Tennessee governor backs Trump plan to nix Department of Education, sees bellwether on new school choice bill

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee told Fox News Digital that he believes President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory signals success for a second school choice bill introduced to the state legislature this week after his first proposal failed this year.  Lee said he agreed with Trump’s promises to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, echoing the…

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SCOTT BESSENT: Let’s talk tariffs. It’s time to revitalize Alexander Hamilton’s favorite tool

For months, economic commentators parroted the Harris campaign’s misleading talking point that tariffs are a “sales tax.” Like much of economists’ conventional wisdom, this view is fundamentally incorrect. The reflexive opposition to tariffs represents political ideology and advocacy, not considered economic thought. The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both…

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