“There is something profoundly wrong,” Tucker Carlson said when discussing the latest actions of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who soured many conservative allies after initially offering a 1,547-page spending bonanza and ultimately handing the Democrats a win.
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that many Democrats try to make arguments that increasing spending saves money that “would make an accountant’s head explode” “because that’s all just theoretical B.S.” that “doesn’t work.” Smith
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is rushing a bill to the floor to extend spending levels enacted earlier this year over overwhelming Republican opposition
The bulk of the Farm Bill is funding for food stamps, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during an interview on Breitbart News Daily.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in uncharted waters and heading for the rocks.
If Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a “spine,” he would have offered a measure that slashed spending, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during an appearance on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.
Democrats “hold all the cards” on the spending deal battle as they have the legacy media on their side and some Democrat votes are needed for a CR to pass, Sen. Ron Johnson said.
Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly reopened lines of communication with Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries Friday morning after failing to usher through the spending deal endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump.
“We’ll cross that bridge” when we get there, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said when asked if he will support Johnson as Speaker.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly canceled his speaking slot at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest.
Repealing the Impoundment Control Act is key to allowing the President of the United States to curtail spending, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) said during a discussion on Breitbart News Daily, previewing his plans to reintroduce the measure in the next Congress.
The spending bill negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is full of “excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics,” Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said following the release of the controversial measure.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) says that he will not support Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the speakership vote in January following the monstrous spending bill released Tuesday evening.
The recently unveiled government funding bill “full of pork” shows that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “weak, weak man,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said.
Republicans are bristling at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over the 1,547-page spending deal released mere days ahead of the deadline, full of pork and disappointment.
President-elect Donald Trump won’t have to wait long to separate the wheat from the chaff, as multiple roadblocks lay ahead from establishment Republicans quick to claim allegiance to Trump while surreptitiously working against his America First agenda.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admitted that Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk was “right” about cutting government spending, referencing the Department of Defense’s budget and how it had “failed its 7th audit.”
There is strong support for DOGE, a McLaughlin & Associates survey taken on behalf of Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) found.
During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired on Monday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on budget analysis that her economic plan would add trillions to the deficit by stating that “the other
During an interview with CNN’s “Axe Files” podcast released on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the spending in the American Rescue Plan “added to the demand in areas that were supply-constrained, and so, may have played a little
Tiffany Henyard, the Dolton, Illinois, Democrat dubbed as “America’s worst mayor,” is again under fire for throwing an $85,000 taxpayer-funded party featuring performances from R&B singer Keke Wyatt and rapper J. Holiday — with barely anyone attending.
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk announced on Monday that he would be willing to serve in Donald Trump’s administration.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk pitched a “government efficiency commission” to cut government waste while speaking with former President Donald Trump on Monday, and offered to “help out” with such an endeavor.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden had a strategy to win the 2024 race of “use fiscal stimulus to really turbocharge the election, you get these working-class voters coming to your
During an interview with CNBC Europe on Tuesday, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari stated that right now, inflation is going sideways, we need “many more months of positive inflation data” to get one to two rate cuts and government
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” economist, President of Queens’ College, Allianz Chief Economic Adviser, and former Obama Global Development Council Chair Dr. Mohamed El-Erian said that it will be “very hard” to get inflation from
During an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that because interest rates are lower than they were in prior decades even with rate hikes, “we can probably manage and have a fiscally sustainable path with [a]
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari stated that stimulus spending was “a contributor to the high inflation that we’ve seen.” And “the spending on infrastructure, the spending on new chip
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated that it will be difficult to reach 2% inflation and one reason is “We have a trillion dollars of fiscal stimulus in the CHIPS Act, the
The Senate voted in the early hours of Saturday morning to pass a $1.2 trillion government funding bill, averting a government shutdown.
Lawmakers should not vote for the $1.2 trillion spending bill released in the dead of the night, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said on Thursday, warning that members of Congress have not even had the proper time to review it.
On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” White House Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young responded to a question on if President Joe Biden’s budget will require more government spending by stating that “this President, unlike many who talk about fiscal
The Federal Reserve’s plans to cut interest rates this year have run into a powerful headwind: excessive government spending.
House conservatives blocked a procedural rule vote in a protest vote against Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) spending deal he struck with Democrats.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that people have seen higher grocery prices “and that was one of the challenges of managing COVID.” And inflation “was both parties over four years to get out
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) shared his annual “Festivus” report Friday showing Americans how their tax dollars were wasted in 2023.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged that we do need to have a fiscally responsible path, especially since “the higher interest rate environment does pose additional challenges” but we don’t need offsets for Israel
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Quest Means Business,” Professor of Economics at Harvard University and former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Ken Rogoff said that while we’ve had tight monetary policy with extremely high interest rates, “our government spending fiscal
The House passed a continuing resolution Tuesday to extend spending levels from a lame duck session last December by Democratic House and Senate majorities into 2024.
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even though a lot of Democrats don’t like him, outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) saved the Biden administration and the Democratic Party by blocking proposals by the Biden
