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Texas taxable property value is estimated at $4.33 trillion for 2026, up 5.07% after a flat 2025, and the Comptroller moved the same day to stop taxing marketplace platform fees.
A unanimous Sixth Circuit panel held that federal commodities law does not preempt Ohio's and Tennessee's gambling laws as applied to Kalshi's sports contracts.
The Fifth Circuit struck the federal ban on interstate handgun sales in a case brought by a Texas dealer.
Texas joined Florida in asking the Supreme Court to bar statistical estimates from the census.
The Supreme Court stopped lower federal courts from forcing Missouri onto its 2025 map after a voter referendum petition suspended it. Missouri's constitution reserves that power to its people; Texas's does not.
The Supreme Court restored DHS's expanded SAVE citizenship database, which Texas used to check all 18 million registered voters. Travis County told the Court the data flagged citizens as noncitizens.
Texans are told independence would cost them Social Security.
CBO says federal debt reaches 175 percent of GDP by 2056 under current law and 222 percent if rates run a point higher.
The man who wants the Constitution enforced is asking for the ship to be repaired.
The Federal Reserve raised rates a quarter point to 3.75 to 4 percent, its first increase since 2023.
Congress will begin fiscal 2027 on October 1 without any of its 12 spending bills, running on a stopgap through December 11.
The Treasury carries 261.5 million ounces of gold at $42.22 an ounce, about $11 billion. At market prices it is worth about $1.1 trillion.
