budget
Why Passing ‘Big, Beautiful Bill‘ Won’t Be Easy
As Senate Republican leadership rushes to pass the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, the math to get to a GOP consensus in both houses of Congress has suddenly gotten much harder. The “big, beautiful bill,” a…
Trump Considers Giving Away Tesla Amid Musk Feud
President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk showed no sign of reconciliation Friday. Recent reports revealed that the president considered giving away his Tesla in response to Elon’s public attacks on Trump’s spending bill…
House-Senate Fight Over ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Get Ugly
After its passage by narrowest of margins in the House of Representatives, Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill is facing the prospect of major changes in the Senate, which could make it extremely…
Elon Built the DOGE Rocket and It’s Going to Keep Flying
Elon Musk has led the Department of Government Efficiency to incredible success in a mere four months, exposing hundreds of billions of dollars in government waste. However, with his tenure as a special government employee…
House Republicans Challenge Basis for CBO’s Deficit Forecast
The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’ scorekeeper on the fiscal impact of legislation, released a report Wednesday predicting a deficit increase if Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill is enacted.…
Belated Republican objections to the One Big Beautiful Bill ignore its fiscal irresponsibility
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the House of Representatives narrowly approved early in the morning on Thursday, May 22, lives up to its name in at least one respect: It is big, weighing in at 1,037 pages and nearly…
Fiscal Hawks in House Laud DOGE Cuts Package
The White House’s delivery to the House of Representatives of a package that would codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts into law was greeted with enthusiasm by the fiscally hawkish House Freedom…
It’s Rand Paul and Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump over the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The intra-Republican fight over the future of a major tax and borrowing bill intensified on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump lashed out and former White House favorite Elon Musk offered a sharp criticism of the proposal.…
Cut Spending Back to Pre-COVID Level, Wisconsin Senator Says
As a Republican holdout on the “big, beautiful” budget bill, as President Donald Trump calls it, Sen. Ron Johnson thinks he has a fairly simple request for the 10-year budget plan: Go back to the drawing board and cut…
Congress Can Save $1.16 Trillion by Returning to 2019 Budget Projection Levels
Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck in the rearview mirror. Only a few diehards cling…
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