Tag Archives: federal budget

Manchin Not Budging On Biden’s $3.5T Spending Plan

The Hill reports: Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key moderate Democrat, said on Sunday that he can’t support President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan. “We don’t have the need to rush into this and get it done within one week because there’s some deadline we’re meeting or someone’s going to fall through the cracks,” Manchin said on NBC’s “Meet the …

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Trump Unveils Budget With Trillion Dollar Deficit

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years. The growing deficits reflect, in great part, the impact of last year’s tax overhaul, …

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Trump Drops GOP’s Goal Of Balanced Budget

The Washington Post reports: President Trump is remaking the Republican economic playbook in his own image, abandoning ideological consistency in ­favor of a debt-busting strategy that will upend how Washington taxes and spends trillions of dollars each year. On Monday, Trump is slated to announce a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over the …

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Pat Robertson Slams Ted Cruz

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Matt Drudge Has The Budget Sadz

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Senate Approves Spending Bill

Via the Wall Street Journal: In a rare weekend session triggered by a conservative revolt against President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, the Senate on Saturday night passed a $1.1 trillion government spending bill, sending it to the president for his signature and ending the final budget fight of a Congress riven by them. Two days after intraparty divisions …

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T-Minus Six Hours

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Sarah Palin Warns Republicans

“When you cut through all the ‘inside baseball’ stuff in this Omnibus Spending Bill that’s in front of Congress, you’re left with two cold hard facts: this bill doesn’t defund Obama’s amnesty (so he gets to reward lawbreakers with your tax dollars) and it adds to our dangerous, unsustainable debt. Hey, if you thought we wanted more of the same …

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