For months, Wall Street investors have been fretting over inflation as the nation’s economy reopens from the pandemic. On Wednesday, the US labour department’s core consumer price index for April could provide the clearest evidence yet that those price pressures could become a mounting threat to the recovery.

"Biden’s '30 by 30' will likely become simply another pork barrel environmental program which deluges their friends and donors with subsidies. But there is no reason to expect 'America the Beautiful' to be less of a debacle than FDR’s farm programs, Eisenhower’s Soil Bank, or the Conservation...

The president is now calling on Congress to approve more than $2 trillion in spending on infrastructure and other projects, as well as $1.8 trillion in investments and tax credits aimed toward children and families.

Officials said that states and territories are not allowed to use the funding to offset tax cuts or make a deposit to a pension fund.

Montana governor Greg Gianforte has had enough of President Joe Biden’s covid relief bills. Instead of paying people to stay unemployed, he’s giving them a bonus for finding work. After scrapping what he called the “impractical government mandates” ...