Democrats will "never" see US president Donald Trump's tax returns, said White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a new front opened in the confrontation between the administration and Congress.

Republicans aren’t preparing for another shutdown because they don’t want to believe that one is possible — but that’s what they thought last time too, says Ramesh Ponnuru.

Ireland’s corporate tax regime faces unprecedented challenges, starting tomorrow with a meeting of EU finance ministers that seeks to advance the cause of a common digital tax, while the shape of the overhaul in US tax code should become clearer after president Donald Trump’s legislative weekend success in the US Senate.

Wall Street has finished November with a broad rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its biggest gain since March and pushed it past the 24,000 mark for the first time.

Donald Trump’s habit of appointing military men — James Mattis, HR McMaster, and John Kelly are in situ; Mike Flynn has left — may dilute civilian oversight, says Peter Apps. 

US senators like to participate in governing, as opposed to showing up and having their vote tallied in support of their party and Trump would do well to remember that says Jonathan Bernstein.

Donald Trump has tweeted that the US government "needs a good shutdown" in September to fix a "mess" in the Senate, signalling his displeasure with a temporary spending Bill that Republican congressional leaders - and the president himself - are praising as a major accomplishment.