Spending

Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded defeat on additional Ukraine spending Wednesday night after former President Donald Trump’s decisive victory in New Hampshire. Now the Republican Senate chief is blaming Trump, whom…

The outline of the spending agreement House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., cut with Democratic leaders sounds bad on its face. But the underlying reasons for that agreement seem far worse. As I wrote last week, “Speaker Johnson and Republican…

With “friends” like Mike Johnson, do conservatives really need enemies? That question, harsh as it sounds, should echo in the minds of individuals and groups who want to restrain Washington’s inflation-causing spending. The agreement House…

When the Georgia Legislature convenes on Monday, some may push to have the state follow North Carolina in implementing Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied adults. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported that…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a stunning blow this weekend when Republicans in the upper chamber disregarded his repeated calls for prioritizing Ukraine funding by passing the House GOP’s short-term spending bill, which…

Congress averted a government shutdown this weekend, agreeing to 45 days of funding to give members time to pass appropriations bills for the full year. Incredibly, Democrats seemed prepared to shut down the government over their desire for…

Certain areas of the U.S. Southern border reached a new level of crisis this week when thousands of illegal border crossers flooded into the U.S. daily, overwhelming border patrol. The sudden daily influx stunned underequipped regions like…

The ongoing debate over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2024 has revealed inconvenient truths that voters should know. The July 10 “Statement of Administration Policy” from the executive Office of Management and…

As it has often had to do over the past several years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report illustrating the fiscal problems looming dead ahead for the United States. Its most recent analysis, an annual report…

During the early stages of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees fled to the neighboring safe havens of Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia to escape violence in their homeland. But now that the war is entering its second…