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The Republicans in the House passed their “big, beautiful” budget this week, which has led to a lot of uncertainty among business owners and just about everyone else who doesn’t own a MAGA hat. Will it explode the deficit? Will it lead to a recession? Will the stock market crash?

Our most popular cartoon of the week came from the pen of Ed Wexler, who isn’t only one confused by the bill’s focus on spending cuts and borrowed money to help the wealthiest Americans the most.

R.J. Matson’s cartoon on the bill (and more specifically, Moody’s downgrade) got a chuckle from me. As did Chris Weyant’s cartoon about RFK Jr. inability to discern fantasy from reality.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Ed Wexler

#2. R.J. Matson

#3. Margolis & Cox

#4. Bruce Plante

#5. John Darkow

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Bob Englehart

#8. Bob Englehart

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. Margolis & Cox

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

It was a wild week filled with a lot of news, which included Pete Rose being posthumously unbanned from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Trump defended his decision to accept a $400 million luxury airplane from Qatar.

But our two most-popular cartoons of the week were on wildly different subjects – A.I. and the new pope.

Rick McKee drew our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, which featured a high school graduate’s dependence on ChatGPT, a popular A.I.-powered chatbot that can also create cartoons and steal jobs.

Our second-most reprinted cartoon was Pat Byrnes’ funny cartoon on Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever American pope whose Chicago origins became the fodder for some funny pieces of art.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Rick McKee

#2. Pat Byrnes

#3. Daryl Cagle

#4. Rick McKee

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. Monte Wolverton

#7. R.J. Matson

#8. Dave Whamond

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. John Darkow

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter this year, but don’t blame Trump’s tariffs or all the uncertainly created by his administration during his first 100 days in office. No, according to Trump, this is still the economy of Joe Biden, who hasn’t been president for more than three months.

Our most-reprinted cartoon this week, drawn by Dave Granlund, shows a middle class family alongside other endangered species. Another popular economic cartoon came from Dave Whamond, who knew exactly where to put a cartoon of eggs in the jewelry store.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Granlund

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Bruce Plante

#4. Chris Weyant

#5. Dave Whamond

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. Bob Englehart

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. Daryl Cagle

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Donald Trump generally dominates the headlines, but this week the news topics were all over the place, from taxes to far-off planets where scientists uncovered possible signs of life.

Our most-reprinted cartoon this week was Dave Granlund’s tribute to Pope Francis, who died this week at the age of 88. We had a number of cartoons about Francis, but Granlund’s depiction certainly struck a chord with editors.

Another popular cartoon was Dave Whamond’s funny take on pollen, proving once again everyone cares about the weather.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Granlund

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Margolis & Cox

#5. Harley Schwadron

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. R.J.Matson

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. Dave Whamond

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

There’s a lot of unease in the country at the moment. Whether it’s uncertainty over the impact of tariffs, fears over shuttered and decimated agencies, or unease over how he’s running the government, Donald Trump’s White House is forcing a streak of anxiety over Americans largely just trying to get by.

Nearly all our most-reprinted cartoons this week touch on some impact Trump’s Washington is having on folks. The most-popular was Dave Whamond’s Easter-themed cartoon about the sky-high price of eggs, which have only gone up since Trump took office. But I also loved Rick McKee’s cartoon about a couple on a picnic happy because their cartoon had nothing to do with Trump.

If only we could all live in such bliss.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. John Darkow

#3. Rick McKee

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Dave Whamond

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Margolis & Cox

#10. Pat Bagley

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Donald Trump’s certainly left his mark on the global economy, with his global tariffs continuing to wreak havoc on markets across the world. Here in the U.S., Wall Street has become something of a rollercoaster ride, jumping and falling on every Truth Social post from the president

The interest in everything tariffs was evident this week, as nearly all of our most-reprinted cartoons were about Trump’s tax hike on imported goods. Our most popular cartoon, drawn by Ed Wexler, focused on the poor penguins in Antarctica unexpectedly hit by Trump’s tariffs.

Dave Whamond also drew a pair of popular tariff cartoons – a funny one featuring a keyboard warrior turned tax expert, and another mocking our dwindling 401(k)s. If you haven’t logged into your retirement account lately, don’t start now. I’d wait for all of Trump’s “winning” to kick in.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Ed Wexler

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Harley Schwadron

#6. John Darkow

#7. John Darkow

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. Dick Wright

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

The news was all over the place this week, from Trump’s money-crushing tariffs to continued job cuts across Washington, with some really bad pollen in between.

Dave Whamond drew our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, which focused on the vandalism of Teslas as Elon Musk remains the face of Trump’s job cuts

Another popular cartoon was Bruce Plante’s look at how difficult it is to get a human being to answer the phone following massive layoffs across multiple agencies. Good luck if you need to talk to someone about your taxes.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Bruce Plante

#3. John Darkow

#4. Rick McKee

#5. John Darkow

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. Dick Wright

#9. Gary McCoy

#10. Dave Whamond

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Donald Trump didn’t hide the fact he wanted to shutter the Department of Education while on the campaign trail. Now that he’s president, he’s trying to follow through, though he’ll ultimately need the help of Congress to kill the agency for good.

In the meanwhile, the Education Department announced it was slicing its workforce in half, and cuts could impact everything from student loans to Pell grants to programs like the Rural Education Achievement Program, which helps fun low-income schools in rural areas.

John Darkow’s funny cartoon about an angry kid who thinks school has been canceled because the Education Department is being closed was our most-reprinted cartoon of the week. I also enjoyed Dave Whamond’s cartoon, which used a March Madness bracket to predict with state would be the first to get rid of education entirely.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. John Darkow

#2. Bruce Plante

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Whamond

#5. Dave Whamond

#6. Bill Day

#7. Rick McKee

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Dick Wright

#10. Chris Weyant

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

IRS agents. VA workers. Park rangers. Air traffic controllers. Social Security administrators. No one employed by the federal government appears safe with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency waiving a chainsaw across Washington

Our top two most-reprinted cartoons of the week come from Chris Weyant, and both mock Musk’s blunt and mistake-prone process of trimming the size of the federal workforce. I also enjoyed Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about astronauts returning home after being stuck on the International Space Station, only to find a “Planet of the Apes” scenario playing out in the U.S.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Chris Weyant

#3. Jeff Koterba

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. John Darkow

#6. John Darkow

#7. John Darkow

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Alexandra Bowman

#10. Bruce Plante

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs is causing a melt down on Wall Street, where stocks are plummeting at the economic chaos being caused by his administration.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week were on Trump’s on-and-off approach to tariffs, which is leaving everyone dazed and confused. Jeff Korterba drew a funny cartoon about an Easter bunny already reeling from high egg prices getting hit with tariffs from Trump.

Speaking of eggs, Chris Weyant’s cartoon about a pot of gold being less valuable than a carton of eggs was easily our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, and for good reason. Trump ran for president promising to bring costs down, but the average price of a dozen eggs in the U.S. is up to nearly $6.

I’d suggest pouring yourself a glass of wine, but apparently Trump is going to tariff that, too. The only thing left to do is laugh at the absurdity by checking out our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Jeff Koterba

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Bruce Plante

#6. Ed Wexler

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. John Darkow

#9. John Darkow

#10. John Darkow

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com