
The Government's Confidence Slide May Be Less Than It Looks
Gallup's new numbers show a sharp drop in trust in Washington, but the partisan split and a stubborn 49-point power gap tell a more complicated story.
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How federal decisions reach the economy: tariffs, tax provisions, antitrust actions, subsidies and regulatory costs traced to industries and payrolls.

Gallup's new numbers show a sharp drop in trust in Washington, but the partisan split and a stubborn 49-point power gap tell a more complicated story.

Winning a monopoly case is the easy half; the fight over what the court actually orders is where remedies live or die.

The rules a department writes reach farther than any law Congress passes this year.

An executive order runs the executive branch. It cannot write law, spend money, or survive a court that says it exceeds the president's authority.

A fixed statutory clock decides most foreign-investment cases, and a 2025 policy memo now sorts which deals move fast and which face a wider net.

The June 1, 2026 proclamation modifying Section 232 duties on steel, aluminum and copper cuts rates for some products and removes others entirely, with an August 6 effective date.