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‘Big, beautiful’ price tag: Congressional Budget Office pegs Trump tax bill at $2.4T

WASHINGTON — The House-passed budget reconciliation bill would increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over a decade and ultimately result in nearly 11 million individuals losing access to health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The new numbers are largely in line with preliminary estimates but nonetheless could complicate the path forward for President Donald

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Ticker: EU preparing tariff ‘countermeasures’; Home cooking on the rise

The European Union on Monday said it is preparing “countermeasures” against the United States after the Trump administration’s surprise tariffs on steel rattled global markets and complicated the ongoing, wider tariff negotiations between Brussels and Washington. Last week, ahead of Friday’s surprise announcement, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Donald Trump