GOP legislators in Congress want to revive the use of spending ‘earmarks’ which help leaders and legislators trade votes in exchange for pork-barrel spending in their districts, says a report from the Heritage Foundation.
AUSTIN, Texas — Local firefighters are pushing back against a lawsuit alleging they are spending a significant amount of time engaging in union activities when they should be answering calls.
Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) spoke to Breitbart News Daily Tuesday, offering a look ahead at the lame-duck budget battle, which could include another government shutdown drama.
The City of New York faces a $3.8 billion budget shortfall by 2019, but city hall has launched a $265,000 tax-funded ad campaign to push transgender bathrooms on the city’s residents.
A new report on the state of the public school systems in Obama’s home state of Illinois finds they are $20 billion in debt with no end in sight to the growing budget failure. According to a new review by
The Department of Justice has announced that 12 current and former Detroit public school principals, one school supply vendor, and one administrator have been indicted for engaging in a scheme worth one million dollars in bribes and kickbacks.
LONDON (Reuters) – Chancellor George Osborne faced the prospect on Friday of a politically damaging and financially costly U-turn as dissent within his ruling Conservative Party grew over his plans to cut disability benefits. Osborne is seen as a contender
The government’s economic projections for the UK, as laid out in yesterday’s Budget, are based on levels of immigration which directly contradict their “promise” to bring migrant numbers down to the “tens of thousands”. The revelation will stoke suspicions that
UK Chancellor George Osborne has used his latest budget to declare war on free markets and consumer choice – in the guise of protecting vulnerable souls from the deadly threat of fizzy drinks. Note the weasel justification that this will “encourage
GOP legislators in the conservative House Freedom Caucus are calling for changes to the budgeting plan being pushed by the GOP leadership, likely creating another headache for embattled House Speaker Paul Ryan.
“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin argued that President Obama’s proposed budget “is not small” and would add $62 billion to the deficit according to the White House’s own numbers on Friday. McLaughlin said, “Coming in at $4.1 trillion and bringing
President Obama is out with his final budget to Congress today, which proposes to spend $4.1 trillion in the next fiscal year.
Illinois still doesn’t have a budget, the state has practically defaulted on millions in payments to service providers, can’t even pay its lottery winners, but state Democrats have introduced a bill that would make Barack Obama’s birthday a “state holiday” — meaning state workers would have yet another paid holiday added to their generous benefits.
The December $1.8 trillion tax and spending deals, negotiated by House Speaker Paul Ryan, increased the federal government’s deficit by $130 billion, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
Orange County’s Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) took a symbolic stand against big government spending in voting against the recent omnibus bill–despite the fact that one of his own amendments was included in it.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is coming under withering criticism from conservatives for passing a massive new budget that funds the government through next September–and avoids a government “shutdown.”
The House passed legislation on Friday to prevent a government shutdown. The continuing resolution will give lawmakers an extension until the middle of next week to pass the appropriations spending bill.
Several congressional aides have confirmed to Breitbart News that a rumor of a temporary extension until after Christmas is floating around Congress.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells reporters he expects a healthy debate about funding Planned Parenthood, but would not say whether or not Republicans intend to insist on defunding the abortion organization.
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) touts itself as “dedicated exclusively” to amateur sports, but a new investigation shows that the amateurs are floating some awfully big-league paychecks for the union’s officials, including a million-dollar golden parachute to a former president.
Senate Democrats plan to filibuster the legislation passed by the House on Thursday that seeks to pause the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
As the city of Baltimore continues to deal with the aftermath of the tens of millions in damage caused by this summer’s riots, the city has been hit with a $75 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, a report says.
Republicans in Congress say they won’t back down from a fight over the budget and will make sure conservative policies are put in place, despite warnings from Democrats that they will reject the bill and shut down the government.
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says she’s against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal that was recently made public.
John McCain is taking heat back home for voting yes on the massive budget and debt limit suspension bill passed around 3 a.m. Friday morning.
On Thursday’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on the Fox Business Network, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) took aim at Speaker-Elect Paul Ryan (R-WI) for not signaling he will do more to overturn what he deemed to be a
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) tore into the congressional budget deal on the Senate floor, arguing it is being jammed through without sufficient acknowledgment of its serious flaws.
President Obama has endorsed the budget plan proposed by Speaker John Boehner, according to White House aides, as the troubled Speaker prepares to retire from the House of Representatives. “We believe this a budget framework that meets the president’s vision,”
Paul Ryan’s previous criticism of the deal to his Republican colleagues was quite pointed, including a declaration that the process “stinks.” But now he expresses optimism that the deal will include “meaningful reforms to strengthen our safety net programs, including significant changes to bolster Social Security,” and fund the military, as well as providing an opportunity to “return to regular order in our budget process.” His evaluation has been upgraded from stinky to “some good, some bad, and some ugly.”
The secret, top-level process used to create the federal budget for 2016 and 2017 really “stinks,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is likely to replace Rep. John Boehner as House Speaker this week. But he did not promise to vote against the $8 trillion plan.
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is silent and offering no opinion on legislation currently being crafted in Washington, D.C., back rooms that would raise the debt ceiling and bind Congress to a multi-year budget deal
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich discussed his taxation, budgeting, and regulatory plans on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Kasich said, “we have a legitimate plan, that freezes the non-defense discretionary, does put more money into defense
White House press secretary Josh Earnest consistently vows that President Obama would veto a bill from House Republicans that fully defunds Planned Parenthood. But he remained open to the idea that Obama might sign a bill that partially defunds the abortion corporation.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump thinks Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is “a very nice guy,” but “far from [his] first choice” to be the next Speaker of the House.
The pending Republican move to defund Planned Parenthood will depend on four GOP Senators who are facing tough swing-state elections in 2016, and who must decide whether to alienate feminist or pro-life groups.
Saturday in his weekly address, President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a long-term budget agreement saying, “I will not sign another shortsighted, short-term spending bill,” which sets up a deadline for the budget negotiations of Dec. 11. Transcript
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the priorities of Washington politicians as “pathetic and absolutely absurd” when asked about his reaction to the Planned Parenthood hearing on Tuesday.
In his Labor Day weekend video address, President Barack Obama the economic progress over the past five-and-a-half years and made a push for Congress to pass a new budget by month’s end. Transcript as follows: Hello, everybody. I hope most
The deadlock is almost an existential disagreement between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrat leadership in the state Legislature.
