The Pentagon will request $7.5 billion to fund America’s war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in 2017, marking a 50 percent increase in spending on the conflict this year, revealed Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
The $1.1 trillion federal budget deal boosts spending by 6 percent, extends about 50 expiring tax breaks, and funds an array of goodies meant to please both California Democrats and Republicans.
The new budget deal negotiated by outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner breaks the sequester caps to spend some $80 billion dollars, evenly divided between defense and domestic spending.
Following the stunning news that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) will resign after October, Democrats will feign empathy and argue that he was a victim of extremist Tea Party conservatives in the Republican caucus. In reality, Boehner is a victim of President Barack Obama’s aggressive brand of politics, for which he had no response.
President Obama urged Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank and pass a budget that doesn’t lock in the sequester during Saturday’s weekly address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Seven years after the worst economic crisis in generations, our economy continues
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) criticized Republicans in Congress because “they waved the white flag of retreat and surrender on amnesty. I worry they’re going to do the same thing on Obamacare” on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” When asked about
The White House announced Thursday morning that President Barack Obama wants Congress to “fully reverse” bipartisan sequester spending limits by boosting domestic and defense spending by $70 billion in an effort to “end the era of manufactured crises and mindless austerity.”
