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Should We Cut Defense Spending? Actually, that’s the Wrong Question.
“It’s not just about cutting. It’s about doing the work to make smarter choices.â€
Tagged Budget
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America’s Skyrocketing Debt: Real Problem, or Just A Republican Excuse to Oppose Everything?
Over the course of 2020, the federal government spent a massive amount trying to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic. Republicans and Democrats agreed that in the face of crisis, America needed to put the fire out first, worry about all the water they were using later. But in 2021, people are beginning…
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It’s a Trap! Is Using Reconciliation to Pass the Dem Agenda a Giant Mistake?
The Senate is about to use a trick called “reconciliation†to pass Joe Biden’s Covid relief bill. Many Democrats want to go further and use this arcane rule to pass all kinds of policies that would never otherwise make it through – a rise in the minimum wage, climate policies, infrastructure, etc. But Tori Gorman, a…
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Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Budget
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning that President Donald Trump has told lawmakers in Congress that he will allow the federal government to shut down before signing a spending bill like the one that he signed into law in March. A budget battle that tears apart the Republican Party is undoubtedly good news…
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Trump’s military parade could cost up to $30 million: budget chief
The military parade that President Donald Trump wants to stage, likely in Washington, would cost U.S. taxpayers up to $30 million, the White House budget chief said on Wednesday in remarks on the administration’s fiscal 2019 spending plan.
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Senate adjourns till 12:01 a.m. EST without approving budget deal
The U.S. Senate adjourned on Thursday until 12:01 a.m. EST (0500 GMT) without approving a budget deal. The current temporary measure funding the U.S. government expires at midnight.
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Democrats Obliterate Rand Paul For Holding Government Hostage Over Phony Deficit Concerns
What’s obvious is that Republicans don’t truly care about the deficit – they never have. Instead, they use it as a political football to get some cable news coverage or boost their poll numbers in an election year.
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House speaker: May need a temporary bill to fund government past Dec. 8
U.S. lawmakers may have to pass another stop-gap spending bill in order to keep the federal government operating Dec. 8 when existing money runs out, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Tuesday.
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Republican Retreat: GOP Abandons Border Wall And Planned Parenthood Fight After Trumpcare Loss
- Donald Trump, Featured News, Paul Ryan, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
The colossal failure of Donald Trump and Republicans to agree on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is already having wide-ranging effects.
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Trump Eliminates Climate Funding Just As Concern About The Environment Hits Record High
Americans are more worried about the environment than they ever have been – just in time for Trump to gut climate funding.
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Republicans In Chaos As Failed Speaker Paul Ryan Can’t Get Conservatives To Pass Budget
It turns out that Ryan is also failing, and failing big time, when it comes to even the smallest of efforts to pass a budget and restore some semblance of an image that the House is doing its job. After weeks of delay, with a looming April 15 deadline, Ryan is looking at a fractured House hijacked by extremists who are dismantling the normal course of business yet again.
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Obama Saves America From Republican Failure By Bringing Deficit Below 50 Year Average
The CBO put the deficit for the just ended fiscal year at 2.4% of GDP, below 50-year average.
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A Tea Party Fascist Will Be Second In Line To the Presidency By Halloween
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
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Republicans Prove They Can’t Govern As Military Funding Bill Collapses Into Chaos
The ghosts of chaos past are haunting the House as Republicans are desperately trying to navigate around their own sequestration level spending caps in order to appease the war hawks in their party.
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President Obama Sends A Strong Signal That He Will Veto The Republican Budget
House Republicans saw their budget dreams go up in smoke as President Obama is already signaling that he will veto the unpopular, but freshly passed House budget.
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Americans Will Pay For Republican-lite Democrats’ Compromise “At All Costs”
Whatever the reason, the so-called compromise appropriations bill is an affront to the American people, and revealed that many Democrats are what Howard Dean labeled “Republican-lite.”
Republicans May Cause Government Shutdown Over Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program
Republicans are going for the full monty of childish behavior. Gone are the real policy complaints. Now they stand naked before the nation demanding cuts to Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch program.
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John Boehner’s Outburst at Conservative Groups Was Completely Phony
Boehner’s phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an ounce of truth or credibility.
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It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement
it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan’s face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising to agree that an austerity budget defying sane economic comprehension.
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Americans Are About to Discover That the GOP Not the ACA is Hazardous To Their Health
Americans will discover in the next week the only hazard to their health is Republicans on a crusade to see which faction can cause the most damage to the people and the nation.
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Obamacare Lies Dealt a Death Blow By Study that Finds Full Time Job Growth Expected
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
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McCain Shoots Boehner’s Argument Out of the Water by Urging GOP to Raise Revenue
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) praised President Obama for reaching across the aisle and said Republicans should compromise on the budget by increasing tax revenues.
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Paul Ryan Admits That His Entire Budget is Based on a Lie
Paul Ryan admitted that his budget is based on the lie that Obamacare adds to the deficit, and without it being repealed, his budget doesn’t work.
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House Republicans Congratulate Themselves On Killing a Million Jobs
Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year of a ten year plan, about a million Americans will lose their jobs.
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Unhinged Republicans Completely Abandon Reality With Latest Sequester Lies
Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that they are blatantly lying and revising the historical record of the past four years.
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The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America
Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines them as criminals, enemies of the state and the American people.
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Republican Jon Huntsman Says We Need to Fix Tax Loopholes In Order to Grow
Huntsman broke with the Republican Party on the economy, saying we need to curtail tax loopholes in order to generate revenue.
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While Leading the Laziest House in History, John Boehner Tells Obama To Do His Job
John Boehner leads one half of the most unproductive Congress in history; yet, today he told President Obama to do his job.
