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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…

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…

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…

How can a health insurance plan offer increased benefits from one year to the next while simultaneously lowering premiums? Simple: Taxpayers pay the difference. Such are the results from the “premium stabilization demonstration” — read:…