Democrat-controlled budget office wrongly analyzed Trump’s big bill, missed record savings, White House says

The White House is challenging the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s assessment that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package will raise the federal deficit by trillions of dollars throughout the next decade. The national debt, currently $36.2 trillion, tracks what the U.S. owes its creditors, while the national deficit measures how much the federal…

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Medical professionals say schools have gotten too political, citing ‘unscientific modes of thinking’

Two medical professionals argued in a new report that “medical school has gotten too political,” citing “unscientific modes of thinking.” “Medical students are now immersed in the notion that undertaking political advocacy is as important as learning gross anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology,” the authors wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sally Satel, a lecturer…

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