Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants on American soil, citing it as a “magnet for illegal immigration.”
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed in a new report on Wednesday that Obamacare premiums will spike premiums by 15 percent next year.
The United States Treasury Department revealed new estimates last week that show the country set to double borrowing in the current fiscal year, a total $995 billion that would nearly double last fiscal year’s $519 billion.
A story by Southern California Public Radio station KPCC last week appeared to admit that President Donald Trump’s $1.5 billion tax reform is best for middle and lower income households.
At least nearly one in seven illegal aliens shielded from deportation by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would end up on Medicaid if they were given amnesty, a government report states.
Senator Tom Cotton deserves credit for bringing Republicans around to a daring, controversial, and politically brilliant idea: repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate through the Republican tax overhaul.
Rand Paul Tuesday took up President Donald Trump’s challenge to Republicans to include the repeal of the Obamacare individual-mandate in their tax overhaul legislation.
The Republican tax bill under consideration on Capitol Hill would add $1.7 trillion to budget deficits over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said.
Food stamp usage has declined every month since President Trump took office in January, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on food stamp enrollment.
The director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is defending his agency as a bastion of unbiased “nonpartisanship” in light of criticism by members of Congress, financial media, and some physicians about the accuracy of its analyses of Obamacare and Republican proposals to repeal it.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said his vote Friday against “skinny repeal” of Obamacare was a vote for bipartisanship. In fact, it was the opposite, rewarding Democrats for passing Obamacare without working with Republicans in the first place.
Efforts by Republican lawmakers to repeal the Affordable Care Act in recent months have repeatedly collapsed after the Congressional Budget Office scored the various bills using a closely guarded analytic process done entirely behind closed doors.
As the GOP’s Senate healthcare reform bill struggles to gain momentum, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) punting a vote beyond his previously stated July 4 deadline due to a lack of support, it seems the public is even less enthused than Republican lawmakers.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Representative Francis Rooney (R-FL) pushed back against some of the Congressional Budget Office’s negative assessments of the Senate GOP healthcare bill by stating the CBO is “nothing but a bunch of voodoo economics.”
Senate Republicans continue to draft a health care bill. Here are a few key planks of the evolving legislation.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke at Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) fundraiser, urging lawmakers to repeal and replace Obamacare.
President Trump’s economic team paints a rosier picture about what his policies could accomplish than the economics profession is willing to endorse.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on May 16 to hire a consultant to develop a plan for how to deal with the loss of $7.6 billion a year if Obamacare is repealed.
President Trump during his campaign repeatedly promised to rebuild the military and increase defense spending. About a hundred days in, not much has happened yet.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Friday that the centerpiece of the Republican’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is a massive tax cut for rich people.
Cliff Sims, special assistant to President Trump, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday about the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) release on the American Health Care Act.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” OMB Director Mick Mulvaney stated that the CBO is “really good at counting numbers,” but took issue with their report on the American Health Care Act, stating, “I don’t believe the facts are
The two leaders of Capitol Hill Democrats told reporters Monday they welcomed the scoring report from the Congressional Budget Office, which predicts that the American Health Care Act bill crafted and supported by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) will leave more Americans without health insurance.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Speaker Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated he was “pretty encouraged” by the CBO report on the American Health Care Act, although “I think they sort of overestimate the uninsured
Analysis from the Brookings Institution says that 15 million people could lose coverage under Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was turned away Thursday as he attempted to enter Room H-157 in the Capitol to read Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) so-called Obamacare secret draft.
At the third presidential debate, Donald Trump spoke of partial-birth abortions ripping babies apart.
The federal government will fund its 2016 spending promises by borrowing another $590 billion — one-third more than its $450 billion deficit last year — further raising the national debt, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns this week that U.S. debt will hit 141 percent of GDP in the next 30 years as America taxes itself into poverty.
The Freedom Partners Institute, a right-leaning nonprofit organization, argues the CBO’s projections “fail to take the complete economic forecast into account” by not including intra-governmental debt, that is, money owed to trust funds like Social Security and Medicare.
Expected double-digit Obamacare health insurance premium hikes coming just one week before the November 7 election are expected to drag the program’s favorability ratings to new lows, as support from independents and Democrats continues to fade.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), out of the 38 million young men in the U.S. in 2014, 16 percent were jobless (5 million or 13 percent) or incarcerated (1 million or 3 percent). The share of young men without a job or in prison has increased substantially since 1980, when just 11 percent of young men fit into either category.
Contents: Britain’s NHS facing massive strike from ‘junior doctors’; Britain’s NHS financial crisis is being tied to the ‘Brexit’ debate; Obama administration tries to stop Obamacare death spiral
After surveying the latest Congressional Budget Office numbers, Jeffrey Anderson of the Weekly Standard restates what should be obvious to everyone by now: “ObamaCare is basically an expensive Medicaid expansion coupled with 2,400 pages of liberty-sapping mandates.”
ObamaCare: we’re forced to buy it at gunpoint, other people are forced to pick up part of the tab at gunpoint, and they still can’t get enough suckers to buy it.
Don’t believe any of the hype about how congressional spreadsheet wizards supposedly “fixed” the budget in new budget deal.
From Josh Zumbrun at the Wall Street Journal: The U.S. has come a long way since the days of trillion-dollar deficits, just a few years ago. The White House projects 2016 will have the smallest budget deficit in eight years.
A British newspaper is doing the math and explaining exactly what ObamaCare is likely to cost American taxpayers over the next 10 years. The human costs, of course, are incalculable but much higher.