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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As the admin comes to its first major trade deal, we looked at US trade with the UK—our largest trading partner with whom we're generally a net exporter (by a fairly narrow margin, though!) www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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The U.S.-U.K. Trade Relationship Is Unique. Here’s Why.
Cars, oil , aircraft parts and pharmaceuticals are among the goods crossing the Atlantic between the countries.
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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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John West @johnwest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My colleagues, @ceostroff.bsky.social, Shane Shifflett, and James Benedict have a fantastic look at DOGE's savings claims: "A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and ‘woke’ cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
While DOGE hasn’t offered details about all of the stated savings, it has posted a list of more than 1,100 canceled contracts to its website. As of Friday, it said the savings from these contracts amounted to about $7 billion. 

The Journal analysis projects the actual savings could be closer to $2.6 billion over the next year if spending levels remained constant—and about 2% of the funds would have gone to contracts related to DEI.

Research-focused agencies were among the top targets for cuts, including the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, where DOGE terminated contracts costing the government more than $900 million last year.

DOGE terminated more than 60 Health and Human Services contracts including a clinical evaluation of an Alzheimer’s and traumatic brain injury drug and a study of smokers with chronic lung disease. DOGE described these as “administrative expenses.”
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