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Iran wants a Hormuz toll? Fine. But Trump can’t let it operate in the shadows

Iran wants a Hormuz toll? Fine. But Trump can’t let it operate in the shadows

Nearly eight months into the Iran war, the headlines are about carrier groups and stalled talks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly ordered...

05.10.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

Congress dodged a shutdown. You still paid for it

Congress dodged a shutdown. You still paid for it

Federal offices opened on Thursday without a shutdown, and Washington will treat that as an accomplishment. It should not. The House passed a stopgap...

04.10.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

You’re paying the interest on Trump’s $166 billion tariff refund

Every controller knows the sentence that ends careers: “We booked that as revenue.” For a year, Washington booked tariff collections as revenue....

02.10.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

Congress is hiding Trump’s $45 billion Iran war bill until after you vote

On Nov. 3, voters will decide who controls Congress while the war with Iran is still underway. What they will not decide is how that war gets paid...

30.09.2026 20

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Jose Navarro

Congress pushed a $1.8 trillion spending fight past Election Day. That’s the point

On Sept. 1, the House voted 370 to 48 to fund the federal government through Dec. 11, a stopgap the Senate had already cleared 90 to 6 three weeks...

29.09.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

$42 billion, 19 dead, zero authorization: Trump’s Iran war couldn’t pass a basic audit

On Thursday, the Senate voted 49 to 50 against a resolution directing the president to end U.S. hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorizes them....

28.09.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

America is spending $3 billion a day just on interest. Why is no one running on it?

The national debt passed $40 trillion in August, roughly $117,000 for every U.S. resident. The Congressional Budget Office now projects a $2.1...

28.09.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

Why the Fed’s rate hike just came at the worst possible moment

On Sept. 16, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75% to 4% — its first rate hike in...

27.09.2026 10

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Jose Navarro

The GOP has a Vance-Rubio problem. The solution? Preemptively nuke Gavin Newsom

The Republican Party has a 2028 problem it has not yet solved publicly, and every political operative in Washington knows it. Neither Vice President...

26.09.2026 10

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Jose Navarro