Federal Budget

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal budget has the same sort of reliance on low interest rates that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had and this is especially a problem since “inflation is

Democrat President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget reveals he wants to increase “investment” in public housing 900 percent in one year. 

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Friday slammed President Joe Biden’s proposed budget, saying he has some “serious concerns.”

The Committee for a Responsible Budget released a report that claims Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt does more harm than good.

Trump was effusive about updates to the budget supporting the Special Olympics, and a return to space “in a BIG WAY.”

The U.S. Senate is considering an amendment to a spending bill to fund the federal government that could result in thousands of wild horses on federal land being euthanized.

In a Tuesday briefing on the new FY2018 Trump Administration budget, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney drove home the importance of assuming three percent growth for the American economy.

The House has approved a more than $1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September by a vote of 309 to 118.

Despite the budget cuts President Donald Trump has said he wants to federal programs that focus on climate change and other environmental issues, research in these areas is being funded in some parts of the proposed budget plan.

The House Rules Committee published its proposed $1 trillion budget at 12:47 a.m. on Monday, a massive 1,665-page plan that is 400 pages longer than the average bible. Not only are many of President Donald Trump’s budget priorities missing from the plan, but

The House of Representatives on Friday passed H.J. Resolution 99 on a 382 to 30 voice vote, which will fund most of the federal government for one week.

Community organizers from a Chicago-based group stormed the lobby of the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday in Washington, DC. holding up signs and middle fingers in protest over the budget blueprint the conservative think tank shared with President Donald Trump.

The head of the United States Air Force reaffirmed his testimony to Congress in March by saying that less than 50 percent of the force is prepared for “full-spectrum operations.”

Total apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border are up in March by twenty-eight percent above February. Of the overall total of 33,335 total captures on the southwest border in March, over 4,200 were unaccompanied alien children (UACs).

Interest rates on President Barack Obama’s federal debts will double over the next decade, forcing American taxpayers to spend $776 billion on extra interest payments by 2026, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.

President Obama’s proposed budget for 2017 halts reimbursement to state and county jails for housing, feeding, and providing the medical and mental health needs of criminal illegal aliens.

According to a study of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, conducted by the Cato Institute, compensation for federal workers is 78% higher on average than compensation for private sector employees.

“Federal civilian workers had an average wage of $84,153 in 2014, compared to an average in the private sector of $56,350,” according to the Cato review. “The federal advantage in overall compensation (wages plus benefits) is even greater. Federal compensation averaged $119,934 in 2014, which was 78 percent higher than the private-sector average of $67,246.”

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.