budget deficit
Senate Passes Big, Beautiful Bill in Tie-Breaking Vote
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a ten-year fiscal package which would serve as the vehicle for fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts and border…
GOP’s ‘current policy’ baseline is a gimmick that effectively kills the filibuster
Imagine that you're renting an apartment and the terms of the lease require paying your landlord $2,000 every month. Now, imagine that the lease expires at the end of this month. Here you sit, on July 1, with no lease…
Elon Musk promises creation of ‘America Party’ if Trump’s spending bill passes
Elon Musk promises new political party: Like Larry David opening up a spite store, so too will Elon Musk start a spite party if President Donald Trump's domestic policy bill passes. "If this insane spending bill…
Heritage Action Backs Passage of Senate Reconciliation Bill
Heritage Action, which has 2.5 million grassroots activists nationwide, came out swinging for the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill in a press statement released Monday. The group, one of the largest conservative…
Senate’s tax bill will add $270 billion to the deficit next year, despite gimmicks
In deciding whether to vote for the tax and spending package now sitting before the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) says he's been asking himself a simple question: Does the bill increase the federal deficit next year?…
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ lambasted by Rand Paul, Elon Musk
Domestic policy bill gets lambasted: "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" wrote Elon Musk on X, referring to the version drafted by…
Why do congressional Republicans support the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit?
President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" aims to avert the tax increases that would result from the expiration of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and it's drawn criticism for not doing enough to…
Trump’s military parade is a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars
President Donald Trump has described the upcoming military parade using a familiar theme: its size. It will be a "big, beautiful" event, he told NBC's Meet the Press last month. Beauty is in the eye of the…
Fiscal Hawk Outlines Strategy for Spending, Deficit Reduction
A few hours before a House vote on whether to defund foreign aid and public broadcasting, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., shared his thoughts on how a heavily indebted America can right its fiscal ship of…
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