There is near certainty that Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 will pass through the House of Representatives to become law this coming week after a failed attempt last Thursday in the House Armed Services Committee to pass an amendment to delete it led by Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie.
Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning.
President Donald Trump said in an interview Monday that he was not too concerned with reports that Iran would end negotiations with the U.S. over Israel’s expanded war in Lebanon and admitted that the talks are becoming “very boring.”
“I place little stock in assuming that the most recent runup in [energy] prices is transitory within an acceptable time horizon,” Jeffrey Schmid, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said at a conference in Iceland last month.
About 6.1 million homes were sold in the U.S. in 2021. The number slipped to barely five million in 2022 and stagnated at roughly four million in 2023, 2024, and 2025, according to research service Statista.
New home sales dropped at an annualized rate of 6.2 percent in April from March, with interest rates remaining high, the U.S. census bureau said. The decline was 11.3 percent from April 2025.
American auto companies had expected that sales of new cars – which fell during the COVID War – would steadily climb back to pre-COVID levels.