Economist and author David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss Steve Bannon’s departure from the White House, which Goldman described as “disappointing.”
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday to review President Trump’s trip to Europe and the reaction of European leaders and the press.
Vice President Mike Pence is defending the short-term budget deal Republicans negotiated with Democrats as “a clear win for the American people.”
On Monday, Congress unveiled a $1 trillion spending bill for 2017 that would boost defense spending by $16.3 billion more than requested by the last administration, a $19.9 billion increase from last year.
President Donald Trump released his budget blueprint on Thursday, an effort to prioritize safety and security for the American people while dramatically cutting other agencies considered sacred cows by the left.
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump touted his military budget and the eliminate of the defense sequester, saying, “We must give our sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines, and coastguardsmen the tools, equipment, resources and training they need to get the job
During an interview aired on Thursday’s “Hannity,” on the Fox News Channel, President Donald Trump said, “a balanced budget is fine, but sometimes you have to fuel the well in order to really get the economy going. And we have
Barack Obama is threatening to veto the NDAA over the Russell Amendment, a measure that simply restates what is currently law in the United States because of the First Amendment.
Israel’s economy is performing better than previously expected, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported Thursday, updating its annualized growth projection for 2016.
A Brussels-based European affairs weekly newspaper has reported “common ground” between the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and presumptive Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, noting both men believe U.S. spending on the military alliance is “unsustainable”. At an
Republican presidential candidates Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio sparred over immigration, and accused each other of changing positions during Thursday’s GOP primetime debate on the Fox Business Network. Rubio was asked, [relevant exchange begins around 6:14] “The
Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to reverse the cuts from President Barack Obama’s sequestration plan, which the president fled from in a panic after it failed to intimidate Republicans, and once automatic cuts to domestic spending went into effect as well.
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.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke exclusively with Breitbart News on Wednesday, calling for presidential candidates, the RNC, and every House and Senate member to stand firm in support of the national defense spending bill, despite President Obama’s threat to veto over his social program funding demands. Gingrich called on all Republicans to drive home that the President is trying to “blackmail the Congress, using American men and women in uniform as hostages.”
Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said “the people in my party who are saying don’t talk to Putin, have a no-fly zone, be prepared to use force against Russia, that’s all very scary to me, and the
GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio is missing another vote, this time just days after he said he wouldn’t miss any with “major national significance,” according to CNN. The Floridian has missed the most votes of any senator currently running for president.
The Japanese Defense Ministry has requested its largest budget ever, a 2.2 percent raise following three years of steady increases, driven by concerns over Chinese expansion in the South China Sea.
Coming defence cuts will reduce the number of combat aircraft in the Royal Air Force to the lowest level ever, despite the government looking to expand military deployment to Syria. Significant cuts to the present fleets of jet fighters and the significantly
Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon’s speech at the Royal United Services Institute Land Warfare conference yesterday took an unexpected turn as he sidetracked from the important subject of Army cuts onto PC quotas and minorities in the forces. Speaking
The UK Telegraph reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron “has refused to meet demands by Barack Obama that Britain commits to spending 2 per cent of its national income on defense for the next five years.”
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, currently preparing for a second presidential campaign, had a hard-hitting op-ed in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Friday, with a sharp critique of America’s current foreign policy aimed not just at President Barack Obama, but at Congressional leaders from both parties.
Normally quarrelsome House Republicans came together Wednesday night and passed a boldly conservative budget that relies on nearly $5 trillion in cuts to eliminate deficits over the next decade, calls for repealing the health care law and envisions transformations of the tax code and Medicare.
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
From Josh Zumbrun at the Wall Street Journal: The U.S. has come a long way since the days of trillion-dollar deficits, just a few years ago. The White House projects 2016 will have the smallest budget deficit in eight years.
