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Imposing carbon and gasoline taxes is not about ways to pay for needed government services. It’s about progressives trying to fund their climate change agenda.

If administration officials substitute steel tariffs for quotas, American energy firms would still struggle to secure the parts they need.They could be forced to postpone or cancel many pipeline projects.

The genius of private infrastructure is that we can grow the Texas economy without growing the Texas government. 

Two years after now-President Donald Trump accused him of a connection to the 1963 Dallas assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is somehow magnanimously able to laugh about it. “Oh, yes — I shot J.R.!” he said jokingly in a conversation at a recent Dallas luncheon hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who just won re-election to a third term in the Senate, recently responded to a question from the Cincinnati Enquirer about a presidential bid, “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t considering it.” 

The U.S. economy is growing, in part because of a booming energy industry. Yet, not everyone is pleased and some are looking for and finding ways to throttle fossil fuel production. 

A coalition of organizations is asking President Trump to use his pen and phone, much as Barack Obama did, to fix a requirement that Social Security recipients sign up for Medicare hospitalization insurance.