C alifornia's cannabis excise tax is set to increase from 15% to 19% on all products beginning July 1. It's an increase that some business owners feel would stunt the growth of the state's cannabis industry. People packed in and stocked up at Off the Charts in Manteca on Monday. It's one of the new and few marijuana dispensaries in the city.

This month, however, staff at the State Department have been asked to work long hours to keep Americans overseas safe amid the flaring tensions between Israel and Iran—leaving staffers at the agency feeling insulted that they have been asked to volun The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the tax piece of President Trump’s “big,

President Donald Trump has issued a warning to Congress over his spending megabill as Senate continues its marathon voting session.

Senate Republicans hope they are hours away from passing their massive tax and immigration bill. But the outcome is far from certain.

The Senate is inching toward passage of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which would take until Tuesday morning after Democrats submitted hundreds of amendments.

After President Trump suspended trade talks with Canada over its controversial digital services tax, Ottawa scrapped it to get back to the negotiating table.

Ottawa said Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump had agreed to resume negotiations on a trade agreement and would aim to reach a deal by July 21.

Canada’s decision to withdraw its digital services tax over President Donald Trump’s trade threats will likely embolden the president’s strategy of using tariffs to extract broader concessions from countries.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst has introduced an amendment to the U.S. Senate's tax and spending megabill that would change two of the most contentious parts of that bill and could give a small boost to wind and solar projects that had been targeted in the draft being debated on the Senate floor.

Senate Republicans stunned the power industry over the weekend with a proposed new tax on wind and solar projects, part of a broader push to unravel incentives for renewable energy. Energy tax credits that were expanded during the Biden administration are wrapped up in a fierce Congressional fight over President Trump’s signature tax and spending bill.

The U.S. Senate’s proposed cuts to clean energy subsidies in its version of President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill have drawn searing criticism from business and labor groups since they were unveiled over the weekend,