From U.S. House’s Reconciliation BillThe “One Big Beautiful Bill” moving through the United States House of Representatives is being advertised as an economic engine, but that rhetoric masks its reality. The current bill text would grind our economy to a halt by stealing 830,000 jobs by 2030, costing America more than $1 trillion in …

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Joshua Zeitz

In the end, it wasn’t Signalgate that toppled Mike Waltz, the former national security adviser whom President Donald Trump abruptly fired, though as a concession prize, the onetime congressman was nominated to serve as United Nations ambassador. Instead, according to the Washington Post, the president’s increasing ire at Waltz also owed to Waltz’s hawkish stance on Iran, a position that placed him out of step with the administration.

3 weeks ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Patrick Tucker |Joshua Zeitz |Amy Knight |Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Quotes of the Day:“The world is full of frightened little children. Being frightened, they frighten each other. Try to understand.”– William Saroyan“The library book had been burning a hole in his rucksack; at Oklahoma City he noticed a postal box at the freight depot and, on impulse, dropped the book into it.

1 month ago | politico.com | Joshua Zeitz

It may seem like an unprecedented situation — and in a lot of ways, it is. Never before has an administration used the power of federal funding to attempt a wholesale takeover of a university. But there is some historical precedent for stripping a school of its tax-exempt status — a measure that would have crippling effects, making the university’s endowment income taxable and disallowing donors from claiming charitable exemptions on their gifts.