Federal Budget

The Beautiful Bill In the Senate

In case you are wondering, the Big Beautiful Bill is working its way through the Senate. I assume that it will pass, in some version, because if it doesn’t we will see the biggest tax increase in American history on January…

Taxpayer-Supported Diet?

An epic Twitter misfire from the office of Amy Klobuchar: If my social media team did this to me, I’d throw a stapler at them. https://t.co/xyEZYkTNfy — tedfrank (@tedfrank) June 12, 2025 Take her food away? Well,…

More Budget Cuts Are Coming

There has been a lot of confusion about the “big beautiful bill,” with many understandably having the impression that it is the whole story with regard to federal spending and, specifically, budget cuts. Happily, that is not…