Janet Lynn Stumbo leaned on her cane and surveyed the two dozen or so voters who had convened in a small Appalachian town to meet with the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.

"The Republican Party may be picking a fight with the bond market," economist Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research wrote in a May 22 analysis. "The fact that [the tax cut bill] will add trillions of dollars ...

It was just past 3 a.m., a few hours before the House vote on President Donald Trump's top priority in Congress, his “big, ...