Nicole Huyer

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Nicole Huyer is a Senior Research Associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. 

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    Making Government Lean Again: The DOGE Effect

    Nicole Huyer | Christopher Lynch
    As of Jan. 1, 2026, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reports $215 billion in savings, or roughly $1,335 per taxpayer. Established in the early months of the second Trump administration and initially led by Elon Musk, DOGE set out to eliminate waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending. Early results suggest those efforts are…
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    Mamdani’s ‘Free’ Grocery Stores Will Charge New Yorkers Twice Over

    Nicole Huyer
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    Why Americans Are Getting Larger Refunds This Tax Season

    Nicole Huyer
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    Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Proposals Ice Out New York City’s Housing Market

    Nicole Huyer | Camilla Cort
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    Employment Up and Inflation Down, New BLS Report Shows

    Nicole Huyer
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    Mamdani’s Millionaire Tax Would Zap NYC’s Dynamism

    Nicole Huyer | Miles Pollard
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    Trump’s Debt Diet Is Working

    Nicole Huyer
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    How to Help Small Businesses, Hurt Mamdani All at Once

    Miles Pollard | Nicole Huyer
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    The Fed’s Refusal to Cut Interest Rates Is Costing Americans

    Nicole Huyer
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    Why Are Americans Still Feeling the Economic Squeeze?

    Richard Stern | Nicole Huyer
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    Government Delivered Inflation—but No Real Aid—in North Carolina

    EJ Antoni | Nicole Huyer
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    Phoenix on Fire: Rising Prices Burn Arizonans

    Nicole Huyer | Miles Pollard
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    This Calculator Tells You the Size of Inflation’s Bite Into Your Household Budget

    Nicole Huyer | Miles Pollard