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President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2020 aims to cut all funding for PBS and NPR, along with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Appropriations Committee member and Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) stated that Democrats will have to compromise on border wall funding and “It will get done.” Co-host Sandra

During a speech before the International Association of Fire Fighters on Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Trump’s budget and said it is asking the middle class to pay for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. Biden said, “I

On Monday’s “MSNBC Live,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said there’s “very little support, on either end of the Capitol, or either party, for the kind of spending levels, on non-defense discretionary spending, that the president’s proposing.” Yarmuth

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Voight are briefing reporters on the Trump administration 2020 budget Monday at 2:00 p.m.

Amazon finally caved to pressure for a company-wide $15 minimum wage in November. At Whole Foods, the difference looks to be made up in cuts to scheduled hours.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is blaming President Trump for his state’s $2.3 billion budget shortfall.

ROME (AP) — After a raucous marathon session, the Italian Senate early Sunday approved a national budget law that was tweaked after the European Union objected to plans by Italy’s populist government to satisfy expensive campaign promises with a large deficit.

President Donald Trump reasserted his position Thursday that any bill funding the government must include more money for border security.

A 50 pence coin designed to commemorate the UK’s historic exit from the European Union (EU) and retaking of national sovereignty will be issued next year.

Threats by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip ‘Remainer Phil’ Hammond to scrap today’s austerity-busting budget in the event of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit have been slapped down by the Prime Minister, insisting all spending commitments will be funded whatever happens.

The Remain-supporting Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has threatened that a no-deal Brexit would result in more austerity, putting pressure on Tory Eurosceptics to back the Prime Minister’s unpopular soft Brexit Chequers plan.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned that there is no “plan B” for Italy following the European Commission’s unprecedented rejection of the Italian budget.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would ask each member of his cabinet to cut five percent from their annual agency budgets.

Retiring Rep. Darrel Issa was nominated Wednesday to head a trade agency that a 2017 Trump administration budget blueprint wanted eliminated.

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

Senator David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News Sunday in an exclusive interview that President Donald Trump will probably not sign another spending bill that does not include funding for his proposed southern border wall.

Senator David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News Sunday in an exclusive interview that the state of America’s financial affairs is “desperate.”

President Donald Trump endorsed the idea that the Senate should not get an August break if they failed to move a funding bill foward.

The White House and House Republicans reportedly have discussed whether to use an arcane budget rule to cut spending passed through the omnibus spending bill.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

It happened again. Congress let a funding debate come down to the last minute. And once again, Democrats won.

The NRA issued a statement pointing out that more companies are ready and willing to step in and partner with law-abiding gun owners. 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — President Donald Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney wants Americans to know that the federal government has changed under the Trump administration.

Nobody seems to agree on how much the federal government should actually spend, nor do folks agree on how much the deficit-ridden feds can actually pay for any new infrastructure.

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney admitted during a Monday evening White House press briefing that the administration’s proposed budget does not balance within ten years, pointing rather to a turn in the “tide.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) stated that the budget passed by Congress last week is the worst legislation he’s voted on in his time in Congress and no other bill is close. Brooks said, “Do

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) joined Breitbart News Saturday SiriusXM hosts Matt Boyle and Amanda House to discuss DACA, amnesty, and the pending budget deal.

Democrats are “winning the narrative” and “winning their priorities” in Capitol Hill spending deals despite congressional GOP majorities and a Republican president, said Tom Van Flein, current chief of staff for Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “everyone’s a hypocrite” on deficits and the Republican Party is “an identity party, not an economic party, right now.” Brooks stated,  “What strikes me as special about this is that

The White House budget will be released on Monday, despite Congress currently negotiating a two year spending agreement. The White House plans to request $3 billion in funding for President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall on the Southern border.

During a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated people should have to answer why they were against running deficits under President Obama but support deficits under Republican presidents. Rand said, “I want people to

“The Budget Agreement today is so important for our great Military,” he wrote on Twitter. “It ends the dangerous sequester and gives Secretary Mattis what he needs to keep America Great.”