The Center for Renewing America launched on Friday a primer on the roughly $8 billion in earmarks in the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that Congress’s decision to bring back earmarks in the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill “opened the floodgates” of abuse.
During a portion of an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) stated that Democratic policies have “led to a 40-year high in inflation” but House Democrats are “still pouring more money
House Democrats passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill after hours of delay and Democrat confusion.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Wednesday a “heartbreaking” move to strip $15 billion in coronavirus aid from the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill.
More coronavirus aid funding and lack of policy proposals to address rising energy prices has made Republicans reluctant to support a $1.5 trillion omnibus bill to avert a government shutdown this week.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) said that he is “proud that Democrats negotiated an emergency coronavirus relief and omnibus package to save lives and livelihoods and crush the virus.” And that the agreement “is an important
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that a deal for “COVID-19 relief” valued at $900 billion was reached by congressional leadership.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News that the $3 trillion omnibus bill passed by the House on Friday essentially “federalizes elections” to end states’ voter ID requirements and prohibitions against ballot harvesting.
President Donald Trump pointed to a 10-foot security wall around the Obama’s “mansion/compound” as he called for a wall along the U.S. border Sunday.
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that President Donald Trump clearly stated he will never sign a “last-minute, massive omnibus spending bill again” and charged that the U.S. needs to build his proposed border wall.
The U.S. Senate is going to abandon the omnibus appropriations bill this year in favor of individual spending bills to fund the government, according to Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told host
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News Tuesday on Capitol Hill, discussing the successful push to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate’s August recess.
Just two days after conservatives held a press conference on Capitol Hill to launch a #MakeCongressWorkAgain campaign to put a spotlight on the Republican-led Senate’s short work week and its failure to get business done, Senators closed up shop at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday.
President Donald Trump sent Congress a proposal on Tuesday to rescind $15 billion in federal spending, not including omnibus spending – the largest rescission request in American history and the first since Bill Clinton was president.
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) held a press conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill to announce an effort to get the Senate to craft, debate, and pass a spending bill and confirm President Donald Trump’s 271 outstanding nominations before the scheduled August recess — or stay in Washington until the work gets done.
Hillary Clinton dismissed President Trump’s hesitance to back a $29.5 billion rail tunnel project as a “petty” political move Friday night at a real estate industry gathering in New York.
And what have they done? They surrendered without a fight. Any real advance, be it Gorsuch, regulatory relief, minimal border security, minimal tax cuts, or minimal changes in Obamacare — it’s all being driven by the White House. Congress has done nothing.
“I’ve been speaking with General Mattis. We’re going to be doing things militarily,” Trump said, adding, “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has avoided taking a visible role in the Trump administration since it took office last year, avoiding cameras and cable news shows.
Several reporters in Tuesday’s White House press briefing failed to get a detailed answer out of press secretary Sarah Sanders on whether President Trump is pursuing using defense department omnibus funds to build the promised southern border wall.
Breitbart News Senior Editor at Large Joel B. Pollak defended last week’s omnibus spending bill on Monday evening’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight.
The omnibus purposefully narrows the scope of what the president can do with the $1.6 billion—just 0.12 percent of the spending bill—included in the bill for border security.
President Donald Trump defended the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Sunday, arguing that it was a “downpayment” on his promised wall on the southern border.
Conservatives are understandably frustrated by the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law, under protest, on Friday. But the omnibus is not a disaster. In fact, Republicans scored many important wins.
Ann Coulter says the U.S. will, “in one generation,” become South Africa after President Trump signed off on Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill that does not include a single provision from the president’s 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that he didn’t read all of the omnibus bill, but his staff did, he read “a good part” of the bill, and “a large part of this bill, we
Democrats are spiking the ball after President Donald Trump accepted a 2018 budget bill which excludes his populist border-wall plan and is stuffed with Washington’s social and economic priorities. The press secretary for Democratic leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, used the budget defeat
President Donald Trump on Friday held a ceremony to sign the $1.3 trillion dollar omnibus budget, at the same time pledging never to sign such a bill again.
During a news conference at the White House on Friday, President Trump announced he will sign the omnibus bill, but won’t sign another bill like it again and called for Congress to give him a line-item veto and for the Senate to end the
The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate does not fund the 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that President Trump requested last year.
President Donald Trump announced a press availability at the White House on Friday to reveal his decision on the $1.3 trillion Omnibus spending bill.
While speaking to reporters on Friday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) reacted to President Trump’s statement that he is considering a veto of the omnibus bill by stating, “It’s like Art of the Deal-wrecker.” Kaine said, “It’s like Art of the
The omnibus spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate specifically bans President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from building new border walls and fencing with the prototype designs the president most recently visited.
The 2,232-page omnibus budget created by Democrats and business-first Republicans include a section on page 665 barring the administration from study or creating a “border crossing fee” to fund additional border- control programs.
Thirty-nine Democrats supported the bloated 2,232 spending bill while only 25 Senate Republicans voted for the bill. Independent Sen. Angus King also supported the bill.
It happened again. Congress let a funding debate come down to the last minute. And once again, Democrats won.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) stated that the omnibus bill “does have to be a wake-up call to people as to whether” the Republican Party “has lost its soul.” Corker said, “You
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered Overtime,” House Freedom Caucus member Scott Perry (R-PA) stated that no one could have read the omnibus bill before the House voted on it. Perry said, “[W]e get the bill, 2,232
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Freedom Caucus vice chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) slammed GOP leadership for allowing what is predicted to be the passage of a $1.3 trillion spending bill that does not include many of
