Aaron Kessler

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  • Affordable housingReal Estate

    ‘Just another nail in the coffin for rural areas’: Affordable housing program faces the axe under Trump’s tax, budget cuts

    By Charlotte Kramon, Jesse Bedayn, and others
  • Donald Trump speaksPolitics

    Donald Trump’s monthly legal expenses dip below $1 million for the first time in 2 years

    By Aaron Kessler, Richard Lardner, and others
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    All the lawsuits Donald Trump is battling forced him to spend $76 million in the last 2 years alone

    By Richard Lardner, Aaron Kessler, and others
  • FILE – A portion of a Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Application Form is seen in Washington on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. An Associated Press analysis published on Monday, June 12, 2023, found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents a jarring 10 percent of the total $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID-relief aid. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow, File)Finance

    How $400 billion in COVID-19 aid was stolen or wasted, by everyone from social security fraudsters to Texas pastors

    By Aaron Kessler, Richard Lardner, and others

  • Congress’s other last-minute fail: Chinese drywall regs

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