How the 2024 presidential candidates talk about taxes and budget challenges — a voters' guide
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Soon after inauguration, the next president will be steering the toughest budget debates in decades, as individual tax rates expire and the debt limit will have to be suspended or raised.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans have already tangled this year over the debt limit, and what's coming is likely even more daunting. A general "erosion of governance" concerned Fitch Ratings enough to cause analysts to cite it as one reason for dinging the U.S' sterling creditworthiness, knocking down U.S. debt from the gold-standard "AAA" rating to an "AA."
After four days of voting, with more than 400 million people eligible across 27 countries, European voters have pulled the bloc's 720-seat parliament farther to the right than it has ever been. The European Parliament, for the next five years, will now have a record number of far-right legislators. Far-right parties made gains in Europe's top three economies — Germany, France and Italy — with gains by politicians who campaigned against immigration, against support for Ukraine and against climate policy.
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is typically a springboard for the company to announce new tech features for its software programs, and not as flashy as its yearly September event to trumpet its latest iPhone rollout. But this year, the WWDC could be a make-or-break moment for the tech giant.