Government spending

What matters is that the American economy is in trouble and hard-working families are feeling the pain.

A closer look shows that Skinny BBB would prove inflationary, at least for the next few years.

These ridiculous COVID spending examples should be a basic reminder for lawmakers: respect America's taxpayers and apply some critical thinking to your spending choices.

One wonders what the Democrats in charge of the party's economic program are thinking—if they indeed think at all.

If President Biden wants to reverse his political fortunes, he should abandon current policies that will only drive prices even higher and work to get spending and federal regulations under control.

I am writing this on April Fool's Day. That may be the perfect day to try to explain how impossible, and indeed foolish, the newest Joe Biden tax proposal is.

Just one year into near-uniform left-wing control of our government, Americans are waking up to the cruel outcomes of "progressive" policies.

A gargantuan defense budget doesn't necessarily buy the American people more security.

We can never be a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" without an informed and engaged citizenry.

Though costly, the senator stated that both sides of the political spectrum seemed to be in favor of supporting Ukraine.

Navy officials told lawmakers that they take responsibility for the fuel spill. The Navy reported the spill was likely due to "operator error."

States have repeatedly tried this approach, always with the false promise that sometime tomorrow, the middle class will benefit from today's tax cuts for businesses and the wealthiest people.

The $21.3 billion deficit reported for December is the smallest since December of 2019, when one of the last pre-pandemic months posted a $13 billion deficit.

If policymakers hope to deliver, they'll have to address inflation's root causes and not paper over its symptoms.

"As the Delta and Omicron variants have illustrated, pandemic response needs will continue to evolve," Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said Thursday.

Despite repeated warnings from Social Security's trustees that the program is facing a financial shortfall, lawmakers have reached a bipartisan consensus to kick the can down the road.

For the October-November period, the U.S. budget deficit amounted to $356.4 billion, a 17 percent decrease from the same period in 2020.

Some Republican senators have voiced their opposition to allowing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling.

Congressional Democrats are willing to throw their seats away in the next election by sticking with Biden's program.

Democrats designed key provisions to sunset at various times over the next several years, while keeping many of the plan's funding mechanisms in place.

The only real disagreements between the major parties are over who can best manage the global empire abroad and the provider state at home.

Democrats are reportedly aiming to include four weeks of paid family leave in their massive social safety net package.

"I promise you—I guarantee you—we're going to get free community college in the next several years and across the board," Biden said.

The American people are rejecting this spending binge because it's divorced from their actual concerns and priorities, and they can foresee the damage it will inflict.

The Biden administration's reconciliation bill will hasten our fiscal decline and seriously hamstring economic productivity.

Congress approved a temporary spending measure just hours before funding for most federal agencies would have been cut off.

Other top Democrats said they were in the dark about the "framework" of the deal.

House Democratic leadership, under pressure from its "progressive" wing, removed funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.

The spending package includes funding to raise the government's debt limit, which the treasury secretary said is crucial to avoid a historic financial crisis.

In the next few weeks, Republicans will have an opportunity to rebrand the Democrats as big-government socialists.