Axios chief economic correspondent Neil Irwin speaks to Bipartisan Policy Center executive vice president and J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy chair Dennis Shea about how to expand housing supply and financial security across communities through public-private partnerships, policy and economic mobility.

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Axios senior economics reporter Courtenay Brown speaks to Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) about policy solutions to help Americans overcome hurdles to homeownership.

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📈 While the market is partying like it’s 1999, investors would be smart to remember what came next: the 2000 dotcom bubble, when stock prices rose substantially above underlying asset values, resulting in a market crash.

WHY IT MATTERS: Wall Street analysts are increasingly noting signals of a bubble, as stocks are priced to perfection while uncertainty remains on the political and economic fronts.

BY THE NUMBERS: The Nasdaq 100 has gone 60 trading days without closing below its 20-day moving average, according to financial services firm BTIG.

*This is not financial advice, and past performance is not indicative of future results.

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"You can't play a game, you can't win a war ... if you don't have an offense," Sen. Elissa Slotkin told Stephen Neukam during Axios’ New Shapers event Wednesday (7/23).

Asked what her vision of the Democratic Party should be centered around, Slotkin pointed to the economy, the cost of living and what she sees as "the existential issue of our time": a shrinking middle class.

She drew a connection between progressive New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani's primary win and Trump's return to power.

"The Trump victory is the same message from, I think, [Mamdani's] victory, which is cost of living and the economy is the driving issue for the average person," she said.

CONTEXT: Slotkin has pitched an economic war plan for her party that focuses on lifting up the middle class — even if it means slaughtering some "sacred cows to do so," per a recent speech at the Center for American Progress.

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Axios hosts a News Shapers event in Washington, D.C., featuring conversations with key lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, what's next for the remainder of the year and priorities heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

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At an Axios News Shapers event Wednesday, Sen. Thom Tillis said that the Trump administration should “release the damn” Jeffrey Epstein files as the best way to put the whole issue in the rearview.

WHY IT MATTERS: The Justice Department’s handling of evidence in the case driven the most enduring conflict between Trump and his MAGA base of this term — and the fallout has has roiled Congress.

“It makes no sense to me,” Tillis told Axios’ Stef Kight at an Axios News Shapers event Wednesday, referring to the administration’s refusal to share the files.

“Either it’s a nothing burger ... or it’s something really disturbing, and that’s actually even a more compelling reason to release it,” he said.

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Axios hosts a News Shapers event in Washington, D.C., featuring conversations with key lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, what's next for the remainder of the year and priorities heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

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Many medical school students will feel a financial squeeze from President Trump’s tax-and-spending bill due to a new $200,000 cap on student loan borrowing and the cancellation of a federal program that helps defray their living expenses during school.

WHY IT MATTERS: The country is projected to face a shortage of 187,130 doctors by 2037.

The concern within medical professions is the cutbacks will make it harder to afford a medical education and drive up debts — especially for low-income students and people from other underrepresented backgrounds.

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President Trump’s plan to deport “millions” of immigrants has reached a critical point: Its success likely will depend not on removing criminals, but on telling people who are in the U.S. legally they’re no longer welcome.

WHY IT MATTERS: For all the showy raids and tough talk, the largest targets in Trump’s crackdown include immigrants who’ve had temporary protection to stay in the U.S. — more than 1.2 million people who fled wars, oppression, natural disasters, poverty and more.

ZOOM IN: Under Joe Biden and previous presidents, the U.S. gave temporary protective status (TPS) to such immigrants, allowing them to stay in the U.S. and work for up to 18 months, which could be extended repeatedly.

Trump’s administration is allowing those TPS deals to expire — for more than 700,000 immigrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Honduras and Nicaragua so far, with other countries’ renewal deadlines looming.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-strategy-deport-legal-immigrants

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