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Some 70 percent of the federal budget consists of mandatory spending, and the entire projected increase in the deficit comes from Social Security and Medicare. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Economics , Government

Simplified: The entire projected increase in the U.S. deficit is attributed to Social Security and Medicare.

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3 weeks ago
As Sheppard notes, "deficits are running at 6 percent today, and 3 percent is a level Congress has hit repeatedly." 1.000

👤 Parker Sheppard 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government

Simplified: Parker Sheppard stated that as of September 2026, U.S. deficits are running at 6 percent of GDP.

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3 weeks ago
As things now stand, a bill can spend money in year two and offset it in year nine, and the score comes out balanced. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Policy , Law

Simplified: Current Congressional Budget Office scoring rules allow a bill to be scored as balanced even if it offsets spending in an early year with revenue in a...

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3 weeks ago
Some 70 percent of the federal budget consists of mandatory spending, and the entire projected increase in the deficit comes from Social Security and Medicare. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government

Simplified: Approximately 70 percent of the U.S. federal budget consists of mandatory spending.

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3 weeks ago
In line with this commitment, he just raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, hiking the final figure to between 3.75 percent and 4 percent. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government

Simplified: The Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent.

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3 weeks ago
...pressuring Kevin Warsh, the new Fed chairman, to lower interest rates. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government , People

Simplified: Kevin Warsh is the new chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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Congress passed the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act in 1982, Social Security reform in 1983, and tax reform in 1986, and eventually enabled the surpluses of the late 1990s. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , History , Law

Simplified: Congress passed the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act in 1982, Social Security reform in 1983, and tax reform in 1986.

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3 weeks ago
And it wasn't that Washington ran smaller deficits, either—deficits nearly tripled in the early 1980s. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government , History

Simplified: U.S. federal deficits nearly tripled in the early 1980s.

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3 weeks ago
...overall prices continue to rise much faster than they should, and well above the Fed's 2 percent annual target. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government

Simplified: The Federal Reserve has a 2 percent annual inflation target.

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3 weeks ago
the notice, which ICE investigators Abbi Henry and David Brodie left with Streever's wife on June 23 because he was traveling in Europe at the time. 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: On June 23, ICE investigators Abbi Henry and David Brodie left a warning notice with David Streever's wife while he was in Europe.

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3 weeks ago
The Wall Street Journal reports that ICE "has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet" that tracks online speech to identify more targets. 1.000

👤 The Wall Street Journal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Government , Surveillance

Simplified: The Wall Street Journal reported that ICE uses a "digital dragnet" to track online speech and identify targets.

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3 weeks ago
On the same day that Henry and Brodie visited Streever's home, his complaint notes, they "confronted a Syracuse resident," Paigelynne Gonyea, at a polling place where she was working as a volunteer an... 1.000

👤 David Streever's complaint 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: According to David Streever's complaint, on the same day they visited his home, ICE investigators confronted Paigelynne Gonyea in Syracuse and gave he...

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3 weeks ago
It cited two statutes, one dealing with threats of violence against federal officials, the other making it a crime to reveal "restricted personal information" about them with the intent to intimidate... 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law

Simplified: The ICE warning notice cited two statutes: one concerning threats against federal officials and another about revealing their restricted personal info...

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3 weeks ago
The order remains in effect while the case, Streever v. Mullin, is pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law

Simplified: The preliminary injunction remains in effect while the case Streever v. Mullin is pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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3 weeks ago
"ICE knowingly pursued an American citizen for criticizing his government—speech that is at the heart of the First Amendment," said Adam Steinbaugh, a senior attorney at the Foundation for Individual... 1.000

👤 Adam Steinbaugh 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law , First Amendment

Simplified: Adam Steinbaugh of FIRE stated that ICE knowingly pursued an American citizen for criticizing the government.

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3 weeks ago
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras issued a preliminary injunction that bars the DHS from taking any action against Streever based on that notice and from "issuing similar warnings" that "suggest h... 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law , First Amendment

Simplified: U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras issued a preliminary injunction barring the DHS from acting against David Streever based on the warning notice.

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3 weeks ago
By contrast, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, the DHS response—a "WARNING NOTICE" that two ICE investigators delivered to Streever's home in Rochester, New York, five months later—likely violated the... 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law , First Amendment

Simplified: A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the DHS's "WARNING NOTICE" to David Streever likely violated the First Amendment.

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3 weeks ago
On January 26, two days after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti, David Streever sent an angry email to Todd Lyons, then acting director of... 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement , Protest

Simplified: David Streever sent an angry email to then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons on January 26, two days after DHS employees fatally shot Alex Pretti.

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3 weeks ago
Streever called Lyons "a monstrous human being," likened him to the genocidal Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, and predicted that he would be haunted by "shame at your own pathetic weakness" in defend... 1.000

👤 Jacob Sullum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Free Speech

Simplified: In an email, David Streever called then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons "a monstrous human being" and compared him to Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

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3 weeks ago
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday, which will drive up the cost of borrowing at a time many voters are already paying high rates for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debts. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government

Simplified: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on the Wednesday prior to September 17, 2026.

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3 weeks ago