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Elon Musk’s replacement is busy with mass deportation, while simultaneously running an investment firm managing public union pension funds.

On our live show, David, Maureen Tkacik, and James Baratta discuss the transforming of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into an agency in name only.

Today on TAP: Trump may succeed in isolating Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and taking over the Fed himself, but the result would crash the economy.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on life support, and consumer scam complaints are surging as a result. The Trump administration wants to pull the plug.

The Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.

Changes to FEMA could cost the state billions as climate-driven disasters intensify.

Today on TAP: He proposed a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian imports unless they stop trying to hold Bolsonaro accountable for his attempted coup.

Judges and administrative procedures make it hard to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.

How the Keystone State handles a shortfall in Philadelphia could prove decisive for urban mass transit.

Several red states, pressed on by Koch-funded conservative groups, are moving to enact flat taxes or eliminate income taxes altogether.

Today on TAP: The Court uses a backdoor procedure to allow Trump to get rid of civil service employees at will.

Now independent union leader Dan Osborn, who nearly won a U.S. Senate race in 2024, is vying for his seat.

The most powerful newspaper in America doesn’t care about American democracy.

Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.

Today on TAP: On horseback, with armored vehicles, Trump’s troops stomp through L.A.’s MacArthur Park.

Essential education programming for children in underserved communities is threatened by the proposed elimination of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.

Scenes of a city under siege

Trump’s tariffs aren’t helping America. But they are helping someone else.

Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.