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Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should cut wasteful spending while increasing the debt limit, a CNN poll found Tuesday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Thursday that President Joe Biden would be responsible for “any default” on the nation’s $31.3 trillion debt after he “ignored this debt crisis for more than 100 days.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged everyone to “relax” as the nation could potentially default if the Biden administration refuses to agree with House Republicans on cutting the federal budget.

CLAIM: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during Tuesday’s press briefing that President Joe Biden tried to negotiate the federal budget “for months” with House Republicans through debt limit talks.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) responded to then-House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tying budget negotiations and debt ceiling negotiations together in 2019 by arguing that Republicans should just raise the debt limit. After

Then-Vice President Joe Biden boasted several times in 2011 about negotiating a debt limit standoff with Republicans — contrasting his current posture with House Republicans as president.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday it was bizarre that House Republicans want to rescind unobligated coronavirus aid funds to the Treasury Department.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly said Monday that he believes there are 218 votes to pass House Republicans’ forthcoming debt ceiling resolution, which he said contains measures to limit federal spending, save taxpayers’ money, and “grow the economy.”

Republican officials ridiculed President Joe Biden, accusing him of disseminating “misinformation” and creating a “total fabrication,” after he attacked “MAGA” House Republicans and claimed his budget is keeping the American borders “secure.”

President Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2024 adds nearly two billion dollars to the budget of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

The UK’s independent economic forecasting body says the country is to avoid technical recession this year and will grow in coming years.

Border advocates are blasting President Biden’s newly proposed budget, which they say will enable illegal immigration. 

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that while there are many

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) responded to President Joe Biden’s latest budget proposal, telling Breitbart News it’s the “wokest budget in history” as some of the federal tax dollars would be used to push leftist ideas “completely out of step with the needs of the American people.”

The conservative House Freedom Caucus introduced on Friday a list of demands to aggressively rein in government spending, saying the group needed its demands met before it would be willing to raise the national debt ceiling and prevent a potential default.

As self-defense gun sales and concealed carry continue to surge it seems appropriate to point out five 9mm pistols budget-conscious Americans can purchase for under $500.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that while he’s pleased to see President Joe Biden trying to change the fiscal trajectory, “I can’t tell you” that the $3 trillion in deficit reduction over the

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) stated that President Joe Biden’s budget proposal “is just aimed at continuing” the economic “success story” under the Biden presidency where “Inflation is going down.” Markey said, “President

President Joe Biden’s budget asks for more money to help deliver more legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants into the jobs and homes needed by Americans.

During portions of an interview with the Fox Business Network aired on Thursday’s edition of “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reacted to President Joe Biden’s budget proposal by stating that trying to pick winners and losers on

Biden’s budget envisions budget deficits as far as the eye can see.

The draft budget produced by this year’s session of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), includes $24.6 billion for “coronavirus control” — a rather extravagant sum given that Beijing suddenly dropped all of its “zero Covid” lockdown policies in December.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called out Democrats for refusing to negotiate “reasonable and responsible” spending reforms with Republicans on Thursday amid the debt ceiling stand-off.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday unveiled his budget proposal — the  “Framework for Freedom Budget” — which totals $114.8 billion and reportedly includes the use of unspent coronavirus relief funds.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis administration’s “Framework for Freedom Budget” includes $2 billion in tax relief, including both permanent and temporary sales tax holidays on a variety of items.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)  said on Fox Business Network’s “The Evening Edit” that both Republican and Democratic lawmakers’ proposals will not balance the budget.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) argued that there’s no way to cut government programs “and somehow not cut services because we’re going to only deal with the fat” and Republicans saying we should

The Biden administration plans to submit the presidential budget request to Congress on March 9, over a month late.

Republican Study Committee (RSC) members sent a letter to President Joe Biden to demand answers on whether his administration plans to submit the presidential budget request to Congress next week as the country is expected to hit its current debt limit soon.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated that Democrats should at least release an actual budget plan in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Jordan said, “We’ve got record spending, record inflation, record

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Thune (R-SD) argued that there need to be budgetary consequences for Congress failing to pass budget and appropriations bills and waiting until the end of the

Britain’s finance minister said that Britons must “face into the storm” as he announced a swath of new taxes and spending cuts, supposedly to shore up the nation’s finances while somehow still stimulating growth, as the country faces the prospect of the longest recession in recorded history.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) stated that the best way Congress can fix the economy is to get back to the regular appropriations process, argued that we have to take back COVID

‘Years’ of tax hikes are now on the cards as WEF-linked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attempts to shore up the UK’s floundering finances.

After backlash from politicians and the public, the European Union has abandoned plans to buy an $18 Million New York townhouse for its U.N. Ambassador.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held a fiscal strategy meeting at a university near Seoul on Thursday. Yoon said it was time to “wake up from the fantasy of fiscal universalism” and realize that unlimited government spending is not the way to nourish a healthy economy.