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While the putative Department of Government Efficiency represents a first step in controlling federal spending, other initiatives by the Trump administration could unfortunately have the opposite effect. Witness recent comments by Commerce…

Even as the Trump administration focuses on making government efficient in ways it has not been in decades, lawmakers still can’t stop their spending habits. That’s the unfortunate takeaway from spending legislation House Republican leaders…

A study recently released by the AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, attempts to rebut claims by “critics” of Joe Biden’s Inflation (Reduction) Act (IRA) “that the law will lead to higher costs for enrollees.” It…

Hell hath no fury like big-government trough feeders facing budget cuts. Oh, how the piggies have pounced on President Donald Trump’s attempts to rein in out-of-control spending in a federal government with a morbidly obese deficit. …

After having already lived through a Trump presidency, Americans who aren’t hopelessly insane should recall a pattern: Donald Trump does something of little or no discernible consequence to your day-to-day life and the media react by…

Not enough Americans are taking adequate measures to cultivate better health, and those who are seem to expect novel medical injections to do the heavy lifting for them. A December YouGov survey found roughly 1 in 5 Americans have resolved…

If the incoming Trump administration is serious about controlling federal spending — and it should be — there’s an easy place to start: Within the Executive Branch itself. For years going on decades, presidents of both parties have used…

President Joe Biden has set the stage for an immediate showdown between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and pharmaceutical companies over the outgoing administration’s proposal to cover diabetes drugs for weight loss under federal insurance programs.…

With the Biden-Harris administration running the federal government as an extension of the Democratic National Committee, it’s no wonder that the Department of Health and Human Services pushed out what amounts to a pro-Kamala Harris…

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…