Exclusive — Rep. Thomas Massie: Most Lawmakers ‘Aren’t Serious About Cutting Spending’
Most lawmakers “aren’t serious about cutting spending,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Most lawmakers “aren’t serious about cutting spending,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
The White House on Thursday revealed the tax priorities that President Donald Trump detailed to Republican members of Congress, including no taxes on tips, overtime, or seniors’ social security.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that he won’t vote for a large reconciliation bill on the border, taxes, and energy if it includes an increase in the debt ceiling. Paul began
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) on Breitbart News Daily said that the Republican reconciliation bill can secure the border, unleash energy development, all the while slashing the deficit.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) stated that if Republicans opt to pass one big reconciliation bill, he believes the House will likely pass it by the end of
Republicans plan to use budgetary reconciliation to secure the border, cut taxes, and slash spending. Here’s how that works.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Columbia University Professor and economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs said that naming the reconciliation bill the “Inflation Reduction Act” is a “marketing tool” for a bill that “isn’t about inflation reduction.” And does “nothing real
The latest iteration of the Senate Democrats’ reconciliation bill, known as the “Inflation Reduction Act,” would raise taxes on thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across the country, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).
Senate Democrats have reached a deal with Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) to “move forward” with the Democrats’ $740 billion reconciliation bill, according to a statement Sinema released on Thursday evening.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) reacted to concerns that the corporate minimum tax in the reconciliation bill could harm manufacturing by stating that supporting the tax “is something our caucus has come together behind.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reacted to claims by the National Association of Manufacturers that the taxes in the reconciliation bill will hurt the manufacturing sector and reduce GDP and labor income by stating
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey stated that while the White House has not “crunched all the numbers” on the reconciliation bill yet, we know the bill “will reduce
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pushed for the Senate to bring the Build Back Better reconciliation bill to the floor for a vote and argued that if the bill fails, Democrats can say,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “were right to try to be FDR, try to do something big” with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. Brooks said that if the new inflation numbers in January
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Assistant Whip Brendan Boyle (D-PA) stated that he hopes the benefits in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill are extended beyond their duration as outlined in the original bill and he believes if that happens,
The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday demanded Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) support the initiative by some House and Senate Republicans to block a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, thereby withholding funds for enforcing the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in private businesses.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will reportedly jam the $1.9 trillion reconciliation package through the Senate in mid-December.
During an interview with CBS’ “The Takeout” podcast recorded on Tuesday and released on Friday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) stated that the version of the Build Back Better reconciliation bill that will ultimately pass will be “either fully paid for
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that the Build Back Better reconciliation bill will lower costs for things like child care and preschool and give tax cuts “to the working and middle class so
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” White House Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice stated that the most important thing “that we can do in the very near term that will have a real impact on the finances of
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, “we are trying to…break through this myth of the need for austerity and to make it clear
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said he is “much more comfortable” with the White House’s numbers on the Build Back Better reconciliation bill than the Congressional Budget Office’s numbers, and that the CBO’s
During an interview with Phoenix’s KTAR News 92.3’s “Arizona’s Morning News” on Thursday, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) defended the increase in energy taxes in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill by stating that the goal of the legislation is to reduce
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that the Build Back Better reconciliation bill will increase energy costs for low and middle-income families, “so that they can then go and give
Democrats are trying to sneak through an amnesty by claiming their “Build Back Better” bill only offers “temporary protection” for migrants, says an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
A new Harvard Caps/Harris Poll spells bad news for Biden, with an overwhelming number of Americans opposed to his much-touted spending plan.
The Democrats’ $1.7 trillion social-spending bill includes roughly $100 billion to accelerate immigration and to give welfare to the children of poor migrants.
The Democrats’ $1.7 trillion spending bill expands hiring discrimination against Americans by rewarding CEOs who hire foreign graduates, say experts on migration law.
Only 36 percent of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of negotiations on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, according to a Thursday Associated Press-NORC poll.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), heralded by President Biden as a master in passing radical agenda items, pretended Wednesday the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is “in pretty good shape.”
Construction CEOs in Arizona are pressuring Democratic Senators Krysten Sinema and Mark Kelly to back the Democrats’ wage-cutting amnesty in the pending reconciliation bill.
Amnesty advocates have staged a symbolic walkout from the White House because President Joe Biden’s deputies are being forced by the law and the polls to back away from their politically toxic open-borders goals.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) issued a warning about the Democrats’ “dangerous” spending bill.
After publicly urging Democrats to put a “pause” on President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending bill, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has reportedly said in private that he will only support a $1 trillion price tag.
President Joe Biden on Thursday fully endorsed the idea of putting amnesty for illegal immigrants into the multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill.
The Senate blocked Wednesday the legislative vehicle for the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Wednesday.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that the American people “revolted” against the Green New Deal and other far-left carveouts in the Democrats’ infrastructure bill.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested Tuesday some possible ways President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package could be bankrolled.