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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., emerges from the chamber just after passage of the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Follow the Budget Act and use budget reconciliation this year

President Trump last week suggested that a second reconciliation bill is not needed this year, but because the national debt is at $38 trillion and growing, policymakers need to act with a sense of urgency and use the budget reconciliation process to cut spending and enact important policy reforms.

Illustration on rural hospitals and health care by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. on the cusp of a rural health revolution

It's time to stop seeing the rural health fund as a stopgap and more as the spark of a revolution that could soon lead to a health care overhaul in crucial underserved areas across the United States.

Illustration: Birth right by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

Close the Chinese surrogacy birthright citizenship loophole

When FBI agents raided a nondescript apartment in Arcadia, California, they found 21 infants, a host of nannies and the a sophisticated international operation designed to manufacture U.S. citizens for Chinese nationals.

Alaska and the United States of America  illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

U.S. can not survive without Alaska

After serving in the Revolutionary War, Samuel Wilson went into business for himself as a butcher and meatpacker.

Max Primorac, Milorad Dodik and Bosnia-Herzegovina illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Bosnia-Herzegovina not an extremist state

Recently, we have witnessed synchronized xenophobic attacks on Bosnian-Herzegovinian society, which not so long ago suffered mass murders, expulsions, mass rapes and imprisonment in concentration camps.