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U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Tariff worry on Wall Street pressures Trump to speed up tax cuts

By Nancy Cook and Bloomberg

Donald Trump points to the crowd during the State of the Union address in February 2025

Trump team tests job candidates by asking who won the 2020 election

By Nancy Cook, Saleha Mohsin, and others

Scott Bessent, founder and chief executive officer of Key Square Group LP, during an interview in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, June 7, 2024.

Trump team prepares to announce Scott Bessent as Treasury pick

By Saleha Mohsin, Nancy Cook, and others

Donald Trump

Trump calls for presidential influence over interest rates, Fed policy

By Josh Wingrove, Nancy Cook, and others

Kamala Harris speaks at podium

Kamala Harris has these 3 men on her short list of potential running mates

By Nancy Cook, Josh Wingrove, and others

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Donald Trump met with Elon Musk as Republican presidential frontrunner looks to woo donors to his cash-strapped political operation

By Nancy Cook, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

Karine Jean-Pierre Holds Daily White House Press Briefing

White House claims student-debt relief will cost about $24 billion per year, way lower than outside estimates

By Nancy Cook, Justin Sink, and others

President Joe Biden

Personal Finance

Biden is expected to finally reveal his student debt relief measures on Wednesday

By Nancy Cook, Josh Wingrove, and others

President Joe Biden

Biden says inflation is ‘hurting’ U.S. families, blames pandemic

By Nancy Cook and Bloomberg

U.S. President Joe Biden

Biden says the U.S. will send an additional $1.3 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine

By Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

President Joe Biden

Biden to nominate Michael Barr as the Federal Reserve’s chief banking supervisor

By Nancy Cook and Bloomberg

US President Joe Biden convenes a virtual Covid-19 Summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, on September 22, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC. – Biden urged leaders at summit to make sure 70 percent of their populations are covered by next September. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Meet the Biden tax reform advisor who literally wrote the memo on ‘How to Tax the Rich’

By Nancy Cook and Bloomberg

House Democrats have drafted a package of tax increases that falls short of President Biden’s ambition, an acknowledgment of how politically precarious the White Houses $3.5 trillion economic agenda is for party moderates. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden promise to cut inequality stumbles as House Democrats spare the rich

By Nancy Cook, Mike Dorning, and others

Members of the Los Angeles Tenants Union protest against evictions and give out food for the homeless on February 8, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden’s allies fume over President’s slow action to extend eviction moratorium

By Nancy Cook, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the front lawn of the White House on the ongoing Covid-19 response, in Washington, DC.<br />
(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Estate-tax hike is off the cards in Biden’s latest economic plan, reversing a campaign pledge

By Nancy Cook, Laura Davison, and others