Tiana Lowe

Washington, D.C.

Commentary Writer at Washington Examiner

Columnist @DCExaminer, @TheFirstonTV. Formerly @NRO, @USC_Econ Review. Kafkaesque. Don't say I didn't warn you. ig: @TianaTheFirst

Articles

Economic isolation started Iran’s self-inflicted military wounds

1 week ago | gazette.com | Tiana Lowe

Israel's preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off Iran's possession of nuclear weapons, it's all set the stage for the Iranian regime's deep vulnerability. This would have been unthinkable as recently as 2023, between President Donald Trump's first and second nonconsecutive terms.
Scott Bessent is winning Treasury’s debt ceiling race against time

2 weeks ago | gazette.com | Tiana Lowe

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Scott Bessent is winning Treasury’s debt ceiling race against time

2 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Tiana Lowe

Since the start of President Donald Trump's second term, the weight of the world, or at least of global markets, international trade, and geopolitical relations, has fallen on the shoulders of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose portfolio spans everything from China tariffs to bond auctions. But Bessent's toughest negotiating partner is probably not Chinese President Xi Jinping, the European Union, or any other foreign power.
Real wages up 1.3%, inflation down 20% since Trump took office

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Despite widespread anticipation that the president’s universal 10% tariff on imports would soon trickle down into consumer prices, inflation continued to decelerate in May, with Consumer Price Index inflation down 20% since President Donald Trump took office. That has translated to a pay raise for workers. After falling more than 4% throughout former President Joe Biden’s administration, real average weekly wages are up 1.3% in the first five months of Trump’s second term.
Bishop Robert Barron won’t bend Christian social teaching to socialist demands

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Tucker Carlson has long railed against credit card interest rates, repeatedly invoking historical prohibitions on usury as reason to ban current lending practices. When he proposed to his latest podcast guest that the proper punishment for contemporary creditors is “prison,” he probably didn’t expect pushback from a Catholic bishop.
Steel tariffs won't work this time, either

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

President Donald Trump’s administration recently raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%, less than three months after imposing a 25% tariff on them. But like the overall Trump policy, the steel and aluminum tariffs won’t help the United States economically. The June 3 move was a not-too-subtle rebuke to a federal court striking down Trump’s broader tariff regime, a May 29 decision by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York.
Ron Johnson’s demand for a return to pre-pandemic spending levels is a nonstarter

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) achieved the seemingly impossible in getting President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” across the finish line with a one-vote margin. However, Trump’s legislative legacy only passed the lower chamber with the promise to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks that the Senate would expedite and expand Medicaid reforms and the reversal of former President Joe Biden’s green energy credits.
Don’t kill the ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ but do downsize the deficit growth

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Defying the laws of political gravity, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrangled a razor-thin Republican majority to pass the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” by a single-vote margin. The 215-214 score included most House Republicans, ranging from the SALT RINOs, or Republicans in name only, representing blue state districts to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks. The outcome was enabled by the macabre misfortune of three House Democrats dying since the 119th Congress opened on Jan. 3.
Gallup shows transgender activists set GOP support for gay marriage back a decade

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

The most promising moment for proponents of gay marriage in 2015 was not actually the Supreme Court‘s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which dubiously but definitively claimed that marriage equality was protected by the 14th Amendment. Rather, it was the moment Donald Trump, that thrice-married Manhattanite with a lengthy history of donating during the AIDS crisis and supporting domestic partnerships as far back as 2000, came down the escalator and announced his candidacy for president.
Dying Democrats gifted Trump his 'big, beautiful bill'

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book has finally given liberals the permission to admit that former President Joe Biden indeed lost whatever marbles he once had long before he maintained that he was mentally fit for a second term in the White House, and nearly five years after the release of Hunter Biden’s pornographic personal laptop, the rest of the press is finally able to admit that the Biden family isn’t exactly the most ethical bunch.