Government Spending

President-elect Donald Trump is “totally against” the bloated omnibus bill representatives led by House Speaker Mike Johnson are trying to cram through the lower chamber to keep the federal bureaucracy funded through March 2025. In a joint…

Sometimes, official reports have a way of saying more than some in Washington want to hear. For instance, a group of Democrat lawmakers recently asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for additional information about the consequences…

Both in his first term and since the November election, Donald Trump has pointed to a rising stock market as an endorsement of his policies. He would be wise to keep his eyes focused on another key economic indicator. As the Federal Reserve…

Members of Congress may have decamped Washington to campaign for reelection, but in nondescript buildings near Capitol Hill, federal budget gnomes continue their work. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released two reports…

Last week, nearly all the House Democrats, along with 14 Republicans, voted against a stopgap bill that would have funded the government for another six months and included the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would…

After so many months of dithering, fumbling, and excuse-making, NASA finally announced it has a plan to bring back stranded astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore — next year. The two astronauts were originally supposed…

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…

For generations, the U.S. military has acted as a bulwark against hostile foreign actors threatening the American homeland. But what happens when the military hardware required to project that deterrence doesn’t work, is outdated, or…

After helping Democrats fund President Biden’s authoritarian regime for the rest of the year, House Speaker Mike Johnson is now gearing up to aimlessly dump more U.S. taxpayer money into Ukraine. During a Sunday interview on Fox News, the…

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill that includes dozens of left-wing earmarks but no Republican voters’ priorities.…