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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.

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.

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 logistical arm of the Department of Defense (DOD) has improperly documented hundreds of millions in spending on everything from construction projects to computers.

The White House changed its voicemail message to blame congressional Democrats for failing to pass a budget over partisan squabbles on immigration.

President Donald Trump praised Republicans for fighting to keep the government open but suggested that they end the Senate rule requiring 60 votes to pass a budget.

186 House Democrats voted against keeping the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funded for the next six years as they opposed a stopgap spending measure in the House of Representatives Thursday that would keep the government open for the next four weeks.

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday blasted Democrats for refusing to pass a 2018 government spending bill that does not include a DACA fix.

Republicans will destroy their base of political support if they help pass a “crappy” amnesty bill, said Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) on Wednesday.

Democrats have successfully blocked the government’s 2018 budget for another month, giving them more time to exhaust and frustrate President Donald Trump and GOP leaders into accepting the Democrats’ game-winning amnesty for millions of illegals.

Troops will not receive a paycheck this Friday if Congress fails to pass a budget or another short-term spending measure by then, according to the Pentagon.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, faced with a slim 51-vote majority in the upper chamber of Congress, is reportedly mulling forgoing a budget altogether in 2018, a new report from Politico suggests.

Democratic leaders are holding the 2018 federal budget hostage to their demand for a cheap-labor amnesty — but are also obscuring their very unpopular demand behind a barrage of subsidiary demands, according to GOP politicians.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that Democrats don’t want a shutdown and the ball is in Congressional Republicans’ court if they want a shutdown. Transcript (via FedNews) as Follows: “Hi, I’m U.S. Senator Chris Coons,

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares asked federal taxpayers to pay $94 billion towards the island’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, then reportedly spent $100 million on Christmas bonuses for the territory’s government employees.

With his position in Cabinet reportedly on the line, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has delivered an Autumn Budget which he claims will prepare Britain for Brexit.

“I hope the Fake News Media keeps talking about Wacky Congresswoman Wilson in that she, as a representative, is killing the Democrat Party!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated the Republican budget and tax plan is “the most destructive and unfair” in modern American history. Sanders said, “President Trump and his Republican colleagues are now pushing the most destructive

President Donald Trump sat down for dinner with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday night to discuss a packed list of fall legislative goals.

By showing he can deal with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump may have found the one way of making Republicans unite.

California could soon be the first U.S. state to impose a “robot tax” to mitigate the economic effects of the replacement of factory workers by machines — if one San Francisco Democrat gets her way.

August 7 marks President Donald Trump’s second 100 days in office. They were just as intense as the first 100, if not more so. Here are 15 highlights (and lowlights).

Speaking at a rally with the American Federation of Teachers and other left-wing activists who oppose the House’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and the GOP-proposed budget, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the budget’s funding for the U.S. military leads to violence.

House Republicans released their budget plans on Tuesday that would overhaul the tax code and slash government spending.

The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell argues that if President Donald Trump wants to “win big league” on his upcoming budget battle, he should learn from Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage’s budget victory.

President Donald Trump ran for office saying that the federal government spends too much. And now, with his own budget, he is leading the way by cutting spending in the White House and saving the American taxpayers a projected $22 million.

Jason Savage, the executive director of the Maine GOP, told Breitbart News, “It’s only when the Democrats have a shutdown that they start to get sober about Maine’s fiscal reality.”

Even as he serves his last days in Congress after announcing his retirement, Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz is calling for the government to give another $2,500 per month to each member of Congress to help them with housing costs.

Republicans in Congress, having largely failed to enact any big money items of the agenda on which they were elected, are reportedly considering scrapping the August recess in an effort to pass some parts of their agenda.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to announce design finalists for his “big beautiful wall” soon.

Members of Congress angrily shredded President Trump at a Leftist think tank confab on Tuesday. “Mean,” “heartless,” and “immoral” were just some of the insults hurled at President Trump and his budget during the discussion at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

In California, after the state robs the taxpayers of their last pennies, apparently more money just falls out of the sky. That must be the conclusion reached by a California state senate committee that passed a $400 billion universal healthcare proposal Thursday