Budget

In her campaign’s “New Way Forward” policy document, Kamala Harris claimed she “will not let Trump and his allies take away the Social Security and Medicare benefits that seniors have earned.” But Harris’ claims suffer from multiple…

The cliché holds that a picture is worth a thousand words. But a recent chart from the Congressional Budget Office is worth nearly 2,000,000,000,000 (that’s two trillion) words. It illustrates the size of the budget deficits Washington…

Democrats appear to be panicking over Speaker Mike Johnson’s reported plan to link a provision requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration to a government funding bill. On Thursday, The New York Times took to distorting the facts…

Lest anyone think the gusher of federal spending ended with the Covid pandemic, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demonstrates otherwise. The analysis shows the true motivation behind the supposedly “temporary”…

All but five Democrats voted in July against the Republican-led Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. But Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly giving…

Whither supply-side economics? Given debates since 2016 about the meaning of conservatism, those on the right might wish to assess whether and to what extent a philosophy that rose with Ronald Reagan remains relevant nearly half a century…

Metrolinx, the entity whose approach to completing the Eglinton LRT is most accurately comparable to George R.R. Martin’s approach to finishing the A Song Of Ice And Fire books, has raised eyebrows for it’s costs in recent weeks. These…

Even though the calendar still reads 2024, many observers in Washington have begun planning for 2025. Regardless of who wins control of Congress in November’s elections, the decisions lawmakers make in the year ahead will have a major…

On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit the Biden regime’s censorship of Americans via social media, 104 Republicans voted to keep a raise for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — which has been described as…

Just when you think things couldn’t get worse on the fiscal front, Washington once again manages to exceed expectations. One couldn’t help but get that impression from the latest update to the nation’s (poor) budget situation. The…